Two clicks and a crop

Posted on December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged App, Art, Digital manipulation, grunge, murmuration, Photodirector, Sketching, Style, Sunset, TextureLeave a comment

My earlier ‘hope’ drawing with one lot of added texture, a smudge of gundge, then cropped to cut out my writing at the top. It’s amazing how quickly you can change something by just altering them slightly in an app. In this case I used photodirector. It’s OK, some of the stuff on it is too advanced for what I want, but I just use the simple stuff that’s free. What I don’t like is how a lot of art sites charge a monthly fee instead of letting you buy a package like you could in the past. Over time it adds up, and I can’t afford that.

Saturated

Posted on December 24, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, Colours, Digital filter, Edited, Leaf, Life, Photodirector, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

Just tried adjusting the colours on this leaf, then decided to write a poem.

Saturated leaf

Bright and breezy

Fell from a tree

Really was easy

Just one blow

A puff of wind

Made the leaf

Fall, descend.

Before the mud

Washed the colours away

Gave it some highlights

Using filters to play.

Sketch and texture

Posted on December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink fine line pen, Drawing, Fun, Life, Photodirector, rushes, Sketching, Trees, Trentham GardensLeave a comment

I tried adding texture with photodirector to this little drawing I did at Trentham Gardens in 2017. I like the way the rushes stand forward slightly more in the digitally adjusted one. I have a ‘go to’ style in Photodirector, I go to the effects option then generally choose option two or sometimes six. That seems to concentrate and texturise the drawing.

Sea urchins?

Posted on December 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Fun, Glitter glue, Layout app, Pattern, Photodirector, sea urchin, SketchingLeave a comment

Playing with pattern again. Red and green complementary colours using glitter glue. I used photodirector again to add texture and also to warp it slightly. Then I used layout to multiply the images. I think it looks a bit like sea urchins?

Branches

Posted on December 2, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged @mallabandbrown, Art, Digital art, Fun, Instagram, Pattern, Photodirector, tree branches2 Comments

Pattern made from tree branches manipulated digitally. I could list all the steps but that might be boring. I like adding different steps to see what the outcome is. I have saved a lot of these on Instagram @mallabandbrown

I add a lot of art there and here, it’s always there. I may not be painting a great deal but I do like playing with patterns. What I want to do is print out some of them but they didn’t look good on ordinary paper, the ink sunk in and was not very glossy. Perhaps I should use photographic paper?

Shift

Posted on December 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Autumn, Digital drawing digital editing, Felt pens, Photodirector, shift, WinterLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Shift.., I drew a quick sketch of a tree losing its leaves then snow and snowflakes using felt pens on some photography paper. Finally added digital texture with photodirector to give it cohesion.

Spooky self portrait

Posted on November 29, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Creepy, Digital manipulation, digital photography, Instagram, Photodirector, Photograph, ventriloquists dummy, woodenLeave a comment

Late night self portrait. Playing with filters on photodirector and Instagram. Trying to get the exposure right so it was dark enough but the highlights on my eyes, nose and mouth stood out. It looks almost wooden, like a ventriloquists dummy. I could have looked out from the photo but I think that would have creeped me out more!

Can you see a dragon?

Posted on November 24, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Dragon, Fun, Layout app, Life, Mirrored, Pattern, Photodirector, plastic dots, TextureLeave a comment

Messing about with plastic dots glued down, then worked on it in layout app (a mirroring app) and then photodirector to change the texture and twist the perspective. Back to layout to mirror the result. Different colours and patterns seemed to create a horned dragon at the centre. I can see his nose and eyes, although part of his face appears hidden…. Having fun…

Moon

Posted on November 15, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Daylight, History, Moon, neighbouring, Photodirector, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, SkyLeave a comment

Far away – spy

Daylight moon fly

Pale blue and white

Clouds billow out

Craters are hidden

Mares unbidden

Lie in bright sunlight

Lost in the day, bright

Sea of tranquility

We had ability

Moonlanding site

A spectacular flight.

Apollo was lord

Of our neighbouring world.

Swirls

Posted on November 11, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Addicted to art, Artrage oils, Design, Digital art, Fun, Life, Mandala, Pattern, Photodirector, SketchLeave a comment

Swirls drawn digitally. Artrage oils and photodirector. Draw swirls then play with editing options. You can do all sorts of things with digital apps. I feel like this is a little like a coral surface or a Mandala.

Pattern again, my thing, I suppose I will never get enough of it. Something happens in my brain and I have to do this. I’m addicted to art and patterns. I love convolutions.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Photodirector