Daily Art

Ink and wash Apple

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“There never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.” ~ Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Sometimes I sketch concepts on my iPad when an idea occurs and I want to get it down quickly or don’t feel like dealing with the mess of using analogue materials. I often tap the tablet’s screen when holding my Apple Pencil and it opens an Apple Notes page with the drawing tools panel open. Most times I take this as an unplanned opportunity to relax for a few moments and jot down some concept, scribble down an idea or draw a random object. I’ve drawn and painted a ton of apples these past months and this time I tried out Note’s new watercolour tool. I chose red, created a curving swath of ‘paint’ as the background, completing the object with an ink pen line drawing. I then enhanced the watercolour, added some splashes and the cast shadow.

Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2023.

Cloudscape: February 13, 2023

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Cloudscape February 13, 2023

“When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.” ~ Antonio Porchia


DAILY PAINTING: Today it’s a quick cloudscape, this time with a bright colour space that brings an aqua-green into the mix.

Really enjoy these quick sketches that encompass movement, stretching the boundaries of possibility, taking my imagination to more expansive places.

Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2023.


Tree Sketch 2-12-23

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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” ~ Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

Lately I’ve been on a tree-drawing binge. This tree concept framework is based on some of my vintage pastels (see thumbnail below) worked in a style that I want to revitalize. I’ll build on this concept with various mediums going forward.


Art copyright Patricia White 2023.

Scribble Ornament Sketch FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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“When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.” ~ Birgitte Hjort Sorensen, Danish Actress

This is just a wee scribble that turned into a hanging ornament. My mother used to gift me and my sisters an ornament every Christmas with the year written on it. It is one of the things I miss now that mom and dad are no longer with us.

Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2023.

Old Man Tree – January 31, 2023

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“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.” ~ Thomas Fuller

Another tree sketch created in the same session as the Spotty Tree sketch, spurred by finding an old oil painting from 1972 I had gifted to my dad, retrieving it while cleaning out his apartment after his passing in 2006..

Old Man Tree began as a normally configured tree but I noticed some facial-like features in part of the image and it quickly transformed into a tree character with craggy twig-fingered ‘hands’ at the end of his ‘arm’ branches and twisted aging trunk ‘body’.

He may become a character in an adventure book that I’m writing.

Artwork copyright Patricia White 2023.

Spotty Tree – January 31, 2023

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“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”  ~ Kahlil Gibran 

My interest in sketching trees was ‘twigged’ when I recently unearthed an old oil painting of a tree from a storage closet in my studio, and went on a tree drawing spree. This is Spotty Tree, drawn January 31, 2023.

This is the vintage painting that spurred this theme. Painted in 1972. Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2023.

Mom’s Sugar Spoon

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This is a simple line drawing to document a beautiful antique silver spoon my mom used as a sugar spoon at special family gatherings. Its intricate raised design features grape vines and curvilinear elements that, even tho it has value as a family memento, makes this a very special piece that stands on its own.

I hope to render the spoon in various media as I go forward. Likely using watercolour (with or without ink outlines) and/or graphite and coloured pencil. This is part of an ongoing personal project to document some of our family collectables.

Artwork copyright Patricia White 2023.

Coloured Pencil Landscape Sketch January 25, 2023

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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
~ Marcel Proust, French Novelist

DAILY PAINTING is an effort to keep my art-making skills active, develop new techniques and generally just keep discovering new ways to document the world I see and imagine. This quick sketch drawn with coloured pencils and white charcoal, is an imagined vista. I scored the paper with a small ball-headed stylus before putting pencil to paper so those areas would remain white when the pencil was drawn across the indentations. Think I’ll use a larger stylus the next time to make those lines more prominent.

Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2023.

Melancholy girl Notes Sketch January 19, 2023

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Melancholy Girl Sketch

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.” ~ Victor Hugo

Accidentally tapped my sleeping iPad and the Apple Notes app opened with the set of drawing tools active, so I took it as a sign to stop what I was doing (coding I think) and play for a bit. Doodled for a while till a recognizable form poked its nose out of the chaos of pencil strokes. I dubbed her ‘Melancholy Girl’ as she gazes pensively from behind a flowing mane of hair.

Artwork Copyright Patricia White 2023.