Today’s #uskstoke, day 36.

Posted on May 24, 2020May 24, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Drawing, Hands, Life, Pencil sketch, Reflected or mirrored, Sketching, Spoon, Usk challengeLeave a comment

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Day 36. Today’s challenge was to draw a reflection or mirrored image. This is a 6b pencil drawing, selfie in a spoon. It’s been a while since I drew hands, I think I may have made the thumb too big. Interesting how my head appears upside down, because the inner surface of the spoon is concave. Turn it round and on the back the image is the right way up because its convex.

The image on the back of your eye is upside down. The only reason why you see things the right way up is because your brain compensates for it!

Day 33, what does quarantine mean to you?

Posted on May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Day 33, Drawing, Life, Quarantine, self portrait, Sketching, Usk challengeLeave a comment

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After several weeks, I’m a bit fed up, and my hair is the longest it’s ever been… But we are coping, I was going to draw my mostly empty fridge. I don’t have much veg….

I enjoy drawing with charcoal pencil. What you lose in definition you gain in character I think. I wasn’t trying for accuracy, but I wanted to depict my mood.

Five more days to go, then I may start doing something else.

Getting back to normal?

Posted on May 20, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Airplane, Art, Back yard, Con trail, Drawing, Life, Neighbour, Sketching, Spectrum noir pencils, Urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent challengeLeave a comment

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Day 32, urban sketchers challenge.

Medium, spectrum noir colouring pencils with a metallic sheen.

This morning when I got up I saw another con trail in the sky, this time horizontal north/south. Then as I started to draw I saw a plane and another con trail cut across the sky, west to east. I could see the tiny plane. I knew I would not be able to do it justice so I left it out.

The next door neighbours back yard beyond the trellis fence is a bit boring. I’m waiting for hanging baskets to hang off the fence and brighten things up.

Back to normal? I don’t think so…..

Usk challenge, day 31

Posted on May 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Drawing, First thing in the morning, Illustration, Life, Morning, Night, Sketching, Sleep, Usk Stoke-on-Trent challengeLeave a comment

The challenge today was ‘first thing in the morning’.

Difficult for me as I have been going to bed very late and getting up late. So at 2am this morning I decided to draw this. It’s a view of my TV. There is no channel 7 here, but I just wanted a generic image on the screen. I coloured it in this far and decided to go to bed. I was going to continue with it, but when I got up I decided I liked it as it is. Its nice I think. Anyway I’m having a cup of coffee and thinking what to draw next.

Mirror me

Posted on May 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital editing, Drawing, Future, Mirror, Photodirector, Place, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Thought, TimeLeave a comment

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Reflected, I imagine myself.

Caught between then and now,

near and far.

Lost, not found.

Dimension four,

Time to turn round,

clear my mind,

start again.

Decide to be.

Free.

Day 29…

Posted on May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Back yard, Drawing, Foliage, Garden, Hanging baskets, House portrait, Life, Plants, pots, Sketching, Spring Garden, YardLeave a comment

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Day 29, #uskstoke challenge, 17.5.2020.

The prompt was to do a house portrait, so I drew the back yard with lots of pots and hanging baskets. I ran out of energy so it looks neater than it is, there is less foliage than there should be. I used a charcoal pencil to do this, it has a plastic cover around it so you can sharpen it.

I had to start a new sketchbook. And these challenges keep going till day 38! So there are a few more to tackle.

‘Underneath’ day 28 usk challenge.

Posted on May 16, 2020May 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Day 28 usk challenge, Drawing, Glitter ball, Life, Mobiles, Sketching, Staffordshire, Usk challenge, Usk Stoke-on-Trent2 Comments

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This is underneath the arch in our living room. There are various things hanging off it, like a disco glitter ball, which I sometimes shine a torch at when music is playing. Then there’s a star that lights up and changes colour, a model of a usaf plane and an old cardboard mobile of the solar system, which is so old it still includes Pluto! Also luminous stars stuck on the underside of the arch.

USK Stoke-on-Trent challenge had pushed me with lots of prompts. I thought of looking underneath the table, or at the shed roof, or even ‘Underneath the canopy of stars’, but this was easier. I haven’t added a great deal of detail as it is a sketch.

Front door / cell door?

Posted on May 15, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Door, Drawing, Front door., Lockdown, Pencil sketch, Sketching, Urban sketchers challenge, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Door

Day 27

Usk Stoke-on-Trent challenge.

Friday 15th May 2020.

The choice of this door was basically because its our barrier to the world. It keeps out people, and keeps us in.

Only when the scientists say its safe to do so will I venture out without a mask.

So my Urban sketches stay indoors or inside the garden. This challenge has given me something to do each day. Keeping me calm, and mostly not winding me up!

Usk challenge, day 25, ‘dizzy’…

Posted on May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Bathroom, Dizzy, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Life, Sketching, Spinning, Usk challenge Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

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Dizzy? How do you draw that? I spun round in the bathroom and then decided to do a panoramic drawing. Only one object missing (lol).

I was trying to think about how to depict dizzy, I almost tried to add a bit of blurring, like motion blur. But that wouldn’t be true to life. I could also have drawn our dizzying array of books. But I think people already know about that. So to the tune of ‘you spin me, baby, right round’, I will pinwheel into the distance, byeeee!

Turned the whirlpool into a seashell.

Posted on May 12, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital manipulation, Drawing, Fun, Morphing drawings, Pattern, Photo director app, Seashell, Sketching, WhirlpoolLeave a comment

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I tried to change the whirlpool into a seashell… Then I added gold glitter kiss paint. It looks like sand. I put it through the photo director app , there is a way of creating bits flying off the picture. In the animation it looks like the seashell is under water, the bits coming off look like they are floating. Totally random result. I wish I could share it here, but it’s on my Instagram account. X

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