Love

Posted on April 2, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged ball, Cat, Fun, Humour, Love, Loving, Playing, Sleep, Tennis ballLeave a comment

She likes climbing up on the airer to have a love, she rubs her cheek against my hand, pushing her nose into my palm. The tower of trays in the background is where she sleeps, curled up above the warm radiator.

Paws on the towel, staring at me. Looking for a cuddle, or sometimes her cat biscuits. She’s a lively cat. She chases toys like a professional footballer. Rolling a tennis ball along with one small front paw. Goal! She pushes it under the sideboard. I act as goalie and fish it back out again.

A graceful gracious cat…

Sketch idea

Posted on March 25, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink marker, Cartridge paper, Colouring, Design, Drawing, Experimenting, Felt tip pens, Fun, Pencil crayons, Playing, SketchingLeave a comment

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I did the first drawing on Monday, a simple cat sketch, I coloured it with felt tip pens, but the ink bled through the paper, so I got a reversed image on the back of the page.

I decided to experiment and added some bright colours with pencil crayons . Then I got a black ink pen and outlined the gradations of colours in the drawing. Made it interesting…. Its something I’ve done before in paintings, I enjoyed doing it. X

Fork draw

Posted on March 19, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on paper, Art, Blogging, Cat, Day to day, Fork, Fork drawing, Messing about, Metallic paint, Painting, Playing, WordPressLeave a comment

Things to do at a loose end… I was asked to try and draw something with a fork for a Facebook group, I don’t know whether anyone else had a go? .. Well it ended up being a sort of forking cat! It was fun, but the acrylic paint didn’t make much of a mark, I tried adding water and then it splodged!

No doubt I will be posting more weird images as the days go on.

Photo manipulation

Posted on March 11, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Adam and God, Cat, Doodle, Fun, Hand, Layout app, Life, Manipulation, Photo, Playing, SniffLeave a comment

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The finger and the nose never touched. This is two photos, joined together, then I’ve drawn over the background and blurred it. I got my hubby to hold his hand out, a bit like in the painting of Adam and God’s hands in the Sistine Chapel, then I got my cat to sniff my hand, but I specifically wanted a male hand, so I’ve cropped the two together. I’ve blurred the background to look like clouds (and hide the messy background). I’m just wondering now if it’s gone a bit ‘ET phone home’?

The pale blue is where I drew a line. I tried to flood fill the background, but it didn’t work well. Anyway it’s almost 3.30am, so enough experimenting. Goodnight all.

Rocking horse

Posted on March 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Digital drawings, Drawing, Filters, Fun, Humour, Inspiration, Learning, News, Playing, Rocking horse, Sketcher freeLeave a comment

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Another of my digital drawings, and variations by using filters.

I tend to try different filters to see what the results are. Can you flip the image? Change the background? Alter the hue, colours, brightness, contrast, size, sharpness, solidity, edges.. Make a change, if you don’t like it click the back button, or save it and put another filter over it. When I had photoshop I used all sorts of filters that I don’t have now. But what I have on this small phone is so much more than I had on one of my early smart phones. You just have to try it out.

Green Woman self portrait

Posted on February 29, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Design, Fun, Green woman, Leaves, Painting, Playing, self portraitLeave a comment

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Suddenly I’m painting again! I decided to do something with this picture. It was only roughly worked out. I decided I wanted to make a self portrait as a green woman. I used a photo of myself on my phone and overlaid leaves onto it. I don’t know if it’s finished but I liked trying to bring out the shaping and shadows on it.

Sitting in the living room, I should go down the studio, but my cold is worse. Anyway I will work on another partially painted picture.

More trees

Posted on January 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawings, Experiment, Fun, Playing, SketchLeave a comment

IMG_20200120_193348_455 IMG_20200120_193440_105 IMG_20200120_193418_085 I’m sitting here working with my digital drawings because my hip is still playing up so I’m missing choir practice. My hubby is just making a loaf and I’m going to bake some potatoes later so the house warms up.

Once you have done a drawing you don’t have to stick with that image, you can alter the hue, change positive to negative and find the edges of the image. Experiment is good. X

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