Tig, remembered

Posted on June 23, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Digital drawing, Drawing, Life, Memory, Sketchfu, Time, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Tig was a stray cat we took in several years ago. I loved his black nose and chin. I used to draw him at sketchfu and this was the drawing I did of him after he died. He was very bright and got up to all sorts of mischief. Our outdoor cat could be his son! The similarities in looks and behaviour, even their thick shiny, glossy coats.i

I do like drawing cats. Most of them are black and white, but we once had a ginger cat and when I was a child I had a tortoiseshell cat. I have lots of paintings and drawings. Seeing this brings back fond memories.

Tired

Posted on June 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged black and white art, Cross hatching, Drawing, Emotions, Faces, Life, Photodirector app, Sketching, Tired2 Comments

Just a black and white sketch of a face which I then did a small edit on through the photodirector app.

Yes I am a bit tired. But this is more about trying to draw emotions without a reference image. I can see a lot of mistakes, particularly where I’ve mirrored the image. The nose does not sit right, the shading is wrong. But I like using cross hatching. I like thin pens. I don’t think its too bad.

Missing photos

Posted on June 21, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, blog posts, Deleting photos, Life, Media, Memory, percentage, Photos, Thinking, Time, WordPressLeave a comment

I just checked my memory percentage on WordPress media and it was up to 96.4% well into the red! I am always up there recently because I like posting my own art here. It means that something has to happen so I have been deleting a few photos. I’m down to 96%. Please accept my apologies if there isn’t a picture on one of my older posts… I have to reduce them. I’m also possibly going to post smaller images xxx

Happy Cat

Posted on June 21, 2021June 21, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cat tales, gus:the theatre cat, Jellicles cats, Life, Poetry, t s Elliott, the naming of cats, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

She’s just come I from outside, curled up, happy, waiting for a belly rub.

Most of the cats I’ve had are black and white. So called ‘tuxedo’ cats. I think they may be the ‘Jellicles’ cats from the poem by T S Elliott who wrote ‘Old Possums book of Practical Cats’ which the musical ‘Cats’ is based on. I can’t remember much of that poem but it does say something about Jellicles cats ‘dance by the light of the moon’?

Other cat poems in the book include ‘McCafferty the Mystery Cat’, ‘Gus: The Theatre Cat’ and ‘The Naming of Cats’. I think they are much better as poems than adapted as songs.

Gold cat

Posted on June 17, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Birthday present, Cat, Fun, gold cat, Life, Sketching2 Comments

Birthday present I got on Sunday off a friend who knows I love cats. Gold acrylic paint and fine black ink liner pen. The prompt for this Thursday was a gift I received. #bandofsketchers

Speckled

Posted on June 17, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white cat, black fine liner pen, Cat, Drawing, Life, Sketching, speckled, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

I’m just catching up this week for #bandofsketchers so here’s my speckled drawing. Our outdoor cat. He’s actually black and white but I’ve drawn him in a pointellist way. I was interested in how the speckles changed direction as I drew…

A walk in the dark

Posted on June 17, 2021June 18, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Allotments, cemetery, Exercise, Fun, Hartshill, Life, limes allotments, Penkhull, Walk, WalkingLeave a comment

We waited till the sun had set before going for a walk last night. It had been too hot and humid to go out before that. We saw this sign above an allotment garden. There were also notes about a sensory garden for local people.

I only walked a couple of miles, but it was so quiet. Very few cars and the birds were silent. We could see clouds building up, but there was no rain.

What would I try and draw on our walk? Despite the dark there were some interesting trees. I could have sketched the way the streetlights illuminated them. Walking under their shadows was a bit hazardous, the tree roots are lifting the pavement.

The Cemetery had a large streetlight just outside the gate, but I didn’t feel like wandering about inside it. You don’t know what or who you might bump into…

(for some reason this post was queued, so I’m trying to post it again).

Passion flower

Posted on June 16, 2021June 16, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flower, Gardening, Green, Life, passionflower, Plant, Poem, Poetry, Purple, suffragette, White1 Comment

Fascinating flower

Full of passion

Enchanted star

Frilled and stellar

Surviving the coldull

Full faced like the sun

Blooming with mystery

Suffragette colours

Passionate

Strong.

Seven beech trees

Posted on June 15, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged beech trees, Gardening, Life, living sculpture, seven trees, Tree, Trentham Gardens, Visit4 Comments

Looking up at Seven beech trees entwined at the top. Inner branches trimmed and from the outside looking like a huge tree. Branches with leaves going down to the ground. There is a huge wooden bench inside in the middle.

Gate prompt

Posted on June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, Drawing, dry stone wall, Gate, Life, Sketching, TiredLeave a comment

#bandofsketchers prompt for Sunday was gate or stile.

I did a coloured drawing of this on the computer but when I tried to save it the computer crashed! Anyway this is a black and white drawing of a broken gate to a field. It was imagined because I couldn’t find a thing that was nice on the computer.

I wonder if the digital drawing I did is saved somewhere on my old PC. Anyway this is the best I can do.

Mallaband-Brown

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