My friends photo

Posted on May 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged aviary, Brampton museum and art gallery, Memory, Mondrian, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Pattern, PhotoLeave a comment

I was out with my friend and wanted to take some photos of the birds in an aviary, but my phone camera was playing up. My friend sent me a few of her pictures. I like this photo she took of a pheasant? Mostly I like the composition, it reminds me of a Mondrian painting and although the bird is not square or oblong shaped the red black and white add a pop of interest in response to the more muted colours in the background.

Taken when we were having tea and scones at the Brampton museum and art gallery in Newcastle under Lyme a couple of weeks ago.

Pattern prompt

Posted on April 28, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Pattern, Photodirector, Prompt, sketchbook app, Sketching, symmetrical, TreeLeave a comment

For #bandofsketchers prompt pattern, I was playing with a previous digital drawing. I altered it in my Sketchbook app on my phone to add more symmetrical patterns and lines, then I adjusted it in photodirector.

Silver birch face

Posted on April 27, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged bark, Close up, Face, Painting ideas, Pareidolia, Pattern, Photo, Silver birch, TreesLeave a comment

My friend took this photo for me as the camera on my phone keeps glitching. I’m part way through painting a green woman for someone and I want the background behind her to be trees.

There are silver birches in the grounds of the community centre where I attend our art group so we went out and I chose the trees I wanted pictures of. It helps to see the shapes of their trunks and branches instead of trying to imagine them. The details of the bark are fascinating and I hope to try and reproduce the patterns.

I’ll post a photo of the work in progress later but I want to tidy it up a bit first, it’s a bit like a mediaeval illustration at the moment, I need to make it more subtle.

I think there’s a bit of Pareidolia going on here as I can see a face in the tree bark.

Digitally

Posted on March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1889, Design, Digitally manipulated, Life, Pattern, Photodirector app, SketchingLeave a comment

How has technology changed your job?

My ‘job’ isn’t really one, I don’t make sufficient money to make it worthwhile so I guess it’s more like a hobby. But as digital technology has improved I have been able to include it more into my art and mark making.

This image started as a digital drawing in Artrage. I then ran it through filters on the photodirector app several times which came up with this image of a tree. I like being free to experiment with art and seeing what results.

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.

Springs coming

Posted on February 20, 2024February 20, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Colour, Design, Digital art, Fun, Life, Love, Memory, Pattern, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, SpringLeave a comment

Flowers are coming

So is the green

Hoping I’m grinning

When they are seen

Multicoloured blooms

Loom out of the gloom!

Daisies and daffodils

And snowdrops too

Reflecting a sky

Of brilliant blue!

Pattern

Posted on February 19, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Colour, Digital drawing, Display, Drawing apps, Pattern, Photodirector, Rainbow, Sketching, WindowLeave a comment

I do like a pattern, abstract, curves

Colours and shapes

All in a swirl

Like a pine cone

Or succulent

Fibonacci shaped

Helical twisting

Rainbow

Or window

Sweet.

Spooky lights

Posted on February 17, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eyes, Fun, Imagination, Life, Lights, Mouth, Pareidolia, Pattern, Pink, seeing things, TheatreLeave a comment

I saw this at tonight’s performance and it made me chuckle. The way the lights are set up looks like eyes and a mouth. The shadow above like a set of long wolf like ears! The pinkness is really dramatic.

I have always seen faces and patterns in everyday shapes. Like paintings of flowers that look like lions to me, or the spindly abstract pattern of tree branches turning into a galloping horse. It’s a phenomenon called Pareidolia.

This could also be a riotous robot, a frankenstein style monster, or a dancing ghost, see what I mean?

Catty

Posted on February 11, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Fun, Happy, incollage, Life, Pattern, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Sweet boy

I see him smile

His eyes crinkle

His nose soft

White paws and socks

Whiskers bright

He loves me, is happy

No claws today

Except in the new chair

But I forgive

Purr…

Then grab a toy

And play!

Alien?

Posted on January 26, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Alien, Art, ArtRage app, Design, Digital drawing, Experiment, Finger painting, Fun, Pattern, Sci fi, Stained glass2 Comments

Playing with Artrage again. I started out trying to create something like a stained glass window, but it morphed into a more sci-fi style image x

Mallaband-Brown

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