Aunty socials piano keys?

Posted on September 10, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Fun, Life, Music, Musical notes, Piano keys, Random, Sketching, Spiral2 Comments

Auntysocial.wordpress.com is asking for a design for her old piano keys, 88 of them, because she’s dismantled her old upright piano. The keys are black and white (over 100 year old ivory). There are photos on her page of what other people have done. I’ve tried to draw something after failing abysmally on a drawing app that let’s you draw circles but not spirals. Anyway this is wonky but I thought some wall art, a square shaped white panel, and with a spiral or two of keys on it, plus some musical notes painted on it. A bit random…. I don’t know.

Missing Barndances

Posted on September 8, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2019, Art, Barn dance, Missing fun, Mystery Play, Panto, Penkhull, Raising funds, Sad, SketchingLeave a comment

Next month we would probably have been holding a Barn dance in aid of the Penkhull Mystery play (that didn’t happen in July). We would also have started rehearsals for the Penkhull panto, both events, ( the mystery play and the panto) had big audiences. Now our government has decided to cut the number of people who can live in England down to six both inside and out. No more crowds. Sad….

Today’s challenge ‘Soft’

Posted on September 6, 2020 Posted in Cat, SketchingTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Black and white sketch, Cat, Drawing, From life, Fun, iink pen, Pencil sketch, Sketchers, Sketching2 Comments

The second challenge set by our new sketching group ‘band of sketchers’ was ‘Soft’, not easy, until I saw my cat sitting in front of a big soft bag. Plus a mat she was sitting on. Its a pencil sketch with some black ink fine line pen work. It’s hard drawing moving cats. They have a tenancy to shift position just when you want to draw their eyes, or the position of their paws. I could have taken a photo but I wanted to draw direct from life.

Tree

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Drawing, Environment, Life, Nature, Poem, Poetry, Sea, Sketch, Sketching, Tree, Woman artist2 Comments

Tree, look after me,

Let me climb up and see

Where the world ends

Where the sea sweeps

High views

Cliff edges,

Sand bars

Tree you let me see far

Over hill and vale

Into the distant waves

Crashing across the earth’s face

Like tears and mountains,

Flying spray

Blowing limbs from the tree

In a gale.

Hubby digging

Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Etruria Artists, Friends, Garden, Life, Meeting people, Nervous, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Portuguese cafe, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

Fork in hand, pulling up weeds, tweed overcoat on, wearing a deerstalker hat, and enjoying a showery morning at Shelton allotments. No sketching challenge today, but we later met with some friends at a social distance so I got my sketch pad out again while enjoying a pleasant coffee in a Portuguese cafe. My nerves were a bit jangly after two seperate meetings with people so I wore a mask on both occasions and gloves when I was weeding. It’s hard to think the world might be going back to normal even though covid 19 is still here.

Band of sketchers first drawing

Posted on September 1, 2020 Posted in SketchingTagged Back garden, Back yard, Band of sketchers, Distance, Drawing, Fun, Life, Plants, Sketching, Stoke-on-Trent2 Comments

A ggrou of us have decided to keep running sketching challenges but not in our local urban sketching group. This is because not everyone sticks to the urban sketchers rules and we were also clogging up the gallery with some strange and interesting images, but not necessarily outside.

Today’s challenge was distance. I saw some people have drawn landscapes with far away landmarks, but I interpreted it differently….. I in my case I drew my friends back yard. With plants growing up the wall and in pots at the rear of her house. First of a new set of ideas….

Doing mythological

Posted on August 31, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, Art, Blogging, Design, Digital drawing, Learning, Playing, Sketching, UnicornLeave a comment

and why not…? If you’ve got a dragon, why not go all unicorn… I tend to draw dragon heads a bit like horses heads. Unlike the dragon in ‘how to train your dragon’ where toothless the dragon reminds me of a black cat.. I digress. The app I used to create this is called something like free sketch? The trouble is I use so many of them that I don’t always remember which one I’ve used!

On this sketch I tried using a fountain pen, but for some reason it won’t make marks? This is why I say experimenting is so important. Learning how to use a tool in an app so that you can understand what it does.

I’m just getting the hang of it…

Last challenge with USK Stoke-on-Trent

Posted on August 30, 2020August 30, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Blogging, Challenge, Drawing, Kitchen, Life, Picture, Sketching, Stoke-on-Trent Urban sketchers, TiredLeave a comment

It had to happen, after sketching since March this year we have decided to end posting sketches to the Stoke Urban Sketchers page on Facebook .

The thing is that not everyone that joined in is from Stoke or its surroundings. And not everyone wants to draw the challenges, so our pictures may have cluttered up the page a bit. So now we are opening a new page.. It should be up and running in September. If you like sketching and feel like joining pop over to Facebook. I will get the details and post them here.

In the meantime today’s prompt was ‘kitchen’ I decided to sketch part of the kitchen from the living room. I ache too much from my long walk earlier to stand up and draw the full thing!

Drew the box…

Posted on August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, 6b pencil, A6 drawing pad, Art, Blogging, Challenge, Drawing, Pencil sketch, Sketch, Sketching, Urban Sketchers Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

Today’s #uskstoke challenge was to draw something to do with restrictions. The box is being posted up to Lancashire with a bike frame as we can’t deliver it directly to hubbies brother. So I think this counts? Pencil sketch, 6b, on an A6 cartridge pad. Tried to do the writing on the box as neatly as I could. X

Sketching tutors

Posted on August 22, 2020August 22, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Blogging, Cross hatching, Drawing, Ink sketches, Life, People, Portraits, Quick sketches, Sketching, Webinar2 Comments

When you are in a webinar and you are listening to people talking, why not sketch them? I don’t get much chance of doing portraits of people at the moment and so I take them when I can. Our webinars require students to have their mic and camera switched off, and only switching the mic on if you want to say something. When you are in a group of up to forty students I guess it makes it easier to hear what’s being said and it’s less distracting. I make notes, but I can’t help wanting to draw…

So if you are ever in a zoom meeting with me… Beware I might do a quick sketch of you too!

Mallaband-Brown

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