Phone doodles

Posted on February 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Biro, Drawing, Faces, Fun, metallic pens, Patterns, Phone doodlesLeave a comment

Do you doodle when you are on the phone? I do if I’m on my phone. Its funny what comes into my mind. Mainly faces, patterns, thoughts.

These were drawn in biro on an old envelope. Sometimes I use italic pens or metallic ones. I tend to fill up all the space. I don’t remember when I did these. A few years ago?

And why not draw doodles? The more you practice art the better you can get. It also helps understanding what you are doing. I talk to myself sometimes as I draw to work out where I want to place features on a face for example.

Clouds

Posted on January 31, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Blues, Clouds, Infinity, Life, Patterns, Poems, Poetry, Reflections, Skies, ThinkingLeave a comment

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Feathers, bold, blues new,

Trees and lamps, float above,

Mirror wings , fly out phantom birds.

Swoop over head, peck at the sky.

Field of blue, arching inwards,

Nearer than infinity, but far.

Find your reflection, on the wind,

Life eternal, changing, clouds scattered.

Pattern

Posted on January 17, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Design, Digital art, Digital drawings, Drawing apps, Pattern, PatternsLeave a comment

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Colours, shapes and texture make up this pattern. Using digital apps can create images that would not be easy to create on paper or canvas. img_20190117_002155

Once you have done that you could use another app to duplicate and twist the images. I love patterns and continue to create images like this.

It’s really not hard to do and it would be good to see more art being created in this way. Be brave! Have a go! You might surprise yourself.

Some of my paintings from 2018

Posted on December 30, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylics on canvas, Art, Blogging, Design, Fun, Instagram, Life, New year, Patterns, Photos6 Comments

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Everyone seems to be posting 9 of their best pictures on Instagram at the moment. I don’t know what app they are using so I just posted these. Mainly commissions plus my stall which I had at Spode earlier this month.

So I hope you all have a lovely New Year’s Eve and a great 2019!

Finding butterflies 🦋

Posted on December 30, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Design, Digital doodles, Humour, Morphing drawings, Patterns, Shapes2 Comments

Sometimes I see something and I know it could be morphed into something else. Here I took a picture of railway lines and turned it into a pattern for a butterfly.

It also appears to me like a horses head tipped down and facing right. I might have a go at morphing it into that image.

Patterns spark my interest. As a child I woukd make faces and animals by looking closely at patterned wallpaper or see dragons or Pegasus in the clouds.

I’m glad a dreamer. I would encourage anyone to look at the shapes around them. Pattern is embedded in the Universe. You only have to look at the spiral shell of a snail to imagine galaxies or whirlpools.

Encaustic

Posted on September 30, 2018September 30, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Encaustic, Hot wax, Patterns, WaxLeave a comment

Encaustic is using a small hot iron to melt wax. You then used the iron to place it onto thick card and move it around until you have made a picture. I tend to draw patterns with it I like the arched shapes and feathered patterns you can make with the pointed end of an iron.

Other things you would need are newspaper to place the cards on while you are working with hot wax. Pointed heated styluses to draw into and with the wax, a fire blanket to place underneath everything. Cloth to clean the iron between different colour waxes and also soft cloth to burnish the final peice and bring out the shine of the wax.

Our set has about two dozen colours so there can be plenty of choices of wax to create different patterns.

I learnt to do this from one of the workshops our art group organises from time to time.

Spiralling

Posted on August 29, 2018August 29, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Fun, Humour, Patterns, Poetry, SpiralLeave a comment

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S p i r a g l n l i

o u t o f c . . o . . n . t l r o

I love spirals,

Twirling round and far,

Spiral buns and spiral suns

And spiral galaxies.

I love

Spirals…..

Twisting round

My tongue… making

Tornadoes . .

And hurricanes . .

Fly around .

The land.

Mallaband-Brown

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