Brainstorming

Posted on March 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Collaboration, Doodle, Experiment, Exploring, Fun, Heuristic, Learning, Lecture, mind map, WebinarLeave a comment

Today I had a workshop on brainstorming. Coming up with ideas based on the word heuristic (first we had to read the definition) turns out it’s to do with finding out about things, collaboration, experimentation, investigation. Do we thought if sherlock Holmes, detecting things, doing research, being nosy. Bugging things, bookworms, learning, library, eyes, investigating the universe….

The doodle? That was drawn last night while I was trying to come up with ideas for an editorial brief… Its not anything to do with today, just something abstract.

Portrait group tonight…

Posted on March 5, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Colour, Drawing, five minute drawings, Illustration, Learning, Life, neon, portrait group, post it notes, SketchingLeave a comment

Tonight we had to sketch each other in hats. I decided to use post it notes as a background, with graphite stick and black ink calligraphy pen. My mistake was not to glue the squares down, so as these were five minute sketches I had to glue before I coukd draw! One if them I deliberately didn’t stick down so I could move the pieces around after I’d finished drawing….

Apparently Goldfish CAN count.

Posted on February 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animals, Birds, Education, Goldfish, intelligent, Learning, Mammals, Maths, Primates, Responsibility, WorldLeave a comment

Sorry not to have a photo of a goldfish! Having a chat with hubby this morning, and he’d read an article that goldfish can count. It makes me realise how much we don’t know about the animal kingdom. How intelligent animals are. I’ve been watching a TV programme by Chris Packham about animal genius. Birds such as the Corvid family using tools, also otters and primates. So many animals that we are not aware of. We must continue to pay attention to these things. Learning how intelligent life is not just the domain of humans. For too long we have regarded ourselves as top of a pyramid of animals, as superior. We need to be more caring and take on the responsibility to look after them, not persecute them. But not because goldfish can count, but because whether they can or not, we need to look after our home, our planet.

Mark making workshop

Posted on February 24, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged College, Drawings, Graphite stick, Learning, Lecture, mark making workshop, putty rubber, SketchingLeave a comment

Quick sketches using a graphite stick and a putty rubber to lift the graphite back for a mark making workshop. The small sketch was 2.5 minutes drawn with the graphite stick held between my little finger and ring finger. The woman with the octopus was ten minutes and the floating man was fifteen minutes. The man’s head was just made up as I listened to the lecture…

Second ‘set’

Posted on February 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Doodle, Drawing, Fun, Learning, Playing, Sci fi, SketchLeave a comment

based on my first ‘set’ drawing, this has changed into more of a landscape. Playing with sci-fi characters. I think I’m going slightly mad. I’m reading the brief and I’m supposed to draw again based on this…. I’m not sure what I will do next.

Signs and signifiers

Posted on February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Fun, icons, Illustration, Learning, Semiotics?, Sketching, symbolsLeave a comment

Today we were looking at the meanings of illustrations and signs, whether they are iconic (cat mug) a symbol (swimming badge?) or another option that I can’t remember! I get a bit tied up with these ideas, I will get it, I know, but just trying to explain it makes my head hurt.

Anyway it’s surprising how much illustration there is around us. My favourite is the Ludford Ginger bottle. What had the train got to do with it?

Single line drawing

Posted on January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged college exercise, drawing from a podcast, Hand eye coordination, Learning, Life drawing, Sketching, Skills, Time2 Comments

One of our exercises this week. Drawing with one continuous line without looking at the page, just the computer screen! A slim model changes shape! How is it possible to get a likeness? But it’s not about that, it’s trying to get your hand and eye to coordinate without your brain getting involved. Weird, but I like it!

Stone monoliths

Posted on January 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Experiment, Ink roller, Learning, Sketching, soft pencils, stone monoliths, Stones, ThinkingLeave a comment

Playing with an ink roller that you would use to cover over your address on documents and used soft pencil on top…. Stones, posted in a page on Facebook about Grayson Perry’s Art club…

Trying to draw trees

Posted on January 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autodesk, Digital drawing, Imagination, Landscape, Learning, Playing, Practice, Sketcher free, Trees2 Comments

Two seperate apps, Sketcher free and Autodesk. I don’t often draw with these, they have different tools and I’m not really up to speed with them. But you never learn if you don’t practice. Also if I don’t use my tablet it gets clogged up with updates….so here they are, a couple of practice pieces,

Quiz night on Zoom

Posted on January 21, 2021January 29, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Difficult, Fun, hard, Learning, Life, Memory, Questions, Quiz, ThinkingLeave a comment

That was hard! After winning last time we could only come third this time with devilish questions.

Who knew a Cria is a baby Alpaca? Not a baby Llama by the way.

You had to know the scores on Scrabble tiles for heavens sake. I thought William Shakespeare had a score of 30? it was 32.

We came close, 43.5 against 48. Some inspired guesses, but who knew the train line across Australia is called the Gan, which in turn is based on the old name for camel trains?

These questions keep getting harder!

Mallaband-Brown

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