Artrage and photodirector

Posted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Black and white, Cat, Drawing, Fun, Illustration, Life, Photodirector, Picture, SketchingLeave a comment

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Drawn in artrage oils and edited in photodirector changing the colours and style.

This is what I mean about playing with are, yes this is a scrappy sketch, but it’s my scrappy sketch, amended and changed how I want. I would love to illustrate a book using a style like this. I could imagine creating pictures about a crazy cat in a children’s book.

I was once offered the opportunity to illustrate a book but the publishers woukd only allow the author to use an in house illustrator. I was very disappointed as I think I could have created a different atmosphere by working with her. Oh well….

Brand new challenge

Posted on May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Digital drawing, Fun, Locality, New challenge, Sketching, Tablet drawing, Urban SketchersLeave a comment

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I am still sketching, a new person is posting challenges for Stoke-on-Trent urban sketchers and it is great to be inspired by them. The challenge was locality.

I did a drawing of the view through my window, locality…near a pottery. This is a digital drawing done on my tablet.

The sun has been shining all day and I went out in the garden and pruned back some of the trees that are growing over the summerhouse. The cherry trees are still covered in a large crop which is gradually ripening. No doubt the birds will get them first.

More later.

Last day of this challenge.

Posted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Ariel, Art, Bird feeder, Birds, Drawing, Last challenge, Life, Pencil sketch, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Ariel birds! These were visiting our bird feeder today. I only got a glimpse so I added the flying one from a photo. Can’t tell you what these are they are all I could draw, but the one on the feeder was a bluetit. But I couldn’t get the details quick enough….. This is the last of this challenge. This was day 38. The last of the current challenge. We may be moving on to a list of prompts every other day to keep going….

I have to say this has made me look at things differently and made me realise I can draw a lot of things, although my straight lines are a bit wobbly!

Day 37. #uskstoke

Posted on May 25, 2020May 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #grayson perry's art club, #uskstoke, Art, Black and white, Design, Drawing, Garden, Home, Sketching, Staffordshire, Usk challenge Stoke-on-Trent2 Comments

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Today’s theme was doorway, this is inside the summerhouse looking out into the very green and bushy garden. Unipen black ink pen, size 0.2 because I found it and the other ones are running out. The garden smells lovely, but lots of things in pots are drying out, so they are wilting a bit. We need to get the hose out. Another beautiful sunny day. A few clouds.

Tomorrow is the last day of this challenge. I’m hoping people will come up with new ideas. It would be good to have a few days off. As I’ve been posting the challenges it would be good tobe led by someone else’s perspective.

See you later.

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.

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