Pattern

Posted on May 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawing, Clothes, Life, Printing, printing site, Sketching, Surface patternLeave a comment

I keep thinking I should use some of the patterns I draw and paint to create prints on fabric, I’ve certainly done enough over the years. I even have a pair of trousers with a similar pattern on them. I don’t know if I should try one of the online sites to do this, but I don’t know if they would print them well enough. I once bought a dress and a cardigan with a Gustav Klimpt painting and a Van Gogh painting on them, both were really blurred when I got them. I only wore them once, (not thrown away though). I was really disappointed.

Biro….

Posted on May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Biro, Calligraphy, Design, Drawing, Hairspray, Hand, Ink, Pen, shadow, Sketching, WritingLeave a comment

Something to do while I try and get over a sore throat. I haven’t done much today. I walked upstairs once, felt dizzy and came back down again. I think the bug I have has got into my inner ears. I’ve had plenty to drink and I’m taking paracetamol.

Have you ever tried spraying biro with hairspray? Sometimes it makes the ink run I used to use the technique many years ago, it might not work these days if the ingredients in the biro ink have changed. I will experiment.

Memory

Posted on May 15, 2022May 20, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Face, felt pen sketch, gnarled, Memory, Prompt, Sketching, TreeLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was memory. I don’t have a photo of this but it’s stuck in my mind. There was a rock wall and maybe a tree growing up from it, or growing nearby. That is what I see in my minds eye. The tree trunk was very gnarled and each time I walked past I saw a gnarly face.

This is from when I was a child. There was also an avenue of similar trees behind it. But I can’t remember how they were placed. Then there were park railings and houses beyond. Its funny what sticks in the memory. X

Doodling day

Posted on May 15, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged added, Art, Design, Doodle, Doodling, Drawing, Fun, Life, Morning, Pattern, Sketching2 Comments

I started the centre of this months ago then lost the sketch book. I found it again last night and decided to finish it. I tried adding different patterns and shapes. It took me a couple of hours last night and a few more this morning. I do like a good doodle. No tablet or mouse in sight, just straightforward drawing with a black ink pen. Of course I can play with it digitally but I don’t want to at the moment, sometimes original is best. X

Abstract called feathers.

Posted on May 14, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Digital manipulation, Doodle, Drawing, Feathers, Finger painting, flurry, Fun, Life, Sketching3 Comments

Many digital processes, I won’t list them. I use the same apps, just over and over so that you get different effects each time you add a layer. I think it looks like a flurry of feathers after a pillow fight! Or even fireworks exploding. I used a blur tool to get the fuzzy effects.

Spirals clouds or scales?

Posted on May 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, Clouds, Drawing, Layout app, Life, Scales, Sketching, Spirals2 Comments

Your choice. Multiplied image initially drawn in black ink pen, then I added black grey and pale brown shading to give the effect of layers of paper. Finally I twisted each section in my layout app to create a symmetrical pattern. Having done work on my MA based on dragons and Asian art can’t help feeling that a dragon may emerge. I would have to add a layer on to create this. Something to experiment with.

Butterfly?

Posted on May 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage oils, Butterfly, Digital doodle, Digital drawing, Moth, Poem, Poetry, SketchingLeave a comment

Or Moth

Flutter by

We love you

When we see you

In the summer

Riding the breeze

On the flowers

Flitting quickly

In the sun

Why can I see an Owl?

Posted on May 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, interpretation, Life, Pareidolia, Seeing faces, seeing things, Sight, SketchingLeave a comment

Two eyes and a beak, that’s what I can see. I don’t know whether you can see that too? I also see Wales as the shape of a pigs head and Devon and Cornwall as a pigs leg. Scotland looks like a victorian bonnet and the East Coast of England looks like a bottom or a bustle. This is called Pareidolia. I was talking about it to a friend and he sees Wales as a witch? So even though you can look at an image and see something, it won’t necessarily be the same thing. I don’t think everyone has this strange way of looking. Maybe it’s an evolutionary thing? If you can see the tiger in the bushes you can run away before it pounces. It’s your brains interpretation. It can be strange.

Heart

Posted on May 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Black ink fine line pen, Drawing, Felt pen, Heart, Imagine, Life, Peace, Red, Sketching, World5 Comments

How many hearts did I draw? I can’t count them. They took a while to sketch. I’m not sure what I drew them for. I think I’d like to see more love and peace in the world. I would rather draw something like this in the situation the world is in at the moment. I know I can’t change things much, but I can say it. Life is difficult for so many, but the John Lennon song ‘Imagine’ , and also the song ‘Give Peace a Chance’ mean a lot to me. Maybe we should try and do that?

Awesome

Posted on May 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, awesome, Drawing, Electrons, Green, Life, magnetic field, Prompt, Sketching, SkiesLeave a comment

Today for #bandofsketchers we had to draw something ‘Awesome’. One thing I’ve always wanted to do is see the Aurora Borealis, northern lights. The electrons in the solar wind get trapped by Earth’s magnetic fields and get drawn to the north and south poles. There they are drawn down and they interact with the magnetic fields and great auroral lights illuminating the sky. The Southern lights are called the Aurora Australis.

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