Gratitudes

Posted on September 4, 2022September 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, gratitudes, Help, Life, Positive, Sharing, Sketching, small things, therapeutic, Thinking, three gratitudes4 Comments

I’m getting some help with my mental health and one of the things I’ve taken up is to do a gratitude diary. Basically you write down three things you are grateful for every day. I do it before bed, and I remember small things that have made me happy during the day. Not big dramatic things (today was a bit of an exception because two things were slightly more important) on other days I’ve included the cat on my lap, or standing in the garden full of flowers.

So why do it? It appears to rewire your brain, cutting down on negative thoughts and turning them positive. I have been advised to do it for at least 28 days. I’m not suggesting anyone else does it, but it’s helping me.

Column

Posted on September 1, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, column, Digital drawing, Digital manipulation, Drawing, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was column. I’ve layered up sketching, lines and flood fill tools to create some sort of Greek or Roman column. It’s very sketchy and sort of rustic. I might change it and add leaves to it. I haven’t decided yet. Other column ideas were light and newspaper. I wasn’t sure what to do. But it was an interesting experiment.

Digital again

Posted on September 1, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Blur, Colour, Drawing, Faces, Flood fill, Fun, Lines, Playing, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

An ArtRage background with added drawing on top. This is a sketching app that has some basic tools that are different to the ArtRage app. I used lines, a flood fill and a blurring tool to create this. I like combining different apps, you don’t know what you can get till you try.

Profile in digital art

Posted on September 1, 2022September 1, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Artrage oils, Colours, Digital drawing, Drawing, Metallic, Sketching, StylusLeave a comment

Found my stylus so tried using it on a dotted drawing I did a while ago in ArtRage oils. ArtRage has a metallic slider scale so you can make your drawing look metallic and as it says in the name also has pens that look like oil paint. ArtRage oils is a free app. I actually bought ArtRage which is the full app and it has lots more pens and tools, but I keep forgetting it because its on my tablet, and that’s in a cupboard. Oops! Must get it out and charge it!

It’s not real, honest.

Posted on August 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged aeroplane, Drawing, Flight, Fun, Hubby, Life, Model, Plane, Sketching, yesterdayLeave a comment

Hubby was playing with a model aeroplane yesterday. The trouble was the shutter on my camera reacted a few seconds after I pressed it, so the plane was not in the picture. I had a silly idea. I would superimpose a model plane on the photo. Problem, I don’t have that sort of software on my phone. So I drew a plane instead. Its badly drawn and I had to erase bits of it to get the general shape. But you get the idea of what was happening in reality.

Light

Posted on August 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Blue, blue glass, Candle, candlestick, Life, Light, shadow, Sketching2 Comments

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was light. I drew one of my blue glass candle sticks in felt pen. There’s too much clutter on the shelf so the shadow is imagined as is the candle. I have drawn smoke from the wick which is also visible in the shadow. I could have added a flame but don’t have a memory of how it would look.

Fencing…

Posted on August 28, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, black fine liner pen, Cartoon, Drawing, Fence, fencing, Imagination, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt is ‘Fence’. Not sleeping well so decided to do a cartoon for this to take my mind off things. It’s called ‘fencing’ and it’s two neighbours fighting about a fence! Black fine liner pen.

Fuel price cap

Posted on August 25, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged conservatives, electricity meter, Fuel, Gas, Government, inflation, Life, Oil, Poverty, Sketching4 Comments

Later today the United Kingdom is going to be told the new price cap for Gas and Electricity which will affect the cost of bills. The price is set to skyrocket to about £2300 a year in October but then £4200? Per year in January! Bills are going to be unaffordable for the poorest in society and the question of whether to heat or eat becomes very bad if all you can afford to buy is cheap tinned food but you can’t heat it up.

The UK is supposed to be the sixth richest nation in the world but we seem more interested in giving the fuel companies shareholders masses of money instead of supporting our citizens. Our government is currently deciding who will replace Boris Johnson by letting 160,000 members of the British Conservative party choose the next prime minister instead of doing something about the cost of living crisis. Note to Liz Truss who is likely to win. If you cut taxes that’s fine for the rich, but a lot of people don’t pay them because their incomes are already too low. A 1% cut of nothing is nothing.

Pointed

Posted on August 25, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, fine line ink pen, Pen, Pencil, pointed, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was pointed. I didn’t really know what to do. Not feeling too inspired, I’m ill, so just drew a cone shape with a point on it and a darker shadow then added pen, pencil and paintbrushes with points. I suppose I could have drawn the Shard in London or something like that.

Details

Posted on August 24, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artist, Background, Balance, life model, Memory, Painting, Sketching, WatercolourLeave a comment

Detail from a life study I did several years ago. I’ve chosen the figure in the background who is drawing because I think it’s important in a painting or drawing to show what is going on around the subject. This figure mirrors the seated life model to dome extent. On the other side of the picture is a large cloth hanging down over a screen and table. The artist on the right helps balance the image up. I used a large round brush with a good point to paint in the textures and thin lines. I did this directly onto the paper. I rarely do any pencil drawing on things like this, I draw with my brush.

Mallaband-Brown

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