Memory

Posted on May 15, 2022May 20, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Face, felt pen sketch, gnarled, Memory, Prompt, Sketching, TreeLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was memory. I don’t have a photo of this but it’s stuck in my mind. There was a rock wall and maybe a tree growing up from it, or growing nearby. That is what I see in my minds eye. The tree trunk was very gnarled and each time I walked past I saw a gnarly face.

This is from when I was a child. There was also an avenue of similar trees behind it. But I can’t remember how they were placed. Then there were park railings and houses beyond. Its funny what sticks in the memory. X

Is that me?

Posted on April 30, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Experiment, Eye, Face, knowing, Life, not knowing, not sure, Poem, Poetry, ThinkingLeave a comment

Eye don’t know

Is it me?

Colours coruscate

Light flickers

Only one eye

Staring back at me?

Knowing nothing

Losing thoughts

I don’t know if it’s me.

Maybe?

Your face is a map

Posted on April 13, 2022April 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Architecture, Art, arteries, boulevards, Building, Drawing, Face, Map, Roads, Sketching, Streets, Thinking, VeinsLeave a comment

Ink bleeds through paper. Draw around those patches, lines and dots, and you get a patchwork ‘map’ that looks like roads and boulevards, streets and squares. A change of colour for city blocks. Villages line up on roads between fields. Some streets are tree lined, others are concrete. Does it show your age? Are you industrial or agrarian? Modern or ancient? Fortified? Or do you see veins, arteries and capillaries?

The mirror cracked

Posted on April 1, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Face, faded, Fog, Life, obscured, Photo, Poem, Poetry, self portrait, split, third eye, Time2 Comments

I posted this on Instagram and my friend said she could see my third eye!

I like to be obscured

And obscure

Hide my light

Under a bushel.

Blue and red and grey

Like an old TV set

With a cracked screen

A play for today

Trying hard

Not to implode

But dissappear into

The fog of time

Faded in the light

Face

Posted on March 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colours, Digital drawing, Face, Fun, Memory, Shaking, SketchingLeave a comment

Face, digital drawing from about four years ago. I used to do more of these but I’ve not felt as able to for a while because of my arm shaking. The lines I try and draw go too wobbly. This was drawn in ArtRage oils.

Cat Woman

Posted on March 2, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Cat, Design, Drawing, Face, finger drawing, Free app, Life, Sketching, WomanLeave a comment

Doodle in ArtRage oils free app. I’m so busy drawing with felt pens that I forgot that I have it on my phone. I’m sort of sticking with blue and yellow as my main colours. Why, because Ukraine is on my mind. I guess this isn’t brilliant but finger painting with smudgy drawing tools can be difficult. I don’t know what made me draw this, but it was fun..

Mirror mirror

Posted on February 27, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Face, Fun, Humour, Life, Mirror, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, SillyLeave a comment

Mirror mirror, on the wall

What do you see, the room at all?

Do you see the world around

Clearly see where you are bound?

Into night, away from day

Where your owner learns to play

Music on the piano.

Making every hour go

So when a face you finally show

The thought is there

A face so fair.

Bestiary

Posted on February 11, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, bestiary, black and white face, Eyes, Face, Multiple, multiplied photo, noses, Photo4 Comments

Eerie multiple photo. If I was describing it to someone I would say it looks almost human, but it could be some strange concoction of a scent hunter. The noses look weird because they are wider than normal, and the eyes are tiny and embedded into the facial flesh. It could almost be part of a bestiary. I have found a few images in them that are quite amazing and also bizarre, but I think this could almost fit in with the criteria of one of them. X

Hot

Posted on February 2, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Age, Cooking, Face, Food, Heat, Heating, Hot, Life, Profile, Sketching, Time5 Comments

Why do I feel hot? I’m melting. Not my age? It’s winter, I’ve got the heating on. But I’m hot. I’m not ill, I was, but I’m getting better. I guess it’s because I have been standing in front of the cooker making tea (evening meal). I was looking for a drawing to show how I feel and this one from a couple of days ago illustrates it well. As you get older life seems to get more complicated. I swear I think bits are going to start falling off me!

Anyway, I’m feeling a bit better. But even so, I think I will have an early night. Life, its wonderful but complex.

Experiment, atomic

Posted on January 31, 2022January 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, cloud chamber, Cosmic rays, Drawing, Electrons, Experiment, Face, Hair, SketchingLeave a comment

I experimented with a sunset sky and added texture to it. Then I added some flood fill colours on a low tolerance so they didn’t spread far. Finally I used a sketching app to add the face and hair. I called it atomic because it reminds me of cloud chamber patterns, the patterns of electrons and Cosmic rays make as they pass through cold wet air.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Face