New paintings and regular art updates.
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.
#bandofsketchers prompt for Sunday. My hubby posed as a Scarecrow for me while we were at Trentham Gardens yesterday. I pretended his hands were straw. Its hard to do a drawing of a Scarecrow if you don’t see them very often, but I think this gives the general idea of how they look. I think they are meant to scare away rooks and crows that might eat a crop in field. The idea is that the birds think there is a human in the field, especially if the clothes it wears are old and ragged and flap in the breeze. If you want to read or see stories about scarecrows look up Worzel Gummage who was a character in a TV series in the 1970’s.
Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was clothing. I decided to design a tee-shirt. Black and white and then coloured with watercolour pencils. I guess it could be printed.
Try drawing then putting that through as many filters as you can. Layering one idea over another, changing colours, tones, putting in lighting effects. Always try and do something new, different. Learn as you experiment. Know how you can change things.
Drawing of white on black digitally then mirrored it and added a mozaic over part of it. Just playing. Using different ideas and styles. I never keep to one thing…
#band of sketchers today, again. This time with colour. Van Gogh meets Picasso (ish).
Abstract cat for today’s #bandofsketchers prompt, but I might colour this doodle in. I liked the idea of doodling a familiar thing with added pattern.
Holding two pens
I draw a face.
Hard to control,
The pens wobble
Tighter grip now
Try again…
The face emerges
The offset pens
Give it a blurred look.
An ancient roman
Apparently appears.
Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was sleeping. I drew my hubby asleep late at night. He had fallen asleep in front of the TV.
Black fine line ink pen on cartridge paper.
Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was clouds. I went for a short walk this evening and saw a nice sunset so decided to draw it. This was done with felt pens. I didn’t have the right colours for it, so it’s more purple than the real colour.
I just found this draft, so I decided to publish it.
Mallaband-Brown