WIP, is he finished?

Posted on November 27, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Commission, Composition, Dog, fur, Life, Painting, Portrait, Work in progress4 Comments

On the easel today. I think this is almost done, one of the legs and the side of the body feels clunky. It’s basically that the leg on the right side might need bringing inwards a bit, so it doesn’t line up with the bodies edge. I’m also not sure about the grass. But I’ve broken my fast of painting. I have been blocked for ages. Basically because I’ve been scared about how well I would do after having developed a shake on my left side. I think concentrating helps reguce the tremor. I will get this finished. X

Mr X

Posted on November 21, 2021November 22, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged 1980's, Art, College work, Fine Art, Mr X, Oil on board, Oil painting, PortraitLeave a comment

Oil painting on board of a friend I painted while I was at college. The Mr X refers to his name when he was in a band. I glued the poster to the painting and added an image of one of his pictures in the background behind him. I think I did the painting from life but I don’t really remember, it was painted about 40 years ago x

Twenty minute sketch

Posted on October 20, 2021October 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #skyportraitartistoftheyear, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Portrait, Sketch, Twenty minutesLeave a comment

Tried drawing Karen Gibson, the conductor, in felt pens after watching her having their portrait painted in #skyportraitartistoftheyear tonight. The hair is wrong, her left eye is too far back, but I don’t think it’s too bad. I drew with felt pens because one of the contestants had done. This took me about twenty minutes. I should have possibly taken longer.

Relaxed Cat

Posted on October 13, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Black and white cat, Cat, Drawing, Pet, Portrait, Sketching, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Relaxed Cat, digital drawing on ArtRage. Hard to do he kept moving x.

I feel like it could have been drawn in ink or watercolour, and I tried to keep it monochrome but a touch of warmth crept in. I was worried I’d made him look like a sheep dog!

Anyway this outside cat is now so settled he eats food out of my hubby’s hand! He sits between us on the arms of our armchairs perched on a cushion.

Angled

Posted on October 9, 2021October 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Digital app, Digital drawing, Drawing, Face, Portrait, semi-abstract, Sketching2 Comments

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was angled. I took a digital drawing of a profile and added detail the decided to add angled patches as if light was blocked out in a checkerboard pattern. It’s slightly abstract, I hope it works! It’s a digital drawing I drew on my tablet.

Old digital drawing

Posted on October 2, 2021October 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Fun, House, Life, Portrait, Sketchfu, Sketching, TV medical drama4 Comments

A few years ago I drew this portrait of Hugh Laurie, (who played House in the medical drama of that name). This was a digital drawing done with a stylus on a tablet but with very simple tools on a site called Sketchfu. It consequently closed and people lost their drawings. Luckily I downloaded some of mine.

This particular drawing always gives me pleasure. It took me a while to master the tools and when I try and draw like this now it doesn’t flow as easily. It’s true what they say – practice makes perfect!

Sundays drawing

Posted on August 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Hubby, Night-time, Portrait, Sketching, SleepingLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was sleeping. I drew my hubby asleep late at night. He had fallen asleep in front of the TV.

Black fine line ink pen on cartridge paper.

Cat paintings

Posted on July 17, 2021 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Animal portrait, Art, Black cat, Cat, cat paintings, Commission, Life, Painting, Portrait, Work in progress2 Comments

A couple of cat paintings I did for a friend in 2018. The first was a work in progress. I don’t have a photo of the completed painting. I love painting cats, and any other animals. I’ve got a dog painting in progress then I’ve got to paint some purple crabs, that might be interesting! By the way the pink is a chair cover, not part of the paintings.

Self portrait as a green woman

Posted on June 17, 2021June 18, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Exhibition, Female art, Fine Art, Green woman, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Painting, Portrait, self portrait, the Rigger Venue, vision exhibition8 Comments

One of my paintings from a couple of years ago. I’ve decided to put it in the Vision Exhibition this Saturday and Sunday at the Rigger Venue in Newcastle-under-Lyme. I have been working on it to give it a more three dimensional feel. That’s why I’m posting this at 2.21am…I just finished it. It’s acrylic on canvas and about 12 inches square. Now I need mirror plates and screws. That will be a task for tomorrow.

This is up now at the Rigger. Hope things go well. X

drawing of a profile

Posted on June 6, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Colour, Design, Fun, Illustration, illustration MA, pastel, Portrait, portrait sessions, Profile, Sketching, studentLeave a comment

drawing with an ink roller

This was one of the portraits I did in a student led portrait group at college during the last few months.

The face was mostly drawn with one of those ink rollers you can use to blank out your address on letters so that you can throw them away without anyone seeing your details and stealing your data. Its quite hard to use because you have to sort of turn and twist your hand and press firmly to sketch curves. AfterId done that I added colour using pastels and the thick black lines were done with black calligraphy pen (most of these have run out so I need some more).

I quite like the strong feel to this. I am trying to find my illustrational voice. I have been told to look for illustrators that my work resembles, but I think mine is different? Is this a good or bad thing? I’m definitley developing my analogue skills. Digital work is more difficult for me.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Portrait