Myself

Posted on April 14, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Books, brush, Canvas, Cat, Drawing, I, Illustration, Pencil, Poppies, Pottery, self portrait, Sketching, Willow pattern, xrayLeave a comment

I was looking for this drawing because there was a prompt on one of the Art groups I’m on that asked people to post #thisisme. I looked and looked for this and could not find it, and yet its on my WordPress media gallery! It was originally drawn for a college project ‘I’. As you can see it includes a self portrait, a canvas and pencil and brush, some poppies, an x-ray, books, an old pottery, a cat and finally the willow pattern on a plate. Each thing means something to me. It was drawn in 2020 so I have changed slightly since then. No bits have dropped off but I’m not as well as I was. Life eh? Gets to us all….

Grumpy!

Posted on January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, Drawing, Grumpy, Life, self portrait, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was grumpy. I had two reasons to be grumpy, a big bill, and still feeling ill. So I pulled this awful face (I look disgusted!) and drew this miserable looking self portrait! I really hope I don’t usually look like this. I’ve already deleted the photo I drew it from.

Abstract face

Posted on January 7, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract face, Apps, Art, Blogging, Digital art, Filters, Memory, self portrait, Sketching, WordPressLeave a comment

Abstract self portrait. I can’t remember how I got to this point. It’s got to be a couple of years since I created this. I’ve got an idea that I used various filters but which ones? My WordPress Media library has some odd images in it and every so often I have to edit them and delete some of them because my memory on WordPress is 99.8% full. I can’t afford to pay more for my blog page so it’s a case of managing what I have.

Saying that, does anyone know what else I can do? I don’t want to delete blog posts, I don’t have the time or the energy to do it. What I am doing is to delete some of the images as they take up more space on my site. What do people think?

Blank

Posted on December 21, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, blank, Drawing, Life, self portrait, Sketching, TiredLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Blank. A blank stare, my face in the mirror this morning. Still feeling like all the energy has been sucked out of me with this horrible cough. I used a tiny hand mirror so the face is distorted, it was like trying to put a jigsaw puzzle together!

Unconscious

Posted on August 1, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, closed eyes, different style, Drawing, Experiment, Face, self portrait, Selfie, Sketching, unconsciousLeave a comment

Warning, I’ve made myself look very strange.

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was Unconscious. I have been unconscious a few times in my life and thankfully remember nothing about it. I decided to take a selfie with my eyes closed and hair dishevelled. The drawing is trying out the new style I’m playing with… Nose is too long because I had the sketchbook horizontal so it’s all elongated

The mirror cracked

Posted on April 1, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Face, faded, Fog, Life, obscured, Photo, Poem, Poetry, self portrait, split, third eye, Time2 Comments

I posted this on Instagram and my friend said she could see my third eye!

I like to be obscured

And obscure

Hide my light

Under a bushel.

Blue and red and grey

Like an old TV set

With a cracked screen

A play for today

Trying hard

Not to implode

But dissappear into

The fog of time

Faded in the light

Looking out

Posted on March 14, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abstract, abstract effect, Art, Design, Learning, Photo, Photodirector, Playing, self portrait, TextureLeave a comment

A self portrait, using a self portrait photograph then using a texture filter by photodirector. Finally I used a flood fill to lighten the surrounding sections. I never know what is going to happen when I start. But something emerges. Something changes. And I end up with a picture that interests me.

Forty

Posted on February 27, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Digital filter, Fine Art, Forty, Life, Painting, Photoshop, self portrait, Time passesLeave a comment

A self portrait I did aged forty but filtered to obscure it. It’s twenty years old and I can’t remember why I did it. I think I was experimenting with photoshop at the time. It’s me wearing a reuse, recycle, repair tee shirt (which I still have somewhere). My hair was in a short bob and I painted the book covers on the bookcase with the titles of all my favourite books. Maybe I will use a different filter and see how that affects the painting. I seem to do a self portrait every ten years, so a while to go till the next one. X

Face

Posted on February 22, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Can you see, Digital art, Eyes, Life, Pattern, seeing things, self portraitLeave a comment

Have I posted this before? A digital image of an abstracted female face. I wish I could remember how I made it. Its probably a self portrait. I can also see an animal with green eyes in the lower half. There I go seeing things on patterns again.

Self portraits

Posted on January 16, 2022January 17, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged 1978, Canvas, Memories, Newspaper, Portraits, Quink ink, school of art, self portrait, TimeLeave a comment

Our college exhibition in 1978, a few of us got in the local paper. One image was painted in quink ink on paper and the other one was larger on a canvas. I don’t remember what happened to them. I may have left them at the school of art. Even now I still remember the fun I had painting them. I wish I could go back in time to those days again. I don’t know if they still sell quink ink. When you added water to the black colour it would split into browns and blues. Great for painting cloudy skies

Mallaband-Brown

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