Doodle

Posted on April 23, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Confusion, crystalline, Doodle, explanation, Graffiti, Meaning, Sketching4 Comments

I’m tired after painting yesterday, but I might do something later. I decided to crop a picture I did a while ago. I like using geometric pattern and chaotic lines to create something different. Halfway between graffiti and a crystalline structure. One of the things about art is meaning. Often you have a long explanation next to a piece of art. However I do think art should speak for itself. Possibly I’m not intellectual enough to write a story about urban decay to explain this but, you know, it’s a doodle…. Maybe it indicates confusion. X

Seclusion

Posted on March 31, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Bang!, Colourful, Design, Drawing, Graffiti, Life, Obsessed, Phone, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was seclusion. I was secluded for about 20 hours when my phone battery started to overheat. I took it to the phone shop but it was closed, but I went back later and got a replacement. The pattern on this is meant to be a design for a phone case. Just taking something positive out of a difficult day x

Thursdays prompt..

Posted on December 18, 2022December 18, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Abstract, Art, Car, Drawing, Funny, Graffiti, Odd, Pink, Prompt, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Car. I had drawn an abstract pattern and could make out the shape of a car in it. Not exactly inspired, but I had fun. A bit like graffiti. I could imagine it spray painted on a concrete road bridge. It does look like it’s been in an accident. Still got to do today’s prompt.. Maybe tomorrow.

Angles

Posted on October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Angles, Art, Doodling, Drawing, Graffiti, graffiti style, grunge, metallic pens, Pastels, Sketching, TextureLeave a comment

A graffiti like image that started as a doodle with pastel and metallic pens. The scratches and textures were created using the photodirector app on my phone. Trying to create something that looks like it could have been painted on a wall and weathered over time.

Splash of colours

Posted on January 18, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Design, Dragon, Filters, Graffiti, Ideas, Illustration, Pattern, SplashLeave a comment

Oh I do love a filter, playing with colours. Adding layers, making the pattern slide around. Like Graffiti on a garage door. Splat! Somehow I am creating things that look medieval and Mexican or South American at the same time? I don’t know, but I’m enjoying playing with it.

How do I draw a map?

Posted on April 12, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Animal, Art, Design, Drawing, Ears, eye mouth, Fun, Graffiti, Lettering, Map, Maze, modern, Text6 Comments

I’m playing with different ideas. I held two pens together to try and get parallel lines, and I wanted to do something modern, a bit like graffiti for this. The writing says ‘walk this way to get to the treasure trove don’t get bitten on the way through the winding maze.’

There is a gaping mouth and a big staring eye. Big clawed feet and huge ears. The animals body is covered in flowers….fun..

Big City Dreams

Posted on February 8, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, big city dreams, Graffiti, Heart, Photos, Staffordshire, stencils, Stoke-on trent, Text, Words5 Comments

I keep seeing this stencil around our city. I think it’s a work by a local artist called ‘stokesy’? Whoever it is they are emulating Banksy.

I like these, it feels like they care about the city. There is a neatness and confidence about them. They are representative of the creative spirit of the city of the Potteries. The home of Clarice Cliff and Suzie Cooper, Emma Bridgewater, Wedgewood, and all the potteries and makers in the area. I ❤️ this city, I ♥️ Stoke-on-Trent.

Doodles from three years ago…

Posted on December 20, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digital drawing, Doodles, Duplicated, Fun, Graffiti, MirroredLeave a comment

These were on my memories from three years ago so I thought I would share them. Yet again a combination of doodling and filters. Probably drawn with a stylus. Using Sketch, sketcher free and ArtRage oils. I like drawing faces in profile.

I’ve found I usually draw left facing profiles for faces and animals. In this case I’ve switched a couple of them round to see how it changes the image. Is it something to do with if you are left or right handed? I don’t know.

Face

Posted on July 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital spray paint, Graffiti, Illustration, Learning, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Selfie? Or someone else?, ThoughtLeave a comment

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Stern, thoughtful

Face seen in patterns,

What are you thinking?

Are you at peace

Or do you feel tragedy?

Could you be happy,

Or peaceful and calm?

Are you real

Or just captured as a sketch.

A Digital grafitti?

Spray can causing an image

Caught on computer wallpaper.

I made this thought.

I made this face

But does it describe me?

Making a lamp

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Etruria, Etruria Artists, Fun, Graffiti, Lamp, Painting, Playing, Project, Tealight2 Comments

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I did the jar late last night, 3am. Couldn’t easily paint inside so got some silver foil and cut our shapes. Fastened it on with loads of sellotape. Then I painted over it with abstract patterns. I painted the top too and then used a bit of matt varnish on it to hold it together a bit more. Finally I twisted some wire to hold a tea light, so I didn’t have to try and light it in the bottom of the jar.

I can use it in our summerhouse. The silver foil was a bit chunky because I was worried it would rip when I unfolded the cut out. The pattern I’m calling ‘graffiti’ , cos it looks a bit like the spray painting you get along the canal on the way to Etruria.

This was an idea for a weekly project we are doing in our Etruria Artists group.

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Tag: Graffiti