Drawing faces

Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Cartridge paper, Cross hatching, Drawing, Face, Life, Pen and ink, Renaissance, Sketch2 Comments

Last night I was watching a programme about the European renaissance. You know, one of those ones where you get a glimpse of paintings for a few seconds, before they are on to the next face or body. Impossible to draw a face from there.

One revelation was that the Greek and Roman statues would have had painted patterns and faces coloured when they were first carved. As the centuries between then and the renaissance passed, the colours would have faded or washed away. The response of sculptors like Michaelangelo was to carve their figures out of bright white carrera marble. Because what they were seeing coming out of the ground was sculptures that had lost their paint.

That is why I drew patterns and shade on this drawing, it’s an imagined figure. If I had some good colouring pencils I might colour it in… I will look.

Bread making, USK S-O-T challenge.

Posted on April 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Baking, Black and white, Bread, Cooking, Drawing, Food, Ink pen, Kitchen, Oats, Rye flour, Sketch, Sketching, Staffordshire, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Making not made! I found some rye flour and half a pack of yeast in the cupboard. Hubby and I both worked on it. Really tough to knead. We added porridge oats because it was too squidgy and I’d run out of flour. It’s taking time to rise but hopefully it will be OK… X

Update, cooked OK its a bit doughy in the middle. Not bad. Had some hot with butter.

I did the drawing as today’s challenge was something you’ve made for the urban sketchers new challenge. It’s black ink pen in my A5 cartridge paper sketchbook.

Cat…

Posted on April 27, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Awake, Cat, Life, Mice, Movement, Poem, Poetry, Sketch, Sketching, SleepingLeave a comment

Cat

Why can’t you look at me?

why won’t you stay still,

always moving,

except when you sleep….

Even then you chase mice.

feet flailing,

galloping across dreaming gardens,

or hazy, cobwebbed fields.

Cat, statuesque,

gorgeous, flexible, strong,

you won’t keep still

and be drawn.

Portrait of hubby

Posted on April 27, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged A5 sketch, Art, Charcoal drawing, Grayson Perry Art Show, Hubby, Portrait, Reading, Sketch, Watching TVLeave a comment

He was watching a TV programme about portraits. Grayson Perry’s Art Show. So I decided to draw my hubby. He also reads a book at the same time. Talk about multi tasking.

I woukd like to do a portrait of him but he doesn’t keep still. Might have to find a photo.

Plans..

Start painting again.

Tidy up the house.

Try and do some relaxation.

Try and sleep better.

Take care of us both.

Squoodling

Posted on April 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Desigm, Doodle, Fun, Inks, Pattern, Scribble, Sketch6 Comments

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To coin a word, squoodling, half way between doodling and scribbling….

Well why not, I love pattern. I’m thinking of turning it into a planet, I want to do more to it. I might draw round a pan lid to get the shape.

Fairy drawing

Posted on April 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Fairy, Fun, Life, Sketch, Sketching, Wire fairyLeave a comment

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I drew this last night. I interpreted my wire fairy as a real one (with embellishments). I wanted to get the picture to look like one of those adult colouring books. I drew the outlines first with a thin black pen, then I shaded it in with spectrum noir coloured metallic pencil crayons. I finally outlined the fairy with a slightly thicker and darker black ink pen. Drawn in a Windsor and Newton heavy weight case bound sketchbook. A5 size.

New USK Stoke challenge day three.

Posted on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white cat, Black and white sketch, Cat, Challenge, Day three, Drawing, Sketch, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Try drawing a speedy cat, and include the background. Our challenge today was to draw something we love. In my case its one of our cats. She likes balancing with her front paws on the airer I use for washing, and her back paws on the cat tree. The result is a bit wibbly-wobbly.

I haven’t done an exact portrait, but that’s because she keeps moving, unless she’s curled up in a tight ball. Her brother is a bit quiet at the moment. He’s been enjoying sleeping on the windowledge upstairs in the sun.

Finished fairy in the garden..

Posted on April 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Fairy, Fun, Garden, Laurel bush, Photo, Plant, Sculpture, Sketch, Wire fairy2 Comments

I finished the wire fairy about three am, fighting to get the wings attached and in the right place. I gave her a long ponytail that looks like it’s blowing in a gale.

This afternoon she was attached to our laurel bush outside. She is hung on a nail, not very graceful but it works. I tried drawing her. All those curls of wire are difficult to draw. I didn’t want to be too precise. I think the drawing is quite spooky.

New USK Stoke challenge, day 2.

Posted on April 20, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Hubby, Ink, Kitchen, Life, Pencil, Portrait, Sketch, View, Window1 Comment

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Portrait, today’s #uskstoke challenge. Hubby in the kitchen, looking out the window. That’s some oo gauge track on the cupboard, soon after he went out to work on his train set. That’s why it’s a quick drawing. Looking forward to tomorrow’s challenge….

New challenge with Stoke USK

Posted on April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Cat, Drawing, Local to me, Neighbours, New challenge, Sketch, Sketching, Urban SketchersLeave a comment

_20200419_190902 We all agreed after completing the thirty day challenge that London Urban Sketchers had put together that we would like to continue. We have a new list of about 37 challenges, which may well see us out of the lockdown.

Today’s challenge was ‘local to you’.

I was going to draw all the lovely terraces up the hill behind us. But I failed to realise how much next doors bushes have grown. So this is the cat and the 70’s houses behind us. Then someone walked into the bedroom opposite. It was like a scene from the film ‘rear window’ so I retreated!

I have the list somewhere. I’m setting the daily challenges. A few people have joined in so far.

Mallaband-Brown

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