Artrage and photodirector

Posted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Black and white, Cat, Drawing, Fun, Illustration, Life, Photodirector, Picture, SketchingLeave a comment

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Drawn in artrage oils and edited in photodirector changing the colours and style.

This is what I mean about playing with are, yes this is a scrappy sketch, but it’s my scrappy sketch, amended and changed how I want. I would love to illustrate a book using a style like this. I could imagine creating pictures about a crazy cat in a children’s book.

I was once offered the opportunity to illustrate a book but the publishers woukd only allow the author to use an in house illustrator. I was very disappointed as I think I could have created a different atmosphere by working with her. Oh well….

Whale

Posted on May 23, 2020May 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Digital art, Drawing from ten years ago, Environment, Life, Nature, Picture, Sketchfu drawing, Whale2 Comments

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One of the animals I regret never having seen are Whales. I know they are endangered but I hope as life resumes that they will be left alone. I have the same feeling about Tigers and Elephants. But there are many creatures that most people have never seen that also are endangered. It doesn’t matter whether its the smallest or largest animal, each have their place in the Web of nature.

As lockdown is reduced, humans are going out and dumping fast food rubbish from their cars. Do they even care? It makes me really angry that eople have no consideration for the environment.

Anyway, rant over. Stay safe.

Colourful, today’s usk challenge.

Posted on May 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Colours, Drawing, Fun, Photo, Picture, Staffordshire, Urban sketch day 15, Usk challenge, Usk Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

Today’s challenge was to draw something colourful. My eyes fell on an owl sculpture by a blacksmith who works at a Forge at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent. She’s called Charis Jones and her company is called Sculpted Steel.

Behind the owl is a plate that my hubby painted at the Gladstone pottery museum in Longton.

I started by drawing the outlines in black ink. I then filled in the colours with permanent ink markers and a few coloured pencils.

The colours are not all accurate, but as the brief was colourful I added some to the books and cds in the background while trying not to overdo it.

I’ve included a reference photo to give you an idea of what I was working from.

When you can’t get a birthday card or a cake for a friend…

Posted on April 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Birthday card, Can, Candle, Candle holder, Card, Design, Drawing app, Graphics, Photo, Picture, Sketch app, Text3 Comments

I wanted to send a friend a card… sketch-1588070609298

I found a tin with a slight dent in the rim so I could push a candle holder into it. Then I added a tiny birthday cake candle and lit it and took the photo.

Added the text later in a sketch app.

I sent this to my friend with her name edited onto it. What is it they say ‘necessity is the mother of invention ‘?

Friends Thai Restaurant..

Posted on April 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Drawing, Food, Picture, Sawadee Thai taste, Sign, Stoke-on trent, Take away, Tasty food, Thai restaurantLeave a comment

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Just drawn this sign for my friends Thai Restaurant. Sawadee Thai Taste in Stoke-on-Trent. She has a hand written sign in biro saying she is doing take away. But no one can see it. So while I go and collect a meal I’m going to drop this off.

I think in these stressful times it’s important to help out, even though this is only a little help…

So many small local businesses are going to close with the virus impacting on them. I want to support what I can.

Doodling again

Posted on April 25, 2020 Posted in SketchingTagged Abstract, Art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Face, Learning, Picture, Sketching, Tablet2 Comments

I’ve been playing with a sketching app on my tablet, I haven’t used it very often, so the results are very experimental, I just tried as many pens and brushes as I could, some of them are difficult to work out. I decided to do something bold!

Two tier cats

Posted on April 11, 2020April 11, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Cats, Fun, Kitchen, Life, Photo, Picture, UpLeave a comment

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Two cats are taking over the kitchen. The boy is up on the cupboard, while the girl races towards me as soon as I get my phone to take their pictures. I just managed to snap this before she got to me.

I want to get out later on and try and get a photo of the cherry blossom in the garden. It’s just starting to burst, but the forecast is for the weather to get cold again in a couple of days so I hope the blossom stays safely furled till after the weather improves again.

Anyway the cat wants a love, so better go now. X

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