Hubby drawing

Posted on May 5, 2022May 8, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artist, Creative, Drawing, Painter, Photographer, printer, sculptor, Sketching2 Comments

We went out last weekend and I suggested that my hubby did a drawing while we were out. This was me looking back at him as he sat and drew. I think drawing helps calm you down. Takes your mind off things, helps you concentrate. I think people should take a pen or pencil and some paper out with them. Just look at something to draw, it could be a tree, a statue, a building, a flower. Look at what you are drawing and try and understand it. Try not to make it up but really look. I think everyone should learn art. The world needs Art and artists. Sculptors, photographers, printers. Those skills help coordination. That’s what I feel…..

Asia

Posted on May 5, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Prompt, Sketching, Thai, Thai temple, ThailandLeave a comment

At the Thai temple at King’s Bromley a couple of weeks ago. I thought this would be a good image to represent Asia. Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Asia. Felt pen drawing.

Scribbles

Posted on May 3, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Design, Drawing, Experiment, Exploring, Fun, Life, Scribbles, Sketching1 Comment

Hold four felt pens together and scribble curves and circles. Fill in the gaps you create with other colours. Another abstract experiment. Mark making is such fun. Like a swirling rainbow, shards of colour spread across the page.

Sister Dora

Posted on May 3, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, female subject, History, Sister Dora, Sketching, StatueLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was history. I drew Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, better known as Sister Dora (16 January 1832 – 24 December 1878), she was a 19th-century Anglican nun and a nurse who worked in Walsall, Staffordshire. She nursed miners after mine disasters. She is known as Walsall’s Florence Nightingale. I remember this statue in the town centre in the 1970’s. One of a very few statues of women in the UK. She died of breast cancer aged 46.

Fruity

Posted on May 1, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Fruit, fruity, Lemons, Orange, Oranges, Sketching, YellowLeave a comment

Today the #bandofsketchers prompt was fruity. Its a bit ‘sketchy’ because I was trying to draw in a dark room and it was hard to get the colours right. The fruit were real but I made the bowl up. It’s meant to be oranges and lemons in a cornish blue and white bowl.

Finished drawing?

Posted on April 30, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black and white sketch, Cross hatching, Drawing, Friend, Life, Portrait, Shading, SketchingLeave a comment

I think this is done. I hope they like it. I’ve tried to get the tones right but it’s hard to get it right. I think I’ve got the features close to how they look on the photo.. I decided not to draw the whole figure as the little boys head would have to be a lot smaller and I’ve tried to simplify the background. Anyway it’s going to it’s new home soon. X

Looking out

Posted on April 29, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, Artrage oils, Digital manipulation, Drawing, Filters, Instagram, Life, SketchingLeave a comment

I decided to play with a previous drawing. It’s fascinating how you can rotate and reposition images in Instagram filters. You can make parts of the image recede or come forward. And if I’d wanted to I could have blurred the edges of the image. It also allows you to change the colours and contrast, shadows and brightness. Other apps allow you to do other things. The world is your oyster.

Working on a drawing

Posted on April 29, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Commission, Drawing, Friend, Life, nephew, Pencil sketch, Picture, Portrait, SketchingLeave a comment

Portrait of a friends nephew. I’ve just started it using a dark grey pencil crayon. It needs some more work and I will try and include some of the background to make it more cohesive. I need to work on the shading. If I squint my eyes I can work out the tonal range. Clearly the forehead needs darkening on the left hand side. I’ve only got today and tomorrow to finish it!

Blue doodle

Posted on April 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Artrage oils, Blue, Drawing, finger drawing, Sketching, turquoiseLeave a comment

Or is it turquoise? Drawn in ArtRage oils. Finger painting on my phone. One of the challenges with drawing on a phone is if you don’t use a stylus (I can’t find mine) and the tools on this app means the colours smear together. I do have ArtRage on my tablet. That’s the pro version with many more tools but my phone is easier to use as it’s not as heavy on my arm.

Africa

Posted on April 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Africa, Art, Continent, Deserts, Drawing, Earth, fauna, Flora, Landscape, Life, Planet, Sketching, Space, World6 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Africa. It is such a large continent with such varied flora and fauna and landscapes so I decided to draw a view of it and part of the surrounding countries from space. Drawn with felt pens. I used a plastic tub to draw round for the circle.

Mallaband-Brown

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