Artrage and photodirector

Posted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Black and white, Cat, Drawing, Fun, Illustration, Life, Photodirector, Picture, SketchingLeave a comment

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Drawn in artrage oils and edited in photodirector changing the colours and style.

This is what I mean about playing with are, yes this is a scrappy sketch, but it’s my scrappy sketch, amended and changed how I want. I would love to illustrate a book using a style like this. I could imagine creating pictures about a crazy cat in a children’s book.

I was once offered the opportunity to illustrate a book but the publishers woukd only allow the author to use an in house illustrator. I was very disappointed as I think I could have created a different atmosphere by working with her. Oh well….

Woody

Posted on May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white, Black and white cat, Cat, Fun, Garden, Holly, Hotos, Humour, UnderneathLeave a comment

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Here he’s under the holly

Happy cat, jolly.

Black and white,

Yes that’s alright.

Golden eyed,

He has pride.

He’s a stray

Who won’t go away.

But I don’t mind

He’s a real find.

Cute and sweet,

He’s real neat.

Brand new challenge

Posted on May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Digital drawing, Fun, Locality, New challenge, Sketching, Tablet drawing, Urban SketchersLeave a comment

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I am still sketching, a new person is posting challenges for Stoke-on-Trent urban sketchers and it is great to be inspired by them. The challenge was locality.

I did a drawing of the view through my window, locality…near a pottery. This is a digital drawing done on my tablet.

The sun has been shining all day and I went out in the garden and pruned back some of the trees that are growing over the summerhouse. The cherry trees are still covered in a large crop which is gradually ripening. No doubt the birds will get them first.

More later.

70’s toys

Posted on May 24, 2020May 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1970's, 70's toy, Blogging, Childhood, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Life, Memories, Random, Time, ToyLeave a comment

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Clackers.. Two balls on a string you waved up and down, with a little ring in the middle. They were meant to bounce off each other top and bottom. Many a broken finger….

Made of hard plastic, some luminous green, other colours too. I remember them being quite heavy. The cord holding them together was made of nylon. The string was tied round the ring at the halfway point. You moved your arm up and down fast, the balls would be sent flying and bounce at the top and bottom of their arc, making the characteristic ‘clacking’ noise. Hence the name.

As with other toys from the 70’s I doubt they would have been approved by health and safety now!

Usk day 35, digital close up

Posted on May 23, 2020 Posted in SketchingTagged #uskstoke, Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Life, pencil sharpener, ring, SketchLeave a comment

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Day 35 and the challenge was to draw a close up. Someone drew a necklace so I decided to draw one of my rings. The green tub is meant to be a plastic pencil sharpener. It was quite reflective and you could see the ring mirrored in it. I actually drew both objects on top of the tablet, so the light was shining up . Its a different method to what I normally do, but I want to try and get some skill back doing this kind of thing.

Digital selfie, feeling old.

Posted on May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, Digital art, Filters, Fun, Layout app, Old, Photodirector app, Poem, Poetry, self portrait, Selfie2 Comments

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Oh I do like playing,

Adding apps,

Changing filters,

Learning ways

To alter pictures

Making weird

Wonderful patterns,

Artistic fun.

Just one step more,

Another filter,

I’m twenty years older!

Well maybe…

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using my PC

Posted on May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged course, Fun, Internet, Learning, pc, spaghetti wires, Technology4 Comments

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Its been three years since Iv’e used my PC. I am very rusty at this, even trying to type on a keyboard again feels very anachronistic, and its a big lumpy keyboard. My mouse? An old wacom tablet I used to draw on and as a mouse. So I’m struggling. I’m surprised a little paperclip hasn’t popped up to tell me I’m doing things wrong, and I had got used to my keypad auto-correcting, so there’s lots of underscored red warnings about my lack of ‘s in words like wasn’t for was not…..grr.

So why the haste to go back to the PC?

I’m trying to set up to do an online course which will need communication via a website that is more complicated than my phone. after spending the day trying to sort out spaghetti cables , leads that run to nowhere, and a monitor that doesn’t want to play I’m going to give it a rest for a while .

Kitchen at night

Posted on May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Colours, Fun, Night, Photo, Plants, Random, Reflections, Windowsill2 Comments

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I am just putting my phone on charge and I looked up and saw the light from the back door porch shining through and reflecting off the walls and the windows. As you can see I’m growing a lot of Christmas cacti and other plants including a baby oak and a sweet pepper plant on the windowsill. There are also glass mobiles hanging up there. Why? Because I got burgled twenty years ago and as well as an alarm I decided to make it as awkward as possible for anyone to try an climb through a window without knocking stuff off.

I think this might eventually turn into a painting. Night all

Quiz name?

Posted on May 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Fun, Ideas, Name, Questions, Quiz, Random, Team, Texting, Thought, Time, VideoconferencingLeave a comment

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I’m part of a quiz team which is meeting online for the first time, and we need to decide on a name for us.

It’s complicated because the team will be videoconferencing and texting at the same time… Technology. As they say its a steep learning curve.

Then of course there’s the questions. I think there might be a theme to them. When I went to a ‘real life’ quiz run by the same people the theme was seasonal. I don’t have a clue about the questions. As long as they are not music or sports based.

So wish us luck and hopefully by Monday we’ll have a name.

Fun

Posted on May 14, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white sketch, Cat, Cat toy, Challenge, Drawing, Fun, Playing, Pouncing, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Following the cat theme.

As she is so quick, I had to take a quick photo of her, then I drew her and added in the background. The toy has cat nip in it, it’s fun for her to chase and jump.

Urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent challenge, day 26….5b pencil in an A4 cartridge paper sketch pad.

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Tag: Fun