Past times

Posted on March 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2004, Art, College, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Life, Memories, muscle memory, Portrait, Sketching6 Comments

Sketches from 2004. The main drawing was a friend and I think the other two were practice faces. I draw faces less now. I try and draw them convincingly but I think you can get tied down into the same lines, the same shapes. It’s hard to break through muscle memory when you have drawn and painted for more than fifty years! I must say I owe a debt to my mom who let me go to college instead of insisting I got a job at the end of my time at school. That time was instrumental in making me the artist I am! X

Just a face

Posted on March 30, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawing, black fine liner pen, Fun, Humour, Life, Poem, Poetry, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Just a face to look at

To assess and see

Is it friendly or anxious?

Or angry about me?

This face is slightly pensive

Thinking about the world

Everythings so expensive

As into the future she’s hurled!

This is a nonsense poem.

Not much point at all

Just keep the rhyme going

Or will this poem stall!

The future?

Posted on March 30, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cat, Design, Drawing, Fun, Idea, Miaow, Robot, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was the future based on the Potter Graysons Perry’s Art club on TV.

Oh my! What to draw. Bogged down writing my college report I decided to draw future ‘P. E. T’ a personal environmental trainer (and jukebox). Lol. It also purrs and mioaws! Just a silly doodle.

Doodled

Posted on March 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Doodle, Drawing, Photodirector app, Sketching, Sketching app, TextureLeave a comment

Lines added to the sketch of my friend using a sketching app on my phone. Then I used a flood fill to colour the background and used the photodirector app to add texture. The drawing is still visible underneath the digital doodling. It’s interesting to play with images. It might not be very artistic but I enjoyed working on it.

Quick friend sketch

Posted on March 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, five minute sketch, Friend, Fun, Life, Sketching, Spanish weekend, Waiting room galleryLeave a comment

Friend sketch. I try and remember to take a small sketch pad with me and when I have the chance I will draw for a few minutes. My sketchpad is like a visual diary, I might use a drawing as a basis for another piece of art, or simply as an aide memoir reminding me of what happened on a particular day. This day was a visit to the Waiting room gallery to see a Spanish Exhibition and tile workshop.

Tile rubbing

Posted on March 27, 2022March 27, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Red, Rubbing, Sketching, soft red pencil, The Waiting Room gallery, TileLeave a comment

Not enough time to draw it, so I did a rubbing with a soft red pencil instead. You can see which areas are raised on it. A different version of mark making but it is interesting to vary how you produce images. This was at the Waiting Room gallery this morning. I think I might play with this image, duplicating it or adding more texture, even changing the hue of it.

Mom sketched

Posted on March 27, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, colour balance, Drawing, Felt pens, Mother, Mothers day, Portrait, Prompt, Sketching1 Comment

Felt pen drawing of my Mother taken from a painting I did of her several years ago. She passed away after I did the portrait. This was for todays prompt, Mother, as it is Mothering Sunday in the UK. The felt pen colours were a bit dark so I’ve adjusted it a bit. #bandofsketchers

Friends bear

Posted on March 25, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bear, Coffee morning, Drawing, Friend, Fun, Group, Life, Sketching, Teddy, ToyLeave a comment

We went to a coffee morning today and a new friend from the group had a smartly dressed bear with her. I had taken my sketchpad so I decided to draw it.

Took about fifteen minutes to draw. Black ink fine line pen. Tomorrow I might try and do some actual painting!

Millifiore?

Posted on March 23, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Facebook, Fun, Memory, SketchingLeave a comment

Another old pattern, this was done in ArtRage oils and is another Facebook memory that popped up. I think this was done on another phone. I like seeing the way my mind was working a few years ago. More abstract and possibly more experimental than now!

Seven years ago

Posted on March 23, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Life, Memory, Seven years ago, Sketcher app, SketchingLeave a comment

Faces drawn in a nice app I used to use a few years ago. But I had to delete it because I don’t have enough memory on my phone. Maybe when I finally upgrade it I will reinstall it. I think it was called sketcher app. I think I still have it on another device but that’s not linked to the Internet very well so I have to mess about trying to link things. Maybe I should get more organised. I quite like this.

Mallaband-Brown

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