Category: Drawing

  • Shirley Hughes Remembered

    I first met Shirley Hughes at the Society of Authors, Children’s Writer’s And Illustrators Group (CWIG) Summer Party, probably 1987. I had a book contract and so was allowed to apply for membership of the Society and was invited along to the party. I was very new to it all. Travelling up to town from…

  • Snowdrop mug added to store

    The internet is a wonderful thing. I have made a mug design from the snowdrop sketches I made last week, which you can buy direct from Spring.com The design is from pencil and watercolour wash sketches of Galanthus Elwessi varieties Monostictus and Dionysus which I picked up at the snowdrop garden in Tintern on the…

  • The one simple way to draw better

    We went to see the snowdrops at the sculpture garden in Tintern. I bought a couple of plants and decided to draw them while talking about attention spans. Thanks to the internet, TV and streaming etc we now have the attention spans of gnats. The chances of you actually watching this video all the way…