Easter flowers

Posted on April 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Collage, Colours, Design, Easter, Eggs, Filters, Finger painting, Flowers, Fun, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Can’t stop playing with my phone apps. I don’t know where I get all my ideas from. I hope you enjoy them. I like using multiple apps to get different results. Then you can use various filters. I really like the freedom of finger or stylus painting. I have only ever “built” an image with CAD when I did a course in computer aided design several years ago. Yes I could build boxes into a house, or circles and elipses into a face, but it’s not the same as the freedom of drawing. Yes I’ve used flower templates here, but I had to change and add to it. I get bored otherwise!

Sweet pepper abstract

Posted on April 8, 2023April 8, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, Colourful, Design, digitally drawn, Drawing, Fun, Pattern, Sketching, sweet pepper1 Comment

I really like that the collage app I have gone for has shaped templates so you can create a design, maybe modify it, then fit each individual image to a shape in the template. That’s what I did here…. Abstract sweet pepper x

Cat drawing

Posted on April 8, 2023 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Cat, Colourful, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Experiment, Fun, Sketching, tabby windowsill2 Comments

Digital drawing using Artrage. I’ve found the tools to change the background so I used the canvas option. You can also chose a background colour. It looks as if I’ve drawn on canvas board but it’s totally digital. A bit rough round the edges but I like the way the cats eyes have turned out. Off to play some more….

Yo-yo’s

Posted on April 7, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Colourful, Complementary colours, Design, Drawing, Fun, playful, Sketching, yo-yo'sLeave a comment

Twirling, whirling, swirling.

Artrage app using metallic digital pens and flood fill, then saving the image and adding extra lines to it, then flipping one side so it’s not quite symmetrical. The red and greens are complimentary colours so they stand out against each other where they haven’t blended together.

Tree abstract

Posted on April 6, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Artrage, Colour, Digital drawing, Drawing, Experiment, Fun, Grey, Tree2 Comments

Tree drawing done using Artrage, the app I amusing has more options than the one on my old phone so I’m learning how to use the different tools. I’ve also found how to change the opacity. I liked using greyed colours instead of bright ones in this image.

Prompt: Easter

Posted on April 6, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Artrage, Digital apps, Digital drawing, Easter, Easter eggs, Fun, Metallic, Non metallicLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Easter. Instead of using felt pens, I give you the Artrage app. A mixture of metallic and non metallic textures and several different pen types including a digital ink roller, a brush, and other pens. Happy Easter!

Glitter spiral

Posted on April 6, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Experiment, Fun, Glitter, Maze, Metallic, Odd, Paint, Painting, Pattern, Poem, Poetry, Spiral4 Comments

Glue, Glitter and paint

Blue, green and black

Spiralling round

Like a maze on the ground

Metallic paint

Set with sparkles

Like an ancient mound

The path wound around

Playing with art

Staying happy.

Daffodil face

Posted on April 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, Daffodils, Flowers, Fun, Ideas, Pareidolia, Playing, Poem, Poetry, RhymeLeave a comment

Just look at me! I’m a daffodil face!

A nose, two eyes, and ears in place?

I could be a skull

Or a monster too

I definitely am yellow

And a little sallow

I wonder what beast

I could be the least

Beautiful flower

Or petals in a bower…

Bad rhymes

Silly times!

Childhood memory

Posted on April 3, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Age, Childhood, Climbing, fearless, Fun, Memories, ropes, School, swing, Tag, Wall barsLeave a comment

I used to climb up the sides of an old slide like this not the steps to get to the top. These was tarmac underneath that I could have fallen down onto, but I didn’t. Goodness knows why I did it. I also used to hang upside down from the top bar of the swings. I would climb up via the three legs holding up one end and then climb over. I don’t know why I stopped, maybe I was told it was not a thing girls did!

At the end of term at school we used to play pirates in the gym. They would pull the wall bars out and lock them in place and there were three or four ropes hanging down from the ceiling. The challenge of pirates was to play three dimensional tag. I would climb up the bars or a rope and if anyone tried to get me I would reach over and climb onto the next rope! I often was the last person standing (or hanging!)

Photo courtesy of a friend, hope that’s OK?

Egg?

Posted on April 1, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital sketch, Easter egg, egg, Fun, Learning, metallic pens, Tools3 Comments

Egg doodle using a newer version of Artrage that I’ve downloaded onto my new phone. Glad I’ve got this one, but other older apps I can no longer find. I will keep looking. It’s frustrating that the gallery images that I’d saved on those apps have disappeared, but you learn and transfer skills to other apps. This is meant to be an Easter egg. Can you tell? Lots more tools on this version, no opacity tool though so you can’t reduce the strength of the pen with a slider, and the old choice had a dry pen, and three other style of pens that I can’t remember now? But fun none the less.

Mallaband-Brown

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