Cat helping me draw!

Posted on April 30, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Drawing, Life, Paper, Pen, Sketchbook, Sketching, Tuxedo cat, Watching8 Comments

Oh yes! She tried to get my pen and rubbed her head along my sketchpad. I took a blurry photo and then drew this. Sometimes the paw comes up and she tries to grab my pen. Eyes staring at the tip of it. What fun… Maybe she was an artist in a past life!

Last day of April, almost the end of this semester, but I think drawing something every day has really improved my skills. Looking back at last year’s work before I started college I can see how my mark making has changed. Practice is definitely good for Art.

A is for Apple

Posted on April 29, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apple, Bowl, crazed, Crisp, Drawing, Gold, Green, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sketch, Taste2 Comments

In a crazed,

cracked bowl

Sits an Apple

Green and crunchy

Ready to eat

Crisp skin

Flecked with gold.

Sharp tasting

But sweet

Glistening

Imagined

Posted on April 29, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Characters, Collage, College, Doodle, Drawing, Fairy, Fun, genie, giant, Imagined, SketchLeave a comment

A giant, a genie and a fairy, (thus coukd be a joke). Pencil crayon drawings cut out to add to a collage I did for college. It came out quite well. I don’t have a decent photo of it so I can’t show you. It’s fun though coming up with characters and images from my imagination.

Upright

Posted on April 27, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, #bandofsketchers, Art, Black ink, Bottle oven, Charcoal, Drawing, From a photo, Metallic pen, Metallic pencils, Photo, seen on a walk, Sketch3 Comments

Upright bottle oven somewhere near the canal in Burslem, from a photo I took on a walk with the closer to home group on Saturday. I didn’t have time to stop and read the sign about it as I was at the back of the group. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt. Metallic silver pen, metallic colours, dried up black felt pens, black felt pen, charcoal stick.

Penkhull tree.

Posted on April 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 6B, Art, Drawing, fine line ink pen, Life, Pencil sketch, silver pen, Sketching, Sunset, Trees, twenty minute sketchLeave a comment

My first outdoor sketch apart from in our garden or from a window or a photograph for a year. View of a tree on the Croft, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent.Drawn with a 6b pencil over about twenty minutes on our evening walk. I added black ink fine line pen and silver felt pen later.

#bandofsketchers spiral

Posted on April 25, 2021April 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Cabochon, Chain, coloured glass, Drawing, Life, metallic glass, Sketching, Wire weaving2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt.. Spiral.
Spiral of wire weaving my friend Deborah did for one of my glass cabochons I made at Angela Ashtons fused glass workshop a few years ago.

The wire weave and chain is a deep bronze colour, I couldn’t really do it justice. There are coloured glass and metallic effect glass in the cabochon.

I’m happy with the drawing, it’s not perfect but it does represent it.

Over..

Posted on April 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black ink, Drawing, Hartshill, Hawthorn, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Tree6 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was over… Today’s walk led us under this hawthorn tree that was growing over the road. Its in Hartshill on the way up to Queens Road. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Is this a map?

Posted on April 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Description, Doodle, Drawing, five words, is it a map? Creating characters, Map, SketchingLeave a comment

OK, this was a doodle for a project in one of the weeks at college. We had five words chosen for us and had to create characters and situations for them to be in.

Mine were: copper, glasses, bedroom, sarcastic and star.

I’d made a crown earlier in the year for a virtual panto I was in. It was made of card covered in holographic stars. I finished the work, but now we are doing a project on creating a map. I was looking back on previous work and found this. It’s a map I think? It’s not what I’m doing for the project but it made me think about what a map is.

I would define a map as:

Describing a place pictorially with images, or using sound to give directions.

It can be imagined or realistic. Using icons or symbols to describe objects within the map. Indications of pathways or roads, ways to navigate the area. And rules to show whether places are only accessible in a certain way. Exits and entrances. Also is the map two or three dimensional, how is that represented. Lots to think about.

Remembered scary tree

Posted on April 21, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Childhood, Drawing, faded memories, History, Life, Memory, Sketching, Spooky, Time, TreeLeave a comment

Oh I used to run past this tree. I was convinced as a child that it was inhabited by a ghost. As part of this terms college work we had to remember some landscape from our childhood and this was what I thought of.

I’ve probably missed out trees and I can’t remember if there were houses in the background. But it will remain with me forever!

Mark making.

Posted on April 20, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, blue pencil crayon, College, Drawing, Fun, Learning, Life, Mark making, Sketching, Workshop7 Comments

Not a good photo, but this was me drawing different marks as part of a mark making workshop.

It was supposed to be in pencil but all I had was a blue pencil crayon. I also tried rubbing over the top of an embossed tin. You had to come up with as many different marks as you coukd in a five minute period. It gets your mind working… Good for creativity.

Mallaband-Brown

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