Don’t undersell?

Posted on November 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Illustration, Life, Market@48, Potbank Hotel, Sketching, Spode, Staffordshire, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Urban sketching6 Comments

I’m a bad person! I try and sell things at a reasonable price, but then I like being nice to people and I often haggle myself down on prices! It’s like I’m at a car boot not a craft fair. Help! But I can’t employ someone. Got to do it for myself…

I think everyone should have the opportunity to have art if they want it, and forget that people have to make a living out of it. I will not be winning business woman of the year…

While I was stall sitting I did a quick sketch of people around a stall across the way from me. There are some lovely things for sale. On the whole I’m enjoying myself.

Singing workshop

Posted on October 6, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Fun, One inch challenge, Penkhull, Penkhull Village Hall, Singing, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Urban sketching, WorkshopLeave a comment

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Quick sketch of people singing at a workshop today up at Penkhull village hall.

We sand lots of autumn songs, including old English songs and a poem set to music by the poet Lemn Sissay and musician Anni Tracey. We also sang a French song written in 1945 and translated into English called Autumn Leaves. It was by Joseph Kosma and Johnny Mercer with arrangement by Greg Stephens.

We got on really we and had a lovely time. The teachers Kate and Penny were very patient and helpful. I enjoyed it

At the warehouse

Posted on August 30, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Etruria, EtruriaArtists, Pencil, Sketch, Stoke-on trent, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

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Although we spent most of the evening moving junk out of the warehouse at Etruria I did get a short time to do some sketching. It’s a bit stern looking but it’s relatively accurate. I give you…..My hubby. A quick pencil sketch.

Art at the Villas

Posted on June 22, 2019June 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Art at the Villas, Ceramics, Drawing, Life, Oakhill, Painting, Pottery, Print, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Textiles, The Villas, Urban Sketchers, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

I was going to get up early today and going on a community walk along the local canal, but I got up late. I also considered going to an Urban Sketchers event at the Chatterley Whitfield nature reserve. But again I was too late. In the end we went to the Villas which is just down the road. There was an event called art at the Villas. The show was almost at the top of the road on the right hand side. The road is unadopted so go carefully driving up there. We parked at the bottom and walked.

The house we went in and its garden were full of interesting art. There were prints, original tee shirts, paintings, ceramics and a warm welcome. They were also accepting donations for charity. If you feel like visiting its in the Villas up the hill on the right off London Road, Oakhill , Stoke-on-Trent.

Since I was there and had missed other sketching opportunities I did a quick drawing of the garden and summerhouse in the distance.

Cafe sketch

Posted on June 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cafe scene, Design, Doodle, Drawing, Life, Pen and ink, Pink cake stands, Small sketch, Supermarket, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

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Drawn while waiting for a friend, the cake stands are bright pink and full of sugary delights that I avoided. I had strawberries and cream and a fruit smoothie which was made of smooshed frozen berries and very cold! This was a 20 minute drawing so didn’t go for any details. The woman walked along to the till as I was drawing so fitted her in at that end. Since urban sketchers last weekend I’m doing more of this kind of thing.

Holiday sketches.

Posted on June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Chalets, Drawing, Fun, Life, Lodge, Scribbles, Sketching, Trees, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

Some sketches from our short break. Including two doodles when it was to wet and dark and the TV was on the blink. My hubby reading, a sketch inside the cabin, a drawing of Fountains Abbey in the rain, the view out of the window, and finally trees which I coloured in.

Sketching keeps me occupied and gives me something to do when I want to be artistic.

It doesn’t cost much to draw, you can use a biro and the back of an envelope. You have to try and stay dry but it’s good to get out and about.

Yesterdays sketches

Posted on June 2, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Etruria festival, Etruria Industrial museum, Fun, Life, Sketching, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

Just a few, sketched while at the Etruria festival. There was a giant chess board which I drew with a black sharpie, a few people were playing the game, but it seemed mainly young children walking across the board.

I was trying to draw the trees round the back of the museum. The trouble was there were too many leaves. One of the drawings is of the flint mill chimney and part of my husbands head. The other is of a couple sitting and drinking tea. I didn’t want them to know so I kept having to look away when they looked towards me.

Winkhill Mill Co

Posted on May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cliff Vale, Drawing, Hartshill, Industrial archaeology, Industrial history, Life, Machinery, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, Swan Street, Urban Sketchers, Urban sketching, Winkhill Mill CoLeave a comment

I needed a break today from painting, so I went out with Stoke Urban Sketchers for a couple of hours this afternoon. I’m still a bit in and croaky so I couldn’t manage more than that. Thanks to Danny, Andy (hope I’ve got his name right) and Richard from Winkhill Mill for letting us have access to the building. If you wonder what the machine is I think it’s a dust press for making tiles.

I went to the Mill a few weeks ago to see an exhibition there and I drew one of the tiles, the Fox and the Crow.

Stoke has lots of hidden museums. It’s open on a Friday and I think Saturdays?

Tonight’s sketches.

Posted on March 7, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beehive pub, Drawing, Fun, Honeywall, Life, Portraits, Sketching, Staffordshire, Still life, Stoke-on trent, Urban sketching1 Comment

These are the best of the bunch of sketches I did at the Beehive pub in Honeywall tonight. Some of the others were not too bad, but when you are trying to draw moving people it is difficult to get enough information down rapidly enough. That was what happened with the other ones – I was not speedy enough.

One image I do want to get is my friend Kate playing the trombone. It’s a wonderful sound in a small pub. I’m also in love with the gleam and reflections on it. Next month I will try and get closer and do a better drawing if I can.

These drawings were done in a Seawhite of Brighton Plein Air Sketchbook size A5 with watercolour paper. Using a Bic grip roller black roller ball pen.

Terracotta warriors

Posted on October 18, 2018October 18, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black and white, Blog, China, Drawing, Life, Liverpool, Sketching, Terracotta army, Terracotta warriors, Urban sketching2 Comments

I enjoyed drawing today. We went round the terracotta warriors exhibition at the world museum at Liverpool.

The exhibition was crowded and I felt guilty at standing the way of the crowd as I drew. I got barged a couple of times and someone jarred my arm just as I was drawing one of their faces. But I also got a few complements. It was hard work. I took lots of photos. But drawing really makes you look. And quick sketching makes it all the more of a challenge. I finished my sketchbook but I think it was worth it. I’m hoping my drawing skills are improving. Sometimes I’m still a bit hesitant but that’s to be expected.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Urban sketching