Tag: sketching

  • I Went Out to Draw Geese… But Things Happened

    We have been having a lot of heatwaves this summer. It’s been unusually hot. Having built my new studio in the spring the heat has kept me out of it for most of the summer. I thought I’d go down to the canal with my sketchbook and draw the geese. There have been a lot…

  • What can we learn from drawing Sycamore seeds?

    We moved from The Forest, where I knew the trees and their varieties, to the beautiful Derwent valley. The noticeable change for me was in the varieties of trees. There are a lot of Sycamore. Members of the Acer/Maple family, they are everywhere. One book on local history referred to them as “the Derbyshire weed.”…

  • Draw Anywhere? It’s About More Than Drawing

    Can you really draw anywhere? I took my sketchbook with me on a family day out to a farm park with my two-year-old granddaughter. Like most outings with small children, we spent far more time in the playground than looking at the animals. So while she climbed, explored and refused to keep her sun hat…