Category: drawing
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Drawing August: Virtual lines
It’s Drawing August time, a celebration online of all things drawing…see more
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Drawing August: Fingerprints and all!
Drawing August #2 Pastel is possibly the purest form of painting – we work with pure pigment and little else! See more…
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Drawing August: Especially Espresso
It’s Drawing August time, a celebration online of all things drawing…see more
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Drawing February: My studio
Hello! Drawing in February is going to be great if today’s weather holds. It’s so sunny in my little studio that I’ve opened the windows to let in the fresh air. The sun is casting a shadow across my drawing just now, so I thought it would be good time to pause, take some photos and […]
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Experiments
Hello! It’s a time of year when things are drawing to a close but it’s a time when I like to look back over recent work and experiment with new ideas. I’ve been working on a few things lately with several themes in mind but all linked by the thread of people drawn together to […]
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A beautiful day
Hello! Saturday was a lovely day in my part of Leicestershire. I was on my way to meet up with friends, but had to pull over as I passed this field for a quick sketch – just a peaceful sight – a field recently harvested with a distant red kite calling in the distance and a […]
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Still life
Hello! Still working through the daily drawing challenge, #DrawingAugust, I’m finding that I’m drawing all sorts of things! Today, I made a little still life, something I’ve not done for a long time – Happy drawing!
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A bit of a challenge…
For a bit of fun, have a go at the challenge to do a drawing every day through August. You make a drawing, scan or photograph it and send it via Twitter to #DrawingAugust. Here is the one I made earlier today – a preparatory study of cyclists for a new oil painting inspired by the Tour de […]
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Tulips or lollipops?
Hello! Another holiday weekend in the UK and I have to confess that I’m still having a few days of quiet noodling about, not doing very much really! The weather has been lovely and spring is so pretty here that our garden has suddenly lurched into life and ran well past my feeble attempts to […]
Maxine Dodd 