New paintings and regular art updates.
Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was slow so I decided to draw a speedy snail after watching wheelchair racing at the Paralympics. I used the pink and green ink that had bled trough from the other side of the page together with fine black ink pen to indicate a wind or breeze. I guess I could have drawn a couple of leaves being blown about in it or the snails eye stalks being blown back? Do they have four eye stalks… .
Abstract strawberry and drawing of a strawberry. Done at an art lunch my friend organised at the warehouse at Etruria Industrial Museum. Just a chance to meet up with some artists I haven’t seen for months. It was good to see them in the flesh!
What to do next? Think about getting involved with community groups, I’m not good at networking so this is a good thing for me. It gets me to think about my artistic life.
Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was vegetable. I looked at broccolli, the fractal sort where it spirals into points. But I just could not draw it. So I decided to draw the normal stuff with a knife to cut it.
In a spin
My head whirls
Twists
Turns
Round and round
No way back
Just forwards
In time
The clock has ticked
Time goes fast
We have to follow
My spinning mind
Watches
Tick tick tock
The clock
Spinning
Down
Abstract ‘window’ for Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt. I did a black and white drawing, then added some cut outs of paper trees. I tried drawing over them because I wasn’t very happy with it. Finally used photodirector to change the texture. The cut out trees were meant to represent net curtains.
Just a doodle of a bee holding the stub of a pencil. It was an idea for a logo. It wasn’t taken up, but I think the artist liked it.
I suppose I could do a whole alphabet using animals or insects and different artists materials…. From an Aardvark holding a paintbrush to a Zebra on a canvas? I don’t know?
I used the bits of paper from my paper cutouts to add a pattern. Chair and floor coverings…. I quite like the effect…, #bandofsketchers prompt from Thursday.
Keeping my mind occupied….
I found this on my Facebook memories from a few years ago. The drawing was done in ArtRage oils. It’s a digital drawing done with my finger. Then duplicated in my Layout app that’s attached to Instagram. I thought the resultant colours and image came out rather well.
Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was ‘switch’. Finally posted this. Not too happy with it but it is what it says on the tin!
It’s hard sometimes to think of something to draw for these prompts. It depends where you are. What springs to mind, what tools you have to make the work. Anyway, I wonder what Thursdays will be?
Partly cut cat…..today’s craft skill held at B Arts in Stoke, was learning to use a craft knife to cut out our own designs. I’d almost finished this before the break. I’ve bought the sheet of paper home so I can complete this and three others, one is a sunset, then something based on a green man and the fourth is a horse. I will try and finish them off today.
Mallaband-Brown