Tranklements

Posted on November 6, 2023November 6, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged BCB, British ceramic biennial, Ceramics, cornucopia, Horse, Photo, Statue, tranklementsLeave a comment

There is a word I remember from my childhood. TRANKLEMENTS. It means, thingies, bits and bobs, a collection of stuff, not necessarily useful. Just things that you have got together over the years. I haven’t looked it up in the dictionary, so it might mean something entirely different to that, but this is my understanding of the word.

The photo of horse cornucopia sort of feels like that. A thing that isn’t really useful but is interesting. And how would you display it? They clearly have a stand to sit on…. But it’s like a unicorn with the horn at the wrong end, or a seahorse with a shell for a tail? How do people come up with such strange and wonderful ideas?

Just looked it up. I was right, it’s a black country word (west Midlands in the UK) meaning bits and bobs. I remember my gran using it!

Seahorse

Posted on September 24, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Beach, Design, Drawing, Horse, Life, Memory, Sand, Seahorse, Seaside, Sketching2 Comments

On beach holidays I draw seahorses like this on the sand. I will use a stick to draw it out and sometimes use pebbles to decorate it. These drawings are ephemeral, disappearing on the high tide, tracked over by footsteps, lost in windblown sand. Seahorse is a half horse, half fish. I just draw, them for fun.

Blue remembered horse

Posted on September 23, 2023September 23, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Blue, Drawing, Horse, imaginary, Mane, Metallic, Non metallic, SketchingLeave a comment

Artrage oils drawing with the canvas set at a rough setting. I used a red background, then drew a horse on top of it. Used non and metallic pens. Pulled the edges into shape with the eraser tool. Don’t ask abut the blue mane, I was being artistic.

Small flying horse

Posted on June 28, 2023June 28, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Colour, Fine Art, Horse, Old painting, Painting, Pegasus, white horse7 Comments

Another old painting from 2015, I’m not quite sure what I was thinking and it’s probably best forgotten!

Things I would change? The colours possibly. I would try and work from a horse photo because this isn’t very anatomically correct, I know it doesn’t actually have wings either! I guess I’ve made it delicate to be light enough to be held up by wings… Strange what you create as an artist.

Abstract horse sketch

Posted on April 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged App, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Experiment, Horse, Life, Sketching, Sketching app6 Comments

Playing with my sketching app again. This time I found my drawing stylus so I had more control over the lines in it. Although you can see by my writing that it’s not much more under control!

The pens in the app are very varied, here I used a solid flowing line, a texture and a watercolour effect. This could represent a chess piece, the knight. I like the way it’s turned out.

The water horse

Posted on April 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Horse, Imagined, Lake, Life, Mystery, Photodirector, pond weed, Short story, Sketch, Water, water horseLeave a comment

Looking down into the water I saw a reflected horse, brown and white with a dark mane. Pleased to see some life around me I looked up from the reflection, but there was nothing there. Only an old tree overhanging the water, flecked with red and brown leaves, that was all, then the sky and a wooden fence….

I looked back down into the water, it was murky now, covered with ripples from the wind, no sign of my previous vision.

I stood up and started walking around the path. The lake was not big and it took me ten minutes to walk through the grass and sedges to the gate. The lake was in a dip so it was soon disappearing behind me. Flowers and hedges shimmering in the sun. I looked back over my shoulder and saw a horses head appearing out of the water, it stepped onto the bank, it started to trot, gallop, it was moving fast towards me. Covered in pond weed, mud slipping off its coat, steaming in the sunshine. I RAN as fast as I could. I could feel its breath on my neck as I reached the gate and flew through it. I stumbled and looked up. Just the sky with white clouds scudding by. No water horse!

Open studios

Posted on November 7, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Eleanora street, Fine Art, Horse, Life, Open studios, Painting, Spode, Spode studio, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

Spode studios are having an open day this Saturday so I hope to be there to show off some of my newest ideas and paintings. It’s sometimes quite cold though so I will have to dress warmly. This horse painting has a pot for the potteries hidden in it. I’m not sure if I will stay in my studio or set up a little market stall so I can try and sell a few things. I will have to decide.

Animated?

Posted on October 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Animal, animate, animation, Art, Canter, Drawing, Gallop, Horse, Life, Movement, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was animate. I tried to work out how a horse runs and if I could try and draw overlapping images of them. I know there are books you can get that show you how to do animations but I just did this quickly without any reference. I’ve always enjoyed trying to draw horses, I have a basic idea of how they look. X

Horse painting

Posted on September 8, 2022September 8, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Fine Art, Horse, Life, Painting, Pattern, technique, TextureLeave a comment

As I listened to the continuing news of the Queen’s death I decided to recreate a digital drawing a couple of days ago as a painting. It’s not exactly the same, but yet again I’m focusing on pattern and trying out the experimental style that I have been using recently. See what you think?

I saw a horse

Posted on September 7, 2022September 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital art, Drawing, Fun, Horse, Idea, Life, Mane, Painting, Sketching3 Comments

I saw a horse in my digital drawing from earlier. It’s funny but I didn’t see it until I looked at a smaller version of the doodle. It’s a strange picture but I might turn it into a painting. I like the way the swirls look like a huge mane. I think I will get my paints out soon! Digital doodling over a photo of a felt pen sketch.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Horse