Horse

Posted on June 28, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, College, Corel Painter, Digital art, Drawing, Horse, Inspiration, Learning, Picture, Playing, Random, Sketch, WordPressLeave a comment

horse woodcut style painter

I’ve just downloaded a trial of Corel Painter Essentials 7

In English I mean I have downloaded a drawing package onto my computer. I hope it will be easy to use, I have got to explore it. What I ended up with after five minutes of playing is like a cave painting! so I guess that’s appropriate as I’m learning.

There are lots of things you can set on it, various AI things (artificial intelligence) like an AI Van Gogh. But I haven’t sussed out how to use them, I clicked on the buttons but wouldn’t say that I could see any difference to the mark making.

Later I’m going to read “Where the Wild Things are” by Maurice Sendak (if that’s how its spelled). Its a book I read in my childhood and I am interested in using it as part of a case study for my course, what fun!

Releasing my mind

Posted on June 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Doodle, Drawing, Environment, Illustration, Learning, Memory, Playing, Shibui, Sketch, Thinking, Time2 Comments

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I tried to draw a ‘real’ shibui. I’m not sure I’ve actually got the right idea, but anyway I started with an ink pen held lightly between thumb and forefinger. As I breathed I let the lines wander across the page. These are the purple marks. I even rested he pen on my hand and let it slide down in a wide, slightly jerky, motion…. Then I found ideas coming into my mind, faces, eyes, animals, a skull. Icecream, figures standing and crouching. I decided to add colour. I hope the drawing expresses emotion, and thought. I realised this morning that I had drawn environmental themes. These include a polar bear on cracking ice and a tree dying in the heat. A possible wolf skull and a blazing sun setting fire to the world… Its called Releasing my mind.
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Shibui

Posted on June 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Calm, Digital art, Drawing, Found ideas, Fun, Japanese design, Playing, Shibui5 Comments

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I’ve just been invited to join a page on Facebook about Shibui. A Japanese word that seems to mean calm and understated. The art there is ‘found’ with things like paint splatters or blown watercolour paint used to create images. Maybe trees, maybe flowers.

I had a go at creating something. I used my finger to draw on my the screen and created a digital image. Using a few apps to make something interesting. I want to find out more about the art form.

The owl and the pussycat

Posted on June 16, 2020June 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Funny, Humour, Playing, Poem, Poetry, Random, Rhyme, Short poem, Silly poem, Words2 Comments

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The owl and the pussycat went to sea

And found they couldn’t swim

They had to call the coastguard out,

The captains name was Jim.

He told them to get in his boat

It was a pretty sight,

An owl, a cat and one old stoat

With souwester and pipe.

Old drawings 2005

Posted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Digital art, Little drawings, Memories, Pictures, Playing, Youdraw, Youdraw.comLeave a comment

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I was mooching about my PC looking for old pictures that had been saved onto it before I had to have it fixed. Well after ages of searching I found the old drive they are on. It comes with a timeline, so I can find when they were posted. These are a few of my drawings from Youdraw in 2005. I also helped moderate the site. Apparently its been upgraded. When I’ve got my new drawing tablet I might draw some more.

Fun

Posted on May 14, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white sketch, Cat, Cat toy, Challenge, Drawing, Fun, Playing, Pouncing, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Following the cat theme.

As she is so quick, I had to take a quick photo of her, then I drew her and added in the background. The toy has cat nip in it, it’s fun for her to chase and jump.

Urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent challenge, day 26….5b pencil in an A4 cartridge paper sketch pad.

Be the moon…

Posted on May 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged "moon" photo, Friends, Fun, Humour, Loo roll, Me as the moon, Photo, Playing, Something to do, Space, Toilet roll tubeLeave a comment

Turn yourself into the moon! With a toilet roll. My friends in Australia are doing this. Third one I added some dots for stars and sprayed black around the third on in a sketcher app.

Funny how you can create things so simply. I found the most difficult thing was to line it up, I took a few photos and on a lot of them I could see the blue paintwork in our bathroom. Plus it’s exposing my face to the world! Don’t laugh too much!

Dragon in my sketchbook?

Posted on May 8, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Doodle, Dragon, Drawing, Life, Playing, Random, SketchLeave a comment

The dragon flew into my sketchpad from my imagination tonight. I was watching a series called Merlin on TV and it just sort of happened. The purple ink pen went a bit splodgy.

The world is still in lockdown. People want to escape but its not safe. So playing with glitter glue, ink pen and felt pens is just taking my mind off it. Then edited it to a negative image to be a bit different.

Playing with photos

Posted on May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Filters, Fun, Learning, Photo, Photo editing app, Playing6 Comments

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Thanks to a friend I’ve just found another app to play with. It seems relatively easy to use. But as this is my first ever use of it I think I will try and get a bit more used to it before I review it or tell you what it’s called. I have a feeling I might seriously mess something up. Seems much more interactive than previous apps I have used, but that might not be a good thing.

Disco ball

Posted on April 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Design, Experiment, Fun, Learning, Photo, Playing, Poem, Poetry, ThoughtLeave a comment

I shone a bright torch on our disco ball (yes I’ve got one) took a photo, then another one with the torch on a lower power. Duplicated the photos, and ended up with a couple of interesting pictures that are quite abstract…..

Playing with shapes and light is fun.

Experimental things teach you

How to make new things.

If you don’t try,

You never learn….

Mallaband-Brown

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