Green eyed

Posted on September 10, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital drawing, fairy tale ending?, Fun, Green, Green eyed monster, Very short story5 Comments

Don’t be jealous, she said. I deserve it, you don’t!

Huh! What a cheek, I thought.

Her sister piped up.. Yeah we are better than you!

I was young and naive and hated the way they spoke to me. I didn’t know how to fight back. I never guessed the jealousy was theirs. They always ganged up on me.

So I sat and cried, tried hard not to think about how they treated me… Thinking about a distant future where I would go to college and become a doctor or a scientist? A lawyer or an engineer….

Cinder-Ella! They shouted down to the skullery. Get that washing done then start cooking dinner!

I wiped my eyes and put my mind to the work…..

Caterpillars

Posted on September 10, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Caterpillar, Chrysalis, Fun, Gardening, holey, Life, Nasturtiums, Plants, Poem, Poetry, pupateLeave a comment

Crawling and creeping

Eating and munching

All over my nasturtiums

They chomp the leaves.

Soon to crystallise

Into chrysalis, cased-

What will the pupate into?

Butterflies, Moths, Sawflies?

Holey plants turned to beauty….

Adding a ‘filter’

Posted on September 8, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Experiment, Face, Filter, Fun, Playing, real life filter, Sketch, SketchingLeave a comment

Using plastic wrap as a type of filter….

If you don’t have an app to add a filter why not use something real instead? Here I used some crumpled plastic wrapping paper to put over the top of my abstract drawing of a face. It almost looks like the lines are printed on the plastic. Remember, experiment, have fun!

Drawing with my finger…

Posted on September 6, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Digital drawing, Drawing, finger drawing, Fun, Sketch, spontaneousLeave a comment

Drawn in a sketching app. I just used the tools and my finger to draw. There’s a built in wobble from my shaking arm. It’s been erased a few times to remove the most wobbly lines. I like the fact it’s quick and fresh. I like spontaneous line making. I enjoyed making it. X

#bandofsketchers ‘hole’

Posted on September 5, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Digital drawing, Duplicated, finger drawing, Fun, Layout app, Photodirector, SymmetryLeave a comment

I made a digital drawing based on the #bandofsketchers prompt of ‘hole’. Used my finger and a symmetry tool to create the pattern, then varied it using photodirector app.

The darker, softer image was the first, the other two were edited in photodirector and the images were duplicated in the Layout app.

Feeling owlish

Posted on September 4, 2021September 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Life, Owl, Pattern, Shaking, Sketching, Symmetry2 Comments

Using the digital drawing app on my phone I just did this. There is no chance of it being celtic as its a finger drawing and my arm shakes too much to draw straight or neatly curved lines.

Still it was fun to use the mirrored curves tool (what is it called?) to create this. I liked adding a bit of p

Speedy snail 🐌

Posted on September 4, 2021September 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black ink pen, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Life, Sketching, Snail, speedy2 Comments

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was slow so I decided to draw a speedy snail after watching wheelchair racing at the Paralympics. I used the pink and green ink that had bled trough from the other side of the page together with fine black ink pen to indicate a wind or breeze. I guess I could have drawn a couple of leaves being blown about in it or the snails eye stalks being blown back? Do they have four eye stalks… .

Structure

Posted on August 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Fun, Layout app, Mirrored, off cuts, Patterns, reused, Sketchbook, sketching with paperLeave a comment

I never waste things if I can help it. These castellated bits of paper are actually the off cuts from the ends of perforated sheets of paper. It’s where I have cut pages out of a sketchpad. One of the bits has black ink on it. The image was then mirrored four times in the Layout app I have on my phone. I don’t think I had glued these down, but I used some off cuts like this to turn into a block of flats (apartments) for a college project.

Overgrown

Posted on August 30, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cabbage, Cherries, Fun, Garden, Gardening, Green, Growing, Holly, Pears, Plants, Too much, Trees, YardLeave a comment

Too many plants in our garden. A lot of shrubs. There are probably bears in there (not), maybe hedgehogs and the squirrels are back and have started eating the walnuts from our tree which must be sixty foot high now.

A massive two trunked laurel Bush /tree robs a lot of the light, and holy bushes and a small eucalyptus are dotted about. The cherry trees are getting big and we have had to prop up the pear tree which is now laden with fruit. The wisteria is tangled up with the ivy on our kitchen and bathroom extention and a fig tree is growing there too. A few small olives appeared on the olive tree this year but didn’t grow big enough to crop.

Too much shade in the main garden so we are growing flowers in the back yard and on the pavement. We even (weirdly) have a couple of cabbages growing at the front!

Cat college work

Posted on August 29, 2021August 29, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white cat, Cat flap, Fun, Humour, Ideas, Illustration course, Sketching, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Some ideas for a college three square narrative. I had to put a portfolio together a few weeks ago. I decided to draw a cat trying to overcome a cat flap. This was based on one of my cats actually breaking the plastic flap because he’s too big and strong! (not the cat that’s gone missing). The big cat is very determined. He wouldn’t be deterred by a closed cat flap. He couldn’t get out by pushing it forward so I saw him pull the flap towards him with a claw, then pull it upwards till he could get his nose underneath and get out that way!

Mallaband-Brown

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