A face

Posted on January 15, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Drawing, Ears, Eyes, Face, Fine Art, Learning, Mouth, Nose, SketchingLeave a comment

Making up faces, good practice if you don’t have anyone to draw. You can work out eye shapes and sizes, how would a long or short nose look? Big or small mouth thin or thick lips? Are the ears visible? How long or wide is the face, what shaped chin.

Drawing is a skill, practice does help. 10,000 hours is meant to make you an expert. Millimeters can change things, hair, makeup, colour, looking in different directions. Up down, sideways, three quarter view.

Please keep working, practicing, enjoy it.

Nose

Posted on April 18, 2024April 18, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged App, Art, Artrage, Drawing, Life, Metallic, Non metallic, Nose, philtrum, Sketching, Stylus2 Comments

Nose is one of the recent #bandofsketchers prompts. I couldn’t resist trying to draw a nose from my imagination. The bit that goes in underneath is called the philtrum. Artrage app stylus painting. I used a metallic gold flood fill to start with, then used non metallic colours and pens.

Stare

Posted on April 17, 2024April 17, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Ears, Food, life eyes, Looking, Mouth, Nose, Stare, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Cats stare, they hardly blink, a slow closure of their eyes sometimes, or eyes tight shut, but you know they have half an eye checking out whats going on.

Ears pricked, listening for the rustle of a packet of food, the rip as you open it. They know the sound of a tin opening and releasing the smell of food.

Nose twitches, whiskers flex, mouth ready. Time for tea. And they move quickly when they tune into the signals you send them.

Saw a face

Posted on March 16, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eye, Face, Mouth, Nose, Pareidolia random, Pattern, Peeling paint, Photo, Thought2 Comments

Is it me? Or does this peeling paint image remind you of the scream by Edvard Munch? Or even the screaming face mask from the horror film?

Two eyes with massive eyebrows, a tiny nose and a long deep mouth. I see faces everywhere, another example of Pareidolia, seeing faces or creatures in randomly placed shapes or patterns.

Ow!

Posted on November 11, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back door, boot, car door, cut, Face, Life, Nose, Ouch, ow, Sore, Spode4 Comments

Ow! I was getting some paintings out of the car boot today and I pulled the door down and hit my nose. It really hurt so I rubbed it as you do and everything seemed OK. I hadn’t hit the bridge of my nose. So nothing broken. I went into Spode and priced up my work. Hubby didn’t tell me I had a cut on my nose. I spoke to several people, no mention! Either I looked so rough that they didn’t want to say anything, or it didn’t look that bad, or they were just very polite. Anyway, I only noticed it because it’s started to hurt and it felt rough under my finger, so yes, ouch!

Hay-fever

Posted on June 26, 2022June 26, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, fields, Grass, growing up, Hay, Life, Nose, Pollen, running eyes, School, sneezingLeave a comment

Today is dry and windy. I might go out later but the pollen count is very high. I’m allergic to grass pollen. It started when I was a child, I would wake up with ‘sleep in my eyes’ gunged up with mucus. Then I did a painting in situ in the school playing fields, I was drawing and painting a van dumped on the field. In the week it was there I sat and drew it most lunchtimes. By the end of that week I had full blown hay-fever! I think it was because the grass was really tall and was distributing pollen.

Nowadays there are much better antihistamines, eye drops and nasal sprays. Thank goodness, the situation without them would be horrible. I walked past a garden full of overgrown grass a few years ago and I could not breathe! Sneezing, running eyes, all of the symptoms. I had to buy hay-fever tablets straight away to calm it down.

Symmetry

Posted on June 14, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Cat, Clouds, Eyes, Faces, Fun, Green, Nose, Pattern, Sky, SymmetryLeave a comment

The things I can see when I add symmetry. A large green nose? Frowning eyes? A butterfly, a cats face? Two faces in profile looking downwards. There’s probably more that you can see too. Human eyes are always looking for patterns, shapes, looking out for monsters or problems. I guess it depends where you place the connection between the two sides. You can get more or less pattern by changing the centre line. I think there is also a 3d feeling because of where the hedge in the center is positioned.

Bear drinking?

Posted on September 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Animal, Art, Bear, Design, Digital art, Drawing, Nose, Play, Sheep, Sketch, Wolf, WoolLeave a comment

Playing with a pattern and creating a bear. Mouth down in the water, drinking from a stream. It was almost a sheep but them I added a big nose. I digitally drew over a pattern I had hand drawn on paper. Then mirrored the images. I think it could also be a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Pareidolia in a tion again.

Hay-fever eye

Posted on June 11, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Breeze, Eye, Hay-fever, Nose, Photodirector, Poem, Poetry, PollenLeave a comment

Itch! Eyelashes scratch

Nose running

So fast

Doing 100 meter

Dash!

Red and bloodshot

The pollen high

A cloud of dust

Flowing in the sky

Need eye drops

Nose spray

Tablets too

You won’t beat me

Hay-fever, you!

#bandofsketchers prompt unusual angle

Posted on March 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Funny, Nose, nostrils, pencil crayon, Sketching, Tuesdays prompt2 Comments

Today’s band of sketchers prompt was unusual angle. So I took a photo and now I have to look up my nose! Pencil crayons and fine liner pen.

Mallaband-Brown

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