Keeping it simple – Line Drawing

by Drawing Pad | 16 November, 2013 | Blog, Drawing, Sketchbooks, Teaching

All in my Landscape A6 Seawhite Black hardbound sketchbook – that pretty much goes with me everywhere.

Blue wash – place and mood

by Drawing Pad | 29 October, 2013 | Blog, Drawing, Painting, Sketchbooks

I really like how working into these colour wash pens with more water you can disrupt the surface and evoke different possible readings of place – the mood, the weather, the time.

Drawing on trains (again)

by Drawing Pad | 23 October, 2013 | Blog, Drawing, Travel

A week of journeys and some good drawing opportunities. I so enjoyed drawing the couple in the top drawing. Click the images for more...

Rural and Urban

by Drawing Pad | 30 September, 2013 | Blog, Drawing, Rural, Sketchbooks, Travel, Urban

One weekend in Shropshire, the next in London.

Finding stuff to draw in the everyday

by Drawing Pad | 30 August, 2013 | Art, Blog, Books, Drawing, Sketchbooks

It’s not always about finding something exciting or aesthetic to draw but about getting going and drawing what is there and seeing what happens.