Fear

Posted on October 26, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fear, Invasion, Life, Loss, Sketching, WorriesLeave a comment

I tried to draw an abstract image of fear. Everything is chaotic, your not in control, tight chest and gut. Swirling colours…

I’m not afraid of halloween or anything silly like that, but I’m scared to go out into our garden without my hubby. We have been through a series of thefts from our garden and now I can’t stop looking out of the window to check if anyone had come back. Hubby just rushed out because he saw someone on a bike like his, and I’m afraid to go into the garden incase someone is lurking, so many bad thoughts of what might happen!

Hence the drawing, a bit of self art therapy.

Settle to Carlisle line

Posted on October 22, 2023October 22, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 1994, Art, Cycling, Drawing, holidays, Life, ribblehead viaduct, Sketching, YorkshireLeave a comment

Another image drawn on holiday, this one is from 1994 whan we were on holiday near Settle. We cycled around the area and I did this sketch in biro when we stopped to have lunch and look at the view I think. But this was 29 years ago so I may have misremembered. By looking at the notes it looks like I revisited in the October of the same year.

90s drawing

Posted on October 22, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bird, Drawing, Life, Nature, Pencil sketch, sequoia bald eagle, Sketch book, Sketching6 Comments

90s drawing of a sequoia bald eagle. I think we were on holiday in the lake district and called in at a bird sanctuary. It’s in a sketchbook that I just found while trying to declutter. We used to take the train up to Manchester and then cycle to Rochdale, then catch a train up to the south Lake District and then tour and cycle camp or stay at Youth Hostels. I must have been fit!

From 2021

Posted on October 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, Digital art, Drawing, Leaves, Life, Line drawing, Sketching, Stylus, Tablet, Woman2 Comments

A digital drawing from 2021, I think I drew it on my tablet, I put it away somewhere and I can’t find it! I’ve found somewhere that might upgrade it so I’ll have to start searching!

Anyway I believe this was drawn in sketchbook app with the stylus that comes with the tablet. It was clearly a quick sketch…

River River where do you flow….?

Posted on October 13, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Choir, Colourful, Drawing, Enjoyment, Life, Lovely, Memory, Music, River, Sketching, song2 Comments

One of the loveliest and unusual songs we sing at choir practice is River River.

These are words from memory but I think they are pretty accurate. I had to look up the writers name as we didn’t have it. I hope I’m not breaching copyright by writing out the lyrics? I will delete ths post if here is a problem?

River River where do you flow
With your water the colour of tea
Gold and red in your sandy bed
Do you flow to the wide green sea?
No said the river I flow inland
Sink down deep beneath the rock and the sand.
Under the Geeji and the Mugar tree
Where the desert people can find me
Earth belongs to all, she belongs to no one, she belongs to herself
Earth belongs to all, she belongs to no one, she belongs to herself…..

I was answering someone’s question about how it goes because they recently joined the choir, and I see an image a bit like my drawing in my mind when I sing it.

View

Posted on October 11, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, art and craft group, Black ink, Coloured pencil, Drawing, Sketching, Sunday, View5 Comments

Sunday’s #bandofsketchers prompt was View. I haven’t done much actual drawing recently. I’ve just joined a small art and craft group so I opened the blinds to draw the view, but there’s a lot of plants, in the way.

Sketchy blonde

Posted on October 7, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Drawing, left handed, Profile, right handed, Sketching, three quarter face4 Comments

When I get bored I doodle.

Usually faces either in profile or three quarter positions. But I’ve noticed they usually face left, and I thinks that because I’m right handed. I also draw cats and horses facing left too.

I think its because I’m right handed. I usually draw the edge of the face first, then the eyes and the mouth, and hair and the ear. If you draw across the page you can see what you have drawn without your hand getting in the way. I spoke to someone who is left handed and she draws faces facing right. I haven’t done any research but it would be interesting to find it hw prevalent this is….?

Pointellist portrait

Posted on October 6, 2023October 6, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, digital finger painting, Drawing, Pointellist, Prompt, Random, Sketching2 Comments

Using the glitter tool and then a thin brush in the Artrage app on my phone I created a head of a woman. It’s interesting because the dots are random so placing of the features becomes more inexact so the face seems more natural (not like my usual style). This was inspired by pointellist paintings, the #bandofsketchers prompt was inspiration.

Still doing gratitudes.

Posted on October 5, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 3 gratitudes, feeling better, gratitudes, Life, Memories, Sketching, Thinking, Time6 Comments

After a break because I was injured and fed up I decided to start a new gratitude book. I wrote down what had happened so that I will remember how I was feeling. But I didn’t want to start right from the beginning. So today I’m actually on day 420.

Three gratitudes a day helps balance the bad things that are going on as well. I like adding a small sketch to each gratitude to make it more real to me and helps me remember what went on during the day. I’m glad this idea was suggested to me. It really helps x

Sky

Posted on October 4, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Artrage, ArtRage app, aurora borealis, digital finger painting, Drawing, Imagined, Northern lights, Sketching, Sky2 Comments

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Sky. I’ve always wanted to see the aurora borealis (northern lights). Apparently it’s been visible in the UK recently but as usual it was cloudy here. So here’s my imagined, finger painting in Artrage.

Mallaband-Brown

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