Tag: drawing
Look inside my Beach Vacation Sketchbook
This is the sketchbook I took on holiday – or vacation – to the Island of Crete. We didn’t do much other than lie around on the beach, so I spent a lot of time drawing waves and the swimmers. The book has led me to want to do much more sketchbooking and I’m trying…
What do you need to get started drawing?
Ethan Hancock asked me what you need to get started drawing – You really don’t need much, a stick in the sand or and ikea pencil and a cardboard box will do. But here I explain the basic things you might like to get together as a drawing kit to have ready at a moments…
The Farm: Drawings of Rowland Evans Robinson, 1850–1880
This looks like a great exhibition if you happen to be in Vermont. Shame I can’t be there. “Rokeby Museum’s 2015 exhibit — The Farm: Drawings of Rowland Evans Robinson, 1850–1880 — features nearly forty pictures of farm life 150 years ago, when “eating local” was a matter of necessity not a lifestyle choice. Born to abolitionist…