Doodling again

Posted on June 15, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, B'arts, chamber of trade, Creativity, factory group, Quiz, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

This was meant to say: fledgling artists? at factory event at B’arts.

Basically it was a meeting of local artists and creative to talk about how the pandemic and other events was effecting the local creative community. It was good because they had a comedy quiz set up so we merrily brainstormed ideas of what we could do to improve things.

Eventually four teams came up with varying ideas, and the ‘factory’ team from the local chamber of commerce agreed to act on our ideas! Some of that will hopefully be about art administration, accounting, mentoring and other practical help. I hope it does.

Talking about creativity it comes in a week when our local city council held a creative conference about our city, but declined to invite local historic and architectural experts. Instead they held it by invitation only and bought in people from other cities. Thanks for the non inclusion!

Trading

Posted on June 14, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, economics, fair trade, Life, Poverty, Prompt, Sketching, tradingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was trading. I was thinking about all the crops that get sent around the world that don’t really pay the growers a fair price. Many people in the world only earn a few pounds a day, not enough to live well, not enough to pay for education or health services. I wish more people bought fair trade crops, but I guess as the cost of living crisis becomes worse the people at the bottom of the ladder will get treated worse. X

Splodges morphed

Posted on June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital manipulation, Drawing, Layout app, Photodirector, Sketching, Sketching with patternLeave a comment

This image has gone through a lot of processes. It is actually the coloured splodges that I played with to create Tiger cub and clown fish. I’ve added texture, changed the hue, duplicated sections of the image, and put it through various apps. I have increased its sharpness and added grunge and structure. I know, you’re asking why? Because it’s interesting. You can create a massive amount of colour and pattern. I don’t know when I start how the image will turn out, I just keep playing till it looks done. I’m sketching with pattern, digitally manipulating the splodges. X

Clownfish

Posted on June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, clown fish, Colours, Doodle, Drawing, Fish, fountain pen, Painting, SketchingLeave a comment

Last night I also tried drawing a clown fish and thus is what I came up with. I used a fountain pen to draw over the acrylic paint. I hope this isn’t too silly. It looks like a happy fish. Maybe I should have tried lighter blue and red so that you can see the pen drawn on top of it.

Not sure if this is a sketch, cartoon or a doodle. And in a way I wished I had done a bit better details on it, maybe including scales? I might do more to it, I might play with it more….

Tiger cub

Posted on June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black ink, Blue, Doodle, finding images, Fun, Pareidolia, Red, rorschach, Sketching, Tiger, yellow whiteLeave a comment

Here’s the tiger cub from paint blots. Stripes were added with ink pen and felt pen. I think it works. I’m not sure about the red as it might look like blood, but it’s only really a doodle so it’s not a serious piece of art. Just a bit of fun. I wonder what I would make of a real Rorschach test?

North

Posted on June 12, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cat, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, North, Sketching, weather vaneLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was North. I decided to draw a design for a weather vane that points North. I thought I’d rather draw this rather than someone standing at the North Pole. Either that or a compass could have been a choice. Felt pen drawing in my sketchbook.

Never say bad art

Posted on June 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, black pen, Bricks, Chimney, Design, Drawing, Etruria, Hubby, Life, Sketching, Stoke-on trent2 Comments

When we went to the canal festival a few weeks ago we both sat and drew. My hubby did a quick sketch of the large chimney at the back of the museum. You can see that although he doesn’t normally draw he’s got the idea of perspective and the regular lines on top of the bricks are the iron bands supporting the chimney all the way up its length. He’s also included a roof and trees and a brick wall.

Art isn’t something he generally does. He will pick up an adult colouring book sometimes but he tends to colour in with lines rather than shading things in fully. I think that is because he has a lot of anxiety and his mind bounces about and he doesn’t settle to one thing. But he is willing to try. I think that’s important. Art should be for everyone. They might not be Raphael or Titian but who knows what might emerge? Art is, I think, very important to humans, for aesthetics or design, communication or lifestyle. Just do it! ❤️

Eye

Posted on June 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Drawing, Eye, flames, Life, Photodirector, Sight, Sketching, Star, YellowLeave a comment

Look at you,

Star-ing out at me

Flame of yellow eye

Iris shaped and twisted

Sight burnt by the light

Scrunched into a small space

Tears flood your lashes

Dark shadows cast

Hard stare

Thoughtful and sad.

Movement

Posted on June 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, cartwheel, Doodle, Drawing, Falling, Felt pens, Fun, hop, Jumping, Life, Movement, Scribble, Sketchbook, SketchingLeave a comment

I do odd doodles in my sketchbook. This wS a drawing of someone falling, then I added stick figures of jumping and handstands and other movements. Why not? It’s a good mental exercise to try and think what the positions of limbs are when the body moves. It’s a bit scruffy, but I’m trying to get the shapes right. I think the falling one was hardest. Positioning of hands and arms from a memory of someone falling is not easy!

Pigeon

Posted on June 9, 2022June 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Bird, Biro, Drawing, Fun, Life, Pigeon, Sketchbook, SketchingLeave a comment

Pigeon, today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was bird. I decided not to Google a bird, but to try and draw from memory. I think it’s a reasonable representation, I dare not look at a photo of one to see how wrong I’ve got it!

Biro drawing in my sketchbook.

Mallaband-Brown

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