Faces

Posted on October 30, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, Artrage, Blue/green, Design, Digital art, Digital sketch, Faces, Sketcher free, Sketches, Technology, Three quarter portraitsLeave a comment

Each of these drawings were done slightly differently. The first and third in ArtRage app and the middle one used a photo which was drawn on with Sketcher free app.

Faces are interesting to draw, the first two are from life, the third is imagined. I’ve tried using free flowing pens and different textures backgrounds. Colours are tending towards the blue/green end of the spectrum.

I also thought about which side light falls on a face. I usually draw with light coming from the top right if I’m imagining an image, or from whichever direction it comes from if it’s from life.

More to follow as I create them.

Wips

Posted on October 22, 2019October 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Blocking out, Design, Drawing, Progress, Sketches, Work in progressLeave a comment

Works in progress. All imagined except for the black and white cat which is my boy cat. What can I do to improve them?

Sketches they are based on.

Having a sketchbook

Posted on October 14, 2019October 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Drawing, Ink pen, Landscape, Life, Sketchbooks, Sketches, Trees, Urban sketch2 Comments

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I’ve been taking my sketchbook with me recently because of doing the one inch drawing challenge. That’s meant that I have drawn pictures as well as photographing them.

Yesterday I was looking at autumn trees in front of black and white buildings (the architecture looks like its from the 1920’s or 30’s.) Sturdy, tall trees were starting to colour up as autumn starts to bite. The branches were swaying and soughing in the wind. This is a season I can relate too. It’s sometimes quiet and misty, other times dramatic. That’s what I enjoyed about drawing it. Trying to bring a bit of that drama into it. You can’t draw every individual leaf in a ten or fifteen minute sketch, but you can try and add movement.

For information I used an a6 sketchpad and a unipin fine line pen size 0.8.

But I can sketch….

Posted on October 5, 2019October 5, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Life, Lion painting, One day challenge, Pen and ink, Sketches, Snowman Mug, Urban Sketchers3 Comments

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It’s day 5 of the one inch drawing challenge for October. I decided to draw what’s in front of me. A dining chair with a small box easle sitting on it a canvas with a half painted lion and my snowman mug (just big enough for a decent dollop of decaff coffee). Lots of old paint brushes in the tray of the easle. Books on the floor behind…. I don’t care where I draw as long as I can.

A few sketches of Llandudno

Posted on August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawings, Life, Llandudno, Mostyn gallery, Sketches, WalesLeave a comment

Orme head.

Other side of the bay.

Grand Hotel from Llandudno pier.

View from top of the Great Orme.

Back of the hotel.

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Sculptures Mostyn gallery.

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View through a doorway, Mostyn gallery.

That was a busy day!

Bones

Posted on February 23, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blog, Drawing, Life, Poem, Skeleton, Sketches, Skull, Tired1 Comment

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Funny what you can find in a pub. This skeleton is plastic and sits in the corner of a local pub, next to the fire. I called the drawing the regular, he has been there for a few years. There is also a pretend skeleton of a dog behind him. Also you can see the top of a guitar next to him. That’s because I drew this on music night. The sketch pad is about 4 inches square and I have a drawing from 1995 in it of a place called Winnats pass in Derbyshire. _20190222_235651

I’m tired because I’ve been at the panto all evening so this is a very short blog post and also a short poem

Skeleton

Skull

Pirate

Gull,

Treasure

Gold

Dubloon

Silver

Moon

Ship

Sea

Ocean

Free.

Drawing outside

Posted on February 7, 2019February 7, 2019 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cartridge paper, Coloured pencil, Drawings, Dylan Thomas, Laugharne, Pendine Sands, Sketches, South West Wales, Tenby, Wales2 Comments

Here are coloured pencil drawings I did a few years ago. They are views of church rock at Tenby, Tenby beaches, Tenby Harbour, Laugharne Castle and the boathouse at Laugharne where Dylan Thomas lived.

Tenby and Laugharne are both in the county of Pembrokeshire in South Western Wales. It is a beautiful place. Its known as little England in Wales. It is also the location of Pendine sands. A long flat beach in the Laugharne estuary where several land speed records have been achieved..

Cat sketches

Posted on November 10, 2018November 10, 2018 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Cat, Cat sketches, Digital art, Doodles, SketchesLeave a comment

I’m playing with digital sketches to decide whether to paint or draw a card design. After the first set done in a sketching app, I did the last one as an artrage oil sketch – over drawing a picture of a firework exploding that I did last week. I’m happier with that than the others.

I’m only doing these because I’ve got a cold. I was due to go out and go to an art group but I woke up feeling snotty this morning. But you can’t keep me away from drawing or painting for long. I’ve got a large peice of foam board in the car to paint on for something else this week….. But that’s another story.

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I think this looks more refined and handsome.

Cat yoga?

Posted on October 9, 2018 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Agile, Biro, Cat, Drawing, Mat, Sketches, YogaLeave a comment

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Cats must have done Yoga in one of their 9 lives! How else could they bend and twist like they do?

Well actually its because they have extremely flexible spines and can move fluidly and easily.

Imagine a cat was a slice of toast, it would always land butter side up. There was a joke once about tying a slice of buttered toast to the back of a cat. Because toast is meant to always land buttered side down the result would be a perpetually rotating cat!

Anyway I would never do that to any animal, let alone a kitty.

But joking apart cats can bend their spines so that if they are dropped from an upside down position they can generally turn right way up before they hit the ground. (don’t do this at home). Cats also cushion the fall by landing on their toes. Their legs and rest if their skeletons act like shock absorbers.

So Cats are pretty awesome, flexible, and good to draw!

Holywell

Posted on October 2, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chapel, Holywell, North Wales, Photography, Sketches, St WinefridLeave a comment

This time last year we visited Holywell in North Wales. It’s a little town set up a hill a bit in land from the coast The actual Chapel of St Winefrid is on a steep hill and is accessed through a visitors centre that gives you the details of the story of the Saint.

There is a pool of water below the church building which is set into the hillside. Inside the building is the holy well where a spring of clear water rises up and wells out of the ground. The architectural details are lovely and there is a real feeling of peace to the place despite it being next to quite a busy road. I think we will visit again.

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