Dragon design

Posted on October 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, children's story book, Dragon, dragon designs, Drawing, Felt pens, Ideas, Illustration, SketchingLeave a comment

My final major project for college will probably be a story about a dragon and an adventure with it. I wrote a story about twenty years ago but when I asked friends what they thought I decided it was too wordy, more like a novel. Not funny enough. So it’s sat on my computer and each time I have upgraded my system I’ve copied the file so I’ve never lost it.

I won’t tell the story, but I thought of it as a tale to tell my friends baby daughter. I was going to get a book published that I could give to her when she was older. Sadly she is an adult now and I’ve lost track of her mum. Maybe that book will finally be finished. Anyway I’m experimenting with illustrations for it.

Cat collection

Posted on October 1, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cat, Cats, Colour, Design, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Sketching2 Comments

#bandofsketchers prompt on Thursday was collection. I didn’t know what to do so I decided to sketch my cat ornaments. Bit random but I was trying to simplify them. I just used coloured felt pens and avoided using black outlines.

Bear drinking?

Posted on September 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Animal, Art, Bear, Design, Digital art, Drawing, Nose, Play, Sheep, Sketch, Wolf, WoolLeave a comment

Playing with a pattern and creating a bear. Mouth down in the water, drinking from a stream. It was almost a sheep but them I added a big nose. I digitally drew over a pattern I had hand drawn on paper. Then mirrored the images. I think it could also be a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Pareidolia in a tion again.

Brushes

Posted on September 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Blue, brush pens, Drawing, Red, Sketching, Winsor and Newton, YellowLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was brush so I drew my three Winsor & Newton watercolour pens and brushes (one end is a pen and the other a brush). Red yellow and blue primary colours. That’s it really.

I love to draw

Posted on September 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Fun, Landscape, Life, my life, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Pottery2 Comments

Now I make patterns

Sometimes I draw faces

Or paint trees

Or sketch landscapes….

I have painted murals

Scenery for plays

Working on pottery,

Putting on glazes.

Making Art..

I am an Artist.

Before it was jazz

Posted on September 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Design, Doodle, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, Gold pen, Possible painting, SketchLeave a comment

I started the previous drawing like this. It was going to be a background for something else, so the pattern is spread across the whole surface. I might recreate it on a canvas in paint. Not decided yet. I have an exhibition coming up in November and I’m thinking of creating a series of abstracts based on some of these designs.

Jazz melody

Posted on September 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Bold, Design, Drawing, Fun, Gold leaf, jazz, Melody, Musical, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was melody. My melody is Jazz. Subtle juxtaposition of lilting tunes and jagged zinging dischords….

I added gold leaf to add the sparks of musical energy.. I used felt pens for the background. I drew triangles around dots that had bled through from the other side of the page.

Moving less

Posted on September 25, 2021September 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, calf, Drawing, injury, Insomnia, Life, Pain, Pulled muscle?, Stuck, Time, TiredLeave a comment

Steps… The last few days I’ve kept my phone with me and measured how far I walked throughout the day. Over the week since I pulled my calf muscle I have stumbled and ambled about and managed to walk around five thousand steps a day… Not today. I’ve had more pain in my leg and I was so tired I fell asleep for the first time properly in a week. I didn’t fully wale up fully at about 1pm today.

Being injured is a bit like house arrest. No images to take photos of. No sunsets, if I hadn’t been doodling I would not have any art to show. I’ve got things to do but I can’t. I was going to go to a portrait workshop today but I didn’t dare risk it. There is a problem with petrol supplies and it’s affecting all transport so I might not have been able to get a taxi.

So, life continues to be painful but hopefully things will get better soon. X

Shells

Posted on September 24, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Beach, Drawing, Memories, mussels, Poem, Poetry, Seaside, Shells, Short poem, Sketching3 Comments

Shells

Mussels

Remind me

Of the beach

The sea

Washed by waves

Crushed underfoot

One day you will be sand.

Texture

Posted on September 24, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, blocked in, Complex, Drawing, Fun, Lines, Opaque, Pattern, Sketching, Texture2 Comments

This textured doodle took me about an hour and a half to draw. I tried to change the patterns on it using line and soid black, curves and squares. Trying different line thicknesses. I cannot decide which way round this should be? I don’t think it really matters?

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Drawing

Dragon design

Cat collection

Bear drinking?

Brushes

I love to draw

Before it was jazz

Jazz melody

Moving less

Shells

Texture