Cat helping me draw!

Posted on April 30, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Drawing, Life, Paper, Pen, Sketchbook, Sketching, Tuxedo cat, Watching8 Comments

Oh yes! She tried to get my pen and rubbed her head along my sketchpad. I took a blurry photo and then drew this. Sometimes the paw comes up and she tries to grab my pen. Eyes staring at the tip of it. What fun… Maybe she was an artist in a past life!

Last day of April, almost the end of this semester, but I think drawing something every day has really improved my skills. Looking back at last year’s work before I started college I can see how my mark making has changed. Practice is definitely good for Art.

Tonights portrait session

Posted on April 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Calligraphy pen, Five portraits, Fun, Life, Sketchbook, Sketching, students2 Comments

Five portraits, one five minutes and the other four are ten minute ones. Black calligraphy pen on cartridge paper. The lighting isn’t good so the paper looks a bit grey. People provided objects to add to the portraits. I really enjoy these sessions.

Ice and water

Posted on January 12, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, ice and snow, Landscape, metallic watercolours, Sketchbook, View, Walking, Watercolour, Westport lakeLeave a comment

I wanted to paint a view of Westport lake with snow and ice so when the prompt water came up for #bandofsketchers I decided to go for it.

Metallic and normal watercolours in my little A5 sketchpad.

Band of sketchers prompt. Industrial

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Drawing, Front door, Metallic colours, Picture, Portmeirion pottery, Sketchbook, ViewLeave a comment

View out of my front door of Portmeirion pottery. Tried to emphasise the trees. Actually sat in the car as I was letting all the warm air out of the house. I used a gold and a silver pen and a slightly metallic blue and green to make it more interesting. If you’ve got to live opposite a factory I prefer something like this with some trees rather than completely blank walls and nasty smells!

Watercolour background morphed

Posted on July 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Altered hues, Analogue, Art, Brushwork, Digital, Learning, Playing, Scratched through, Sketchbook, Watercolour, WetLeave a comment

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I have a wide paintbrush you can use to spread watercolour across a page. On the right hand side is part of the original picture and the left hand side has had the hue digitally changed. The grass style marks were created by scratchingvthruogh the wet paint with the edge of a bit of plastic. I might try and use the original background in my sketchbook for a new drawing, and I might upload this image to draw something else. I like the feel of this. I might add a lone pine tree or something like that. X

Fifteen year old sketchbook

Posted on July 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Drawing, Fifteen years ago, Ink, Memories, Past, Pencil, Portraits, Sketchbook, Sketching, Time4 Comments

I found an old sketchbook I used to take to a drawing group about 15years ago. I used to concentrate on portraits.

This was at a local pub and over a few years the group grew. It couldn’t last sadly as the pub closed down.

It was good to find these today. I need more sketchbooks though!

Triangle

Posted on July 9, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Painting, Picture, Sketch, Sketchbook, Stoke-on-Trent Urban sketchers, Triangle, Urban SketchersLeave a comment

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Not my favourite challenge, but I looked out of the window and saw various triangles. I rearranged the clothes on the airer so they made definite triangles, and the coats on the cupboard were hanging down in a triangle. I left the standard lamp out because it didn’t help the composition. The acrylic paint I used is quite opaque and as the group I’m in is called Urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent I felt the sketchy feel was OK. If I had been doing a ‘proper’ painting I would have done a more realistic, painterly I ture. But I was concentrating on the triangles….

Cutlery drawer

Posted on May 7, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, 5b pencil, Art, Black ink, cchallenge, Challenge, Cutlery drawer, Drawing, Fun, Sketchbook, Sketching, Usk Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

USK Stoke challenge today was to do a sketch of your cutlery drawer. The final sketch had black ink lining round the objects which I originally did with just 5b pencil, but it looked too indistinct.

Sketching is getting to be a habit now. I don’t think I can stop when it gets to the end of this particular challenge. To add to that I also like the fact that the ideas are from different people, so they are eclectic choices. It’s much more interesting drawing things like cutlery as well as the view out the window.

What will tomorrow bring?

Urban Sketchers, draw a selfie…

Posted on March 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 30day challenge, Art, Challenge, Drawing, Fun, Life, Pencil sketch, self portrait, Selfie, Sketchbook, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent, What to do while self isolatingLeave a comment

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Selfie’ portrait, including phone and the canvas of a kingfisher it’s propped up on. Old brushes and easle. Background on the phone is a painting I did in about 1982,of my imagined self, so a selfie of a self portrait? Happy to join the challenge. Why is the photo a mirror image to what was on the screen I was drawing?

Oh my double chins! How difficult it is to draw while trying to look over your glasses because I can’t see clearly. I need varifocals, but after spending loads on a pair a few years ago I hated them so much I never wore them again!

Sketching with urban sketchers means including the background and having the image in context. Why not do your own selfie?

A third of the way through November circles.

Posted on November 11, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Diary, Drawing, Fun, Life, November circle's, Sketchbook, Sketching, Urban sketches4 Comments

I’m not posting these very often, it’s not like the October one inch challenge, but I am trying to do a drawing each day. It’s a little visual diary. So things like going out to lunch and treating myself to a Gin and Tonic (very weak) is on there. Plus trying to find a stray cats owner and falling over and hurting myself yesterday (I drew that today). I will carry on and see whatever else happens.

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Tag: Sketchbook