Funny face

Posted on January 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Face, fun-day, Games, Memories, pulling a face, School, Sketching, sports field, TimeLeave a comment

When I drew a very grumpy picture of myself today I remembered how much I used to like pulling faces. Then a memory came back to me… I suddenly remembered that I won the funny face competition and my twin won the funny walk competition at a school sports-fun day one year. We won a pound and a half of full cream chocolate! I think we must have practiced a lot, but I’m not sure I knew that this was what the prize was.

It’s funny because I can remember the scene as if it was yesterday now. A group of children on the sports field and kids taking it in turn to make the others laugh. Whoever had the idea was a genius, much more fun than running races. No doubt influenced by ‘Month Pythons Flying Circus’ TV show which was on at the time. (Which I wasn’t allowed to watch because it was too ‘rude).

Open time

Posted on November 12, 2022November 13, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Face, Fine Art, good day, Life, Painting, painting sketch, Portrait, Spode Open day5 Comments

What to do in your open studio? Meet lots of people who want to ask questions. I got nervous seeing so many people so I decided to paint my hubby reading. It’s a vert small studio and as one lot of people left another came in. I tried speaking but it’s hard to know what people think and after avoiding people for a couple of years because of Covid I have become more socially inept. It’s just hard to know what to say. But anyway overall it was a positive feeling. I sold one minature painting and made the princely sum of £4!

Ow!

Posted on November 11, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back door, boot, car door, cut, Face, Life, Nose, Ouch, ow, Sore, Spode4 Comments

Ow! I was getting some paintings out of the car boot today and I pulled the door down and hit my nose. It really hurt so I rubbed it as you do and everything seemed OK. I hadn’t hit the bridge of my nose. So nothing broken. I went into Spode and priced up my work. Hubby didn’t tell me I had a cut on my nose. I spoke to several people, no mention! Either I looked so rough that they didn’t want to say anything, or it didn’t look that bad, or they were just very polite. Anyway, I only noticed it because it’s started to hurt and it felt rough under my finger, so yes, ouch!

Decidedly under the weather

Posted on November 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Colour, Drawing, Face, finger drawing, Life, metallic pens, Profile, Sketching2 Comments

I’m tired and not feeling much like doing anything, scratchy sore throat and a bit blocked up nose and ears. I decided to doodle a face. Why is it when I draw profiles they normally face left? Previous discussions with other artists raised the idea you can see where to draw easier if you draw the outline first then move back towards the eyes and mouth and ears. This is a finger drawing in ArtRage oils. I need to experiment more with it. I also need to find my stylus.

I see a face.

Posted on August 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Face, Mirrored, Pareidolia, Plants, spider plant, Sunlight, Superhero?, Symmetry, Wall2 Comments

Light and shadow become a mask. Eyes in shadow, high cheekbones. Flight of fancy? Do you see it? The light was cast onto the wall and the green and brown strands are the stems and leaves of a spider plant. The image has been mirrored so that there is vertical symmetry. It feels like a view of a cinema screen and could be a super hero or villa. I think it looks like a cross between spiderman and batman!

Unconscious

Posted on August 1, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, closed eyes, different style, Drawing, Experiment, Face, self portrait, Selfie, Sketching, unconsciousLeave a comment

Warning, I’ve made myself look very strange.

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was Unconscious. I have been unconscious a few times in my life and thankfully remember nothing about it. I decided to take a selfie with my eyes closed and hair dishevelled. The drawing is trying out the new style I’m playing with… Nose is too long because I had the sketchbook horizontal so it’s all elongated

Smile in the sky

Posted on July 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Face, Fun, Image, Mirrored, Pareidolia, Playing, Sky, Smile, SymmetryLeave a comment

I continue to play with multiple photos, mostly I don’t know what I will get as an image. I rotate the photos round. When I do that you get four versions of a picture. In this case by having the dark areas at the top and bottom, and putting the curved white cloud towards the centre I get an apparent smile. But look closely at the horizontal centre of the picture you can vaguely see two eyes? My pareidolia again….

Artrage oils doodle

Posted on July 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage oils, Colours, Doodles, Drawing, Face, metallic pens, nonmetallic, Playing, Sketching2 Comments

An app I don’t use very often, but sometimes I remember it and then hve a play with it. This was just a doodle of a face. There is a metallic and non metallic pen and different sizes of them, plus a dry brush, an everlasting oils brush, and two others. The colours change depending on how metallic you set it. I think I could learn to control it better if I used a stylus instead of my finger to draw.

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?

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Face