Conkers

Posted on November 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bodnant garden, Conkers, Garden, Memory, Past, Photo, Photo still life, Picture, Time, Trees, WalesLeave a comment

Still llife photo of conkers. Photo taken last year at Bodnant Garden in North Wales last year. What a great trip out that was. We walked round the large garden grounds. Down into the river valley, past huge and ancient trees. Late flowering perennials and bushes. Its a charming place to visit, but be aware it is hilly. Its a National Trust site so its very well maintained. There are small shops trading there, a garden centre and a cafe/restaurant.

Great for a visit when the garden is in full bloom, especially the laburnum walk. You can join the National Trust or pay when you visit. BUT check opening times, it does close in the winter and with the lockdown for the pandemic there will be changes to visiting and probably closures.

Ginger beer

Posted on October 28, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Ginger beer, New version?, Photoshop, Picture, Sketch, The LudfordLeave a comment

Digital sketch I drew in my old version of photoshop. I really ought to get the new version. The one I use was published in 2002 but I’m very nervous of changing because of the cost and whether I would still understand it. Maybe I should look into it instead of umming and ahhing. I need to find out what advantages it would give me. My old photoshop is glitchy, when I get near the edges of a drawing it suddenly will only draw straight lines at 90° to the sides. It never used to bother me, but as I use it more it bothers me…. Anyway enough moaning….

Spooky

Posted on October 27, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Crinkly, Digital drawing, Digital editing, Ghostly, Motorbike cover, Picture, SpookyLeave a comment

Take a photo of a crinkly motorbike cover, shade areas to make a face appear. Use the spray brush tool and a colour picker tool in a drawing app to match in shapes and colours. Add shapes using various pens like chalk or wax crayon options if you have them in your app. Then change the filter to a more black and white/ sepia effect. Finally use a filter to make some areas more fuzzy than others.

Voila you have a spooky, ghostly figure.

Nail varnish cat

Posted on October 25, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Cat on mat, Children's book illustration?, Colour, Design, Drawing, Glossy, Illustration, Nail varnish, Picture, SketchingLeave a comment

Late last night I decided to colour in a drawing with nail varnish. I did a picture of ‘the cat sat on the mat’, then I coloured in the background with marker pens.

I had difficulty taking a photo I wanted to include the sheen of the varnish but could only get it with the page tipped up. When you look at it straight on the image is a lot flatter. It’s just a design based on the old cat sat on the mat idea. I can imagine it being used as a children’s book illustration.

My friend

Posted on October 22, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Drawing, Face, Female artists, Fine line pen, Friend, Picture, Portrait, Sketching, Woman artists2 Comments

Just done this black and white sketch of my friend. Using a not very good black fine line unipoint pen (almost run out). Reminds me how much I love doing portraits. Getting the eyes right is my main intention. I struggled to draw her hair.

Pattern

Posted on October 11, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Creative, Design, Layout app, Like stained glass, Nail varnish, Patterns, PictureLeave a comment

I ddo like creating patterns, so I used the drawing I did earlier to create something different. Bits of it remind me of Tiffany glass or stained glass pieces. If you rotate and twist the images you get something new each time… I will be using up the rest of my nail varnishes to create new images.

Basis for a drawing

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Drawing, Life, Photo, Picture, Shade, shadow, Sketching, ViewLeave a comment

This was the view I was looking at when I did my Sketch earlier on. As you can see things were a lot darker in reality. I looked more at the shapes, concentrating on drawing them in first, then adding trees and branches afterwards. The silver grey seems to sit back in the background, the tones do not match this photo but does that matter? I keep drawing and hope I’m progressing. X

Band of sketchers prompt. Industrial

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Drawing, Front door, Metallic colours, Picture, Portmeirion pottery, Sketchbook, ViewLeave a comment

View out of my front door of Portmeirion pottery. Tried to emphasise the trees. Actually sat in the car as I was letting all the warm air out of the house. I used a gold and a silver pen and a slightly metallic blue and green to make it more interesting. If you’ve got to live opposite a factory I prefer something like this with some trees rather than completely blank walls and nasty smells!

Hubby’s drawings

Posted on October 2, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apedale, Art, Cottage, Creativity, Drawing, Hubby, Lake district, Life, Mountains, Picture, Train2 Comments

It’s great to see his drawings, he doesn’t draw very often and definitely has his own style. He bought himself a drawing kit with a drawing board, (a piece of card) some different harnesses of pencils, an eraser and a pencil sharpener. The pictures were his own ideas, the mountainous one is from the cover of a book about the lake district, and the train drawing is taken from a picture on the cover of a leaflet from the Apedale railway. I hope he does more. I’m going to buy him a sketch pad.

If anyone wants to watch some drawing techniques go over to my friend Martha Kennedy’s WordPress pages. Sorry I don’t have a link, I will try and find one. She has done some drawing tutorials over on YouTube.

Raining

Posted on September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Digitally manipulated, Editing photos, Life, Photo, Photodirector, Picture, Poem, Poetry, Random, View, WetLeave a comment

Rained all day,

today,

poured down,

persisted it down,

grey clouds,

lower than the tree tops,

streaks of water on the windows,

birds needing shelter,

sparrows soaked,

don’t go out,

keep warm and dry.

Mallaband-Brown

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