Smudged nose

Posted on January 2, 2024 Posted in Cat, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Life, Memory, rescue cat, smudges, Splodges, Tabby, Tuxedo cat4 Comments

All my cats have black patches on their noses. Apparently the black in cats is actually a type of tabby (ginger) and sometimes in bright sunlight you can even see stripes where part of the coat has faded. Most of the cats I have had have been black and white, none of them were pedigree and a lot of them were cool characters. One particular cat was very intelligent. She came when I whistled or called, but would also jump across gaps when I called her and liked to ride on my shoulder. She was a stray when we got her and lived to a good age of around 19.

Want to get a pet with an independent personality? Think of adopting a rescue cat!

Digital splodges

Posted on January 20, 2023January 20, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cracked, Digitally manipulated, Dots, Fun, Instagram, Pattern, Photodirector, SplodgesLeave a comment

I have to play. My phone has a dotty tool and something like cracked paint, so I combined the two, then distorted and textured it in my Photodirector app. I could try and change and adapt it to something else. I will think about it. I also duplicated the unfiltered image and posted it to Instagram. Fun.

Horses from splodges

Posted on June 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on paper, Art, Blue, Design, Green, horse heads, Horses, Paint, Pareidolia, Red, Splodges, White, YellowLeave a comment

Horses are wonderful animals. They have such amazing characters. When I tried to find something in the matching splodges to the previous post I almost immediately found the large horse head. Then the other two emerged from the patterns. I just needed to add some white, green and yellow to differentiate between them.

Splodges into heads

Posted on June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on paper, Art, Faces, heads, Images, Pareidolia, Real life, Sketching, SplodgesLeave a comment

Paint splodges turned into heads. First I saw an eye, then a nose. An open mouth and teeth. I just like looking for things. I was always good at spotting things on those spot the difference cartoons in magazines and newspapers.

I’m good at navigation too and I think that’s the same kind of thing- pattern recognition. I think it’s something humans can practice. Maybe digital and social media is a bad thing if it does not help you interact with the real world.

Rorschach blots?

Posted on June 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on paper, Art, blobs, Colours, Fun, ink blots, Pareidolia, rorschach, Splodges2 Comments

Acrylic paint splodge between two of my sketchbook pages. I used red, yellow, blue and white in dots then pressed the pages together. Once it dries I want to draw the things I can see on top of the blobs. I think I can see a clown fish and a calf. My hubby says he can see a tiger. I know a very good artist who uses random patterns in something called Shibui art. She draws on top and creates wonderful images. She is very skilled in this type of art… I will see what it turns into….

Done!

Posted on May 11, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Butterfly, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, Nature, Pareidolia, Pattern, Sketching, SplodgesLeave a comment

Two days of hard work to tie up all the loose ends of this semesters college work. I only hope it all makes sense. I tried fitting imges on a word document, they came out tiny on the PDF. I tried using PowerPoint, it played up, and the images are huge! Ah well, computers are not my speciality.

At least now I can think about life outside of college for a couple of weeks till the start of the next semester. I can try and catch up with life.

Abstract?

Posted on April 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colours, Ink, Life, Paint, Pattern, Shibui, Splodges2 Comments

A pattern of splodges and marks in ink and paint. What can I turn it into if I draw over it? I’m not sure, it might be a series of faces, eyes, animal heads. People dancing. Whatever is there I will try and find it.

There is a friend of mine on Facebook who creates art from patterns like ghus. She calls it Shibui Found Art. She creates wonderful pictures, maybe I can try and do something with this.

Cat behind nets

Posted on April 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black ink, black paint, Bubble wrap, Cat, Felt pen, net curtain, Splodges, Watercolour, WindowLeave a comment

I decided to do a simple drawing and painting of one of my cats looking out the window. Then I thought I would use the bubble wrap I’d added black paint to. I stuck it on so it acts as a flap. Now it looks like net curtains. The black splodges also give the bare branched tree a few leaves!

Goldfish?

Posted on April 19, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, black paint, Goldfish, Imagined, Life, Pond, Splodges, Water, Watercolours1 Comment

I used monoprint black splodges for this. They were collaged onto a page I’d printed dots from bubble wrap covered in black paint. I realised I could make out two goldfish in the patterns. So I used watercolours and black ink to complete the picture. Slightly reminds me of Japanese woodblock images.

Portraits with splodges

Posted on April 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, black paint, Bubble wrap, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Painting, Portrait, Splodges, Watercolours6 Comments

Ten minute portrait studies with black paint splodges from bubble wrap. I used watercolour and black ink pens for the portraits. We did some minoprint a few weeks back but I found gluing down bits of paper then drawing over the top difficult so tried this instead. It also makes you consider where to paint the face!
We were using found items to add interest. My favourite is the pot of brushes obscuring the face of one of the sitters.

Mallaband-Brown

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