Aitches

Posted on February 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged aitch, Birmingham, Learning, Life, pronounce, Pronunciation, Rhyme, School, Silly poem, teacher, The letter H2 Comments

When I was at school our teacher taught us a rhyme to remember how to pronounce the letter H (or ‘a itches are wrong’ it means you are dropping your H). It went like this:

Old Harry Oakes,

Host of the Hare and Hounds,

Has Hard, and Horribly Horny Hands!

We had to stand up and say this in class! I think it’s because we all had Birmingham accents and he wanted us to sound more middle class!

I can remember a few more rhymes and nursery rhymes that have popped into my mind recently. Is this a sign of getting old?

Stars

Posted on January 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Antique, Fun, Green, Learning, Pattern, Photo, Repetition, Stars, Stylised, TessellationLeave a comment

Green stars abstract. Using a photo of an illuminated star. Duplicating it then changing the textures. The resulting image is a colourful abstract with an antique feel to it.

Pattern again, I like repeating images and tessellations. Must be the way my mind works… I like to learn and play with things till they look good. X

Eye eye!

Posted on December 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Eye, Fun, Learning, Sketcher app, Sketching, Skills, TechniquesLeave a comment

I do like playing with images, as you can see! (literally and metaphorically). By playing with them I learn new techniques, skills, and expand my ideas. Just getting the reflection on this to seem to float above the ‘iris’, by having the background slightly darker it makes the reflection stand forward. It should probably be shaded to get an apparent curvature onto the front of the eye. I used simple tools in my sketcher app on my phone to achieve this.

dragon again

Posted on December 8, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged College, Design, Dragon, final major project, high contrast, Idea generation, Learning, Life, lino cut, PhotoshopLeave a comment

I’m still working towards my final major project at college. The project is a picture book with patterned pages on one side of the two page spreads and possibly strongly contrasting images like this one on the other side. Im thinking of trying out linocutting as a method of producing them ( could get very messy) or perhaps a photoshop technique I’ve never used before? All part of ideas generation…Probably both to show that I’m trying to widen my skills. I also need to resolve where the text will sit…. I might even get it published. I think time is not dra-gon-ing on! Its going too quick!

Making a Zine

Posted on November 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 64 pages, Art, College, Design, Editing, Fun, Learning, Life, Photos, Sketching, zineLeave a comment

Sixty four pages (32 images, 32 text) later. More glue and parcel tape than I can cope with. The parcel tape is white and has fragile written on it in big red letters.

I started by taping 32 a6 cards together with parcel tape, then gluing down an image and plain paper alternating with each other. My measurements were a bit off so some prints overlapped each other. The result works but is messy. I wrote on the blank sheets vaguely telling a story but it needs doing properly.

We will see what happens.

Echolalia

Posted on November 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged definition, echo, echolalia, Learning, repeat, speak, Talk, Thinking, Words6 Comments

The repetition of other people’s words or sounds is echolalia. When the toddler you babysit repeats everything you say, over and over again, you can call it “annoying,” or you can call it echolalia..

I looked this up because a friend would keep repeating what I said, what I said. I did not know why, know why…..

Apparently it’s something to do with psychiatric disorders or autism. I would not say my friend suffered from either of these. Perhaps it was a habit? I don’t know. It was incredibly annoying until I realised it was normal for my friend and learned to accept it.

I still love this meme

Posted on September 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Design, Education, Fine Art, Fun, Learning, Meme, Pattern, Thinking, Time2 Comments

1 in 5 teenagers experiment with art….I don’t know who created it, but I love it!

I shared this meme three years ago on Facebook because it spoke to me. Art is so important to the world. You need art to design things, to have an idea of what clothes, cars, white goods, trains, homes, workplaces will look like. Cutting funding for the arts hits theatre, performing arts, music, computer aided design, surface pattern, and so many other services that bring income into countries. It’s not just painting and sculpture, printmaking and textiles, ceramics and surface pattern. Artists and designers help support the world. Next time you use a plate to eat off, cutlery to eat with, use a table to sit at, wear clothes that fit you and are not grey tubes of rough cloth, then remember art helps to design out world.

Mending leg

Posted on September 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ache, calf, College, Fed up, Healing, Learning, Leg, Recovery, Time2 Comments

I’m still stuck downstairs in our little house but I have managed to get painkillers and pain relief gel from my doctors. Hopefully I will be upstairs soon but I tried the bottom step today. Hurts too much. Computer is upstairs…I still can’t do my college work. I’m not moaning but….. I’m getting more and more tired and fed up. The cat escaping didn’t help!

Pushing the envelope

Posted on August 13, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Design, Drawing, Experiment, Fun, Learning, Playing, pushing buttons, SketchingLeave a comment

Try drawing then putting that through as many filters as you can. Layering one idea over another, changing colours, tones, putting in lighting effects. Always try and do something new, different. Learn as you experiment. Know how you can change things.

My style?

Posted on July 16, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, College, freedom, Illustration, Learning, Playing, Speed, Time, transformedLeave a comment

A torch shines. It’s light illuminates a running figure. A trail of blood shows its steps.

This was a transformation we had to do in our illustration workshop this afternoon.

How to show up the image? I used post-it notes to show the shape of the surface as the figure is running across the floor. If I hadn’t had just 20 minutes I would have added a chequerboard pattern. As it was it was fun to do.

Mallaband-Brown

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