Penkhull tree.

Posted on April 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 6B, Art, Drawing, fine line ink pen, Life, Pencil sketch, silver pen, Sketching, Sunset, Trees, twenty minute sketchLeave a comment

My first outdoor sketch apart from in our garden or from a window or a photograph for a year. View of a tree on the Croft, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent.Drawn with a 6b pencil over about twenty minutes on our evening walk. I added black ink fine line pen and silver felt pen later.

#bandofsketchers spiral

Posted on April 25, 2021April 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Cabochon, Chain, coloured glass, Drawing, Life, metallic glass, Sketching, Wire weaving2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt.. Spiral.
Spiral of wire weaving my friend Deborah did for one of my glass cabochons I made at Angela Ashtons fused glass workshop a few years ago.

The wire weave and chain is a deep bronze colour, I couldn’t really do it justice. There are coloured glass and metallic effect glass in the cabochon.

I’m happy with the drawing, it’s not perfect but it does represent it.

Walking with closer to home.

Posted on April 24, 2021April 25, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Burslem, Exploring, Life, Photos, potteries loop line, Railway, sunny spring, Tired, Walk11 Comments

I went on a walk today with a group called closer to home. I couldn’t keep up all the way round their five mile walk but I did my best. You know a city is linked by main roads, but we went up old pathways, along the old track bed of a railway, the potteries loop line, and back along the canal.

Towards the end I found I was struggling, it was like I’d hit the wall, but I ket going and finished only a few hundred yards to the rear of the group. A friend walked along with me so it wasn’t too bad.

Freezias

Posted on April 23, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Freezias, Gardening, Green, Indoor plants, Life, Purple, Scent, Windowsill8 Comments

Just some spring flowers on the upstairs windowsill. Freezias smell lovely. Fresh scent. It’s nice to buy plants that are a bit different. They are indoor plants unless it’s warm enough outside (above 1°C). But as we are having continuous frosty nights I have kept them in.

Tonights portrait session

Posted on April 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Calligraphy pen, Five portraits, Fun, Life, Sketchbook, Sketching, students2 Comments

Five portraits, one five minutes and the other four are ten minute ones. Black calligraphy pen on cartridge paper. The lighting isn’t good so the paper looks a bit grey. People provided objects to add to the portraits. I really enjoy these sessions.

Zine

Posted on April 23, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged arrived today, Art, College, Fun, Life, monoprint, Printing, Riso, students, Work, zine2 Comments

Today my copy of Falmouth Zine arrived. Its the work of myself and fellow students, we all made self portraits using cut up pieces of monoprint. Then it was Riso printed and we now have the result.

Yes my self portrait looks nothing like me, but it was fun and experimental, and I learnt about making my own monoprint and how a Riso printer works, so yes it was worth having a go!

Smiling faces

Posted on April 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2019, Clouds, Life, Mountains, Pareidolia, Photo, Seeing faces, Snowdonia, Summer, Wales10 Comments

Smiling cloud faces, view of Snowdonia, Wales, UK , June I think, 2019. Wishing I was there now. We haven’t been able to visit for over a year because of Covid…I saw this again today and remembered how enjoyable it was just travelling, exploring, driving down roads I’d never been down before. I don’t mind not driving much, but I’d like to go to a few nice places again….

Remembered scary tree

Posted on April 21, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Childhood, Drawing, faded memories, History, Life, Memory, Sketching, Spooky, Time, TreeLeave a comment

Oh I used to run past this tree. I was convinced as a child that it was inhabited by a ghost. As part of this terms college work we had to remember some landscape from our childhood and this was what I thought of.

I’ve probably missed out trees and I can’t remember if there were houses in the background. But it will remain with me forever!

Mark making.

Posted on April 20, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, blue pencil crayon, College, Drawing, Fun, Learning, Life, Mark making, Sketching, Workshop7 Comments

Not a good photo, but this was me drawing different marks as part of a mark making workshop.

It was supposed to be in pencil but all I had was a blue pencil crayon. I also tried rubbing over the top of an embossed tin. You had to come up with as many different marks as you coukd in a five minute period. It gets your mind working… Good for creativity.

What are you doing to me wordpress?

Posted on April 19, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Age, Art, automatic car?, Confused, gears, Life, Poem, Poetry, Thinking, too many buttons4 Comments

Are you turning into instagram?

What are all these new buttons?

Easier or more complex?

My brain is struggling

To keep up with unwanted changes!

I was driving with gears

Now you’ve given me an Automatic

taken away the clutch

but not told me where the brakes are!

Is that fair?

I’m a blogger

not a programmer

or coder

or whatever

these newfangled things are?

Thanks?

1/10 so far….

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life