#urbansketchersstoke

Posted on July 10, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #urbansketchersstoke, #uskstoke, Architecture, Black and white, Drawing, Grey, Shadows, SketchingLeave a comment

After over a year I finally went out today with my local urban sketchers group to a place called Keele Hall, part of Keele University. Its near Newcastle-Under-Lyme in Staffordshire. The hall was originally the home of Ralph Sneyd and his son a couple of centuries ago. It was then taken over as Stoke-on-Trent University but then was taken over as Keele University, one of the first campus universities in the UK.

Too complicated! I should have been there at 11, but by the time I got there and started it must have been 11.45, then time flew by. The sun was so bright I decided to lurk in a shadow, but even then it was hard to see details.

Ice cream

Posted on July 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cold, Food, Icecream, Prompt, Sketching, sprinkles, Summer, SweetLeave a comment

#bandofsketchers prompt yesterday was ‘sweet’. I’ve been eating far too much ice cream recently. I used post it notes for the sauce and sprinkles and the tub, then shaded and drew with a fine line black ink pen. The shading was done with a pale green felt pen. This is meant to indicate soft ice cream, the stuff they sometimes call Mr Whippy!

Le Tour

Posted on July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Collage, France, Fun, le Tour, malliot jeun, peloton, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Yellow JerseyLeave a comment

Chasing, racing, riding fast

Le Tour enthrals

France in three weeks

A journey of courage

Tail wind, head wind

Peloton group

Cycling up alps

Down valleys

Rain or snow

Burnt by the sun

Super human effort

Yellow Jersey holder

Speed and elation

And the winner is?!

Showers

Posted on July 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Cartoon, Digital art, Digital doodle, Drawing, Photoshop, SketchingLeave a comment

For today’s #bandofsketchers prompt ‘showers’ I decided to draw a cartoon. I’ve not had much practice doing them, but I just went with the flow.. Lol.

Digital sketch just done for fun. X

Shall I delete some posts?

Posted on July 3, 2021July 5, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blank verse, Digital drawing, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Thinking, ThoughtLeave a comment

I write about so many things.

Pour out words on the page.

My mind is full of thoughts

Too many to control

They fly out of my eyes,

My ears.

Where to stop?

Someone suggested deleting posts..

Should I remove them?

Cut back, reduce them?

Take the time to edit.

Or just leave them.

Enough or too much?

I will give it thought.

County show

Posted on July 3, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Black and white drawing, county show, Drawing, heavy horses, Horses, Life, SketchingLeave a comment

Sketch I did for Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt ‘show’ which I didn’t have time to post. This shows two heavy horses. They were part of a team of four pulling a brewery cart. One of the events that happen at county shows. I think I’ve captured their characters.

Smeatons tower

Posted on June 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #skylandscapeartistoftheyear, Art, Black and white, Black ink, Drawing, Plymouth, Sketching, Smeatons Tower2 Comments

Sky landscape artist of the year is on again so I quickly found Plymouth and Smeatons Tower that is featured in this weeks programme. The tower was a lighthouse built out in the sea. But it was rebuilt when an automatic one took over. This drawing took me ten minutes.

Brown bear

Posted on June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Animal, Bear, brown bear, Drawing, gold and black, gold glitter paint, Sketch, Sketching4 Comments

I drew a splodge of gold with my finger because my gold glitter paint is drying out and the sponge I use has gone rock hard. I wondered what it looked like and decided a Brown Bear. I found an image on the net I could use and added the tree. I drew over it in black felt pen and black calligraphy pen to add shadow and detail.

My finger is covered in gold glitter now but I don’t mind. It turned out OK.

Weird idea…

Posted on June 27, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, carried, Design, Doodle, Drawing, logo idea, Prompt, Sketching, Weird4 Comments

This was weird, a friend on WhatsApp is trying to come up with a logo for his name that starts with a B and he had drawn letter B’s holding a pencil, so I suggested a Bee carrying a pencil and writing the letter B…. And it fits with today’s #bandofsketchers prompt which is ‘carried’. I might just leave this or I might work on it?

Digital drawing of Jazz

Posted on June 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Drawing, Fun, jazz, Learning, Pattern, Sketchfu, Sketching1 Comment

I was talking about digital art, about simple ideas to create interesting images. This is one of my old digital drawings I did years ago. Blocks of colour with added squiggles then drawn over the top with black, white and a few colours. Yes I did use different opacities but I think you coukd do something like this without them…

Mallaband-Brown

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