Cheering myself up

Posted on March 20, 2020March 20, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Distraction, Fun, Home, Kettle view, Kettle?, Life, Self isolating, Sketching, Urban sketching, Washing up, WorkLeave a comment

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I’ve joined a group on Facebook where the idea is to post cheerful things, and not mention the virus.

One of today’s challenges was to post a ‘kettle’ view. I think I took it too literally, this is a view of my kettle.

I posted it, then saw beautiful pictures of kitchens, or views out of the windows of neat and tidy houses.

On a seperate page the urban sketchers challenge was to draw ‘working from home’ as I’m semi retired I’m not really doing that. Craft fairs and exhibitions are off for the time being, and I genuinely have not felt that creative this week. But I wanted to do the challenge, so I drew this.

Washing up waiting to be done..

It’s still waiting…

Urban Sketchers, draw a selfie…

Posted on March 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 30day challenge, Art, Challenge, Drawing, Fun, Life, Pencil sketch, self portrait, Selfie, Sketchbook, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent, What to do while self isolatingLeave a comment

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Selfie’ portrait, including phone and the canvas of a kingfisher it’s propped up on. Old brushes and easle. Background on the phone is a painting I did in about 1982,of my imagined self, so a selfie of a self portrait? Happy to join the challenge. Why is the photo a mirror image to what was on the screen I was drawing?

Oh my double chins! How difficult it is to draw while trying to look over your glasses because I can’t see clearly. I need varifocals, but after spending loads on a pair a few years ago I hated them so much I never wore them again!

Sketching with urban sketchers means including the background and having the image in context. Why not do your own selfie?

Colour that cat…!

Posted on March 18, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Cat, Colour, Design, Digital drawings, Drawing, Fun, SketchingLeave a comment

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Two year old digital sketch. I’m just posting it for fun. All I’ve done for the last couple of days is moan about the virus or WordPress. Enough!

My love is for colour and pattern. Cats are also in the mix. I’m not saying this is a good drawing. It’s rough and ready, not anatomically correct, but it’s a bit of fun.

I’m going to try and find more apps to draw on. I’ve got obsessed by a colouring by numbers website and I’ve coloured over 200 images in just a few days. I think I’m sticking my head in the sand.

Primary colours, bold lines, pattern = fun?

Knitted drawing

Posted on March 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Applications, Art, Design, Digital art, Digital devices, Drawing, Drawing apps, Fun, Memory, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

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I loved this drawing app, but when I changed devices I couldn’t get it to load on my new tablet. It was fascinating to see this texture appear in the drawing. I cannot remember where I got it from, and now I can’t even remember it’s name! Over the years I’ve done lots I’d digital art, some of it is more easy to use than others. I think this was relatively simple.

One of the things about art applications is the amount if memory they take. I’ve found that I cannot run all the apps I want to because I mainly use my devices to create art, and that takes up memory on them. I don’t know if I’m unusual in doing this. I probably need to delete a lot of things, it’s just I’m too attached.

Outside today

Posted on March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Countryside, Drawing, Eccleshall, Life, Sketching, Soughing, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Trees, Urban Sketchers, Wind, WindyLeave a comment

I went out with Urban sketchers today and was at an old farm near Eccleshall to draw. I took a few photos. I need to take good pictures of my drawings.

The day was grey, overcast with great rushes of wind that you could hear soughing through the trees. Starting far way you could hear it rushing and pushing the tree branches. Rooks were flying and calling in the air, scooting about and apparently enjoying it. We even saw a murmuration of Starlings flocking in the distance.

I sat on a white metal garden chair, strong but cold. I ended up folding up my scarf to stop my bum going numb with the cold. Within a few minutes I was shivering and then I got used to it although my hands started to go numb with the chill. Luckily there was hot tea available. It was very kind of the artists that live there to let a crowd of about twenty urban sketchers come round and draw everything from trees to stone dogs.

Quick drawing

Posted on February 25, 2020 Posted in SketchingTagged Art, Drawing, Life, Picture, Portrait, Sketcher free, SketchingLeave a comment

I’m trying sketching in an app called sketcher free, it’s interesting drawing with textured pens, but it’s not easy to control. This is drawn on a tablet, so the format of wordpress is different in it, not wordpress classic. I’m not sure this is going to work. Anyway you only learn by having a go at things, if you don’t try you never know if you can do it. I’ve found the categories tab but I can’t find the sharing tab . So at least I’m doing something , still not feeling well.

A drawing of a steam engine

Posted on February 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Cartridge paper, Drawing, Middleport, Middleport pottery, Sketching, Staffordshire, Steam engine, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

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I like to try and sketch things when I’m visiting places, and this is my attempt at a steam engine when we were visiting. Middleport pottery in August 2018.i don’t know why I thought it was bad, it doesn’t look too awful now in hindsight. I can be too critical of myself sometimes. It’s a bit wonky but when you are trying to draw a moving bit of machinery it’s not easy. Anyway I’m publishing it, so I’ve forgiven myself for my mistakes.

Black ink pen on cartridge paper, it’s probably in one of my numerous sketchbooks, somewhere in the pile of drawings and sketches I have built up over the years.

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