Urban sketching rules

Posted on August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged A bit about urban sketching, Art, Blogging, Glass, Rambling, shadow, Sketching, Sketching rules, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent4 Comments

Since urban sketchers challenge today was shadow, I could have drawn something like this. But we are not allowed to work from photos. Also the image needs to be in context, so not just the glass and table, but the surroundings. It makes for more difficult art, you have to think about what you are including. There are Facebook pages you can join and a monthly magazine that shows urban sketching from around the world.

This years annual urban sketchers meet up was cancelled because of the virus. It would have been in Leeds. Hopefully it will happen next year.

Grrrr

Posted on August 12, 2020August 12, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Block editor?, Blogging, Drawing, Frustrating, Irritating, Learning, Sketcher app, Sketching, Trying to understand, WordPressLeave a comment

Good, I seem to be back to the old fashioned WordPress. I just tried posting on my tablet and everything looked completely different! I think I was in ‘blocks’! Now I have a post you can only see half of, basically this little drawing of a little goose isn’t even showing up unless you press a button to show more. Why? Grrr! I’ve been using WordPress for a couple of years now and I thought I’d got it sussed.

Ah well, sorry to moan.

Illustration books

Posted on August 9, 2020August 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Books, College, Creative, Design, Drawing, Illustration, Learning, Semiotics?, SketchingLeave a comment

I ordered three books through a well known delivery system and they have all arrived safely. Now I have to read them. They are about designers, creatives and illustrators. There is a look into unpublished sketchbooks, an introduction to semiotics and another one about illustration. (OK so I forgot what the third one I ordered was and the text is to small to read off this photo). I shall be reading them tomorrow.

USK prompt, fabric

Posted on August 9, 2020August 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Blogging, Drawing, Fabric, Life, Permanent markers, Prompt, Sketching, Usk challenge, Usk Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

Today’s challenge was to draw some fabric. So I did our airer with my summer dress on it, together with the carpet and the sofa with coverings. It’s not very exciting but it is colourful. The greys were done with a permanent marker that has almost run out so I darkened it with some watered down black water colour paint. The yellow thing hanging on the corner is on of my fabric masks. I’m looking forward to seeing what the other urban sketchers have done today.

Sketching

Posted on August 5, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Cross hatching, Drawing, Fun, Life, Pencil, Poem, Poetry, Shading, SketchingLeave a comment

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Draw something fast

Draw something quick

Sharpen a pencil

A conte stick.

Shading and hatching

Playing with angles,

Draw lines and curves

Twisting and turning

You know drawing makes me happy.

Watering can

Posted on August 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, #uskstoke challenge, Art, ArtRage app, Design, Drawing, Illustration, metallic effect, Sketching, watering canLeave a comment

Todays Urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent challenge was ‘metallic.

I decided to draw our zinc watering can that hubby has kindly left in the middle of the living room floor after watering the plants infant of our house.

I decided to draw in my Artrage app as I don’t use it often enough. Its the pro version so you have lots of tools, including pastel, pen, brush, a roller, and lots more. It took a while to get used to it. Because it has metallic colours it meant I could get some interesting effects on the can, and there are also settings so i gave the background surface a canvas look.

And back to cats, patterns and photo editing

Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Celtic cat, Design, Drawing, Filters, Instagram, Photodirector, Pictures, Sketching, StylesLeave a comment

Sometimes when you ‘tidy things up’ with photo editors, you lose some of the character of your art work. Yes it may look more interesting in one way but you can lose colours or small details that you might have struggled to get into the image in the first place. I guess it’s a matter of choice. The first photo here has been enhanced slightly with filters in Instagram. That’s because the drawing I did originally is about twenty years old and hangs on our stairs. The inks I used to draw it have faded so i had to try and restore it slightly back to how it was. The second is another one that I’ve adjusted in Photodirector.

It’s down to personal opinion if you like them or not?

Cat in a box

Posted on August 2, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white, Black and white cat, Blogging, Cat, Drawing, Life, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent challenge today was to draw an animal. It was easy to choose my cat. He loves sitting in his box in the kitchen. He’s got a few boxes around the house he sleeps in. He likes putting his paws out and was after my pen as I started to draw him. He didn’t stay very still, but I’ve got a good idea of what he looks like.

Portfolio

Posted on July 30, 2020July 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, course, Design, Drawing, Illustration, Learning, Life, Not right size?, Portfolio, Sketching, WorkLeave a comment

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I’ve been working on my portfolio for college today. I’ve got to upload it soon to show what I’ve been doing. I was halfway through when I found out I should be uploading images at 72dots per inch (dpi?) and I’ve set it at 300. I think I will have to delete all the images and save them all to the lower size limit…. So annoying because it was looking good. But at least I’ve found out in time. I need to go back and read the course instructions.

I think I’ve taken on too much sometimes. Not because I can’t do it but because I’ve got so many other things going on. I like writing here because it acts like a diary and also let’s me get ideas down that aren’t part of the course. Plus with limited contact with people it’s giving me some freedom.

Prompt ‘hanging’

Posted on July 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Blogging, Colour, Design, Drawing, Picture, Sketching, Usk challenge, Usk Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

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Back yard colours. The Usk Stoke-on-Trent challenge today was ‘hanging’ so I got my new permanent markers out. I tried not to do any black outlines to make the colours jump more!

The picture includes our hanging baskets and a dream catcher that hangs in our back living room window. There is a little glass angel hanging in the dream catcher. When I asked my hubby what he thought he said it was a bit amateurish!

The only problem with permanent markers is that they dry up quickly. You can be half way through shading something and they run out. More in a couple of days.

Mallaband-Brown

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