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So, I set ‘water’ as the weekly draw, and it tips down with rain. I have spent most of the day with a toddler dressed in wellies, hat, and raincoat, and there have been many moments which would have made a good picture.
However, no-one wants to sketch in the rain, and I used a photograph […]

It’s the weekend, hooray. Normally I use Saturdays to round-up the week’s posts and tell you that they are all still open, and will remain so. I’m beginning to sink under a torrent of pornographic spam, though, so I’m toying with the idea of closing each post for comments a week or two after it […]

There’s little that’s more dispiriting than spending time and effort on a picture, and it not turning out the way you wanted it. Why does this happen? Well, there are any number of possible reasons:
> You have a picture in your head, but stupid old evolution hasn’t yet given us the ability to transfer a […]

Over in my personal blog, I posted not long ago about a trip I’d made to the garden centre. I ended up buying a huge forsythia in full yellow bloom, and pushing it home in the pushchair while my toddler daughter rode on my shoulders.
The other day at work, a colleague of mine was telling […]

Couple of housekeeping things -
I now have a contact form! It doesn’t fit in with the rest of the site’s design, but I’m working on it. The best thing about it is, it works.
I’ve also managed to put in the last post/next post navigation that a couple of people mentioned would be useful.
I’m still looking […]

When it comes to starting a picture, there are two attitudes that can kill it stone dead before you’ve even started.
If you’re like me, you dash in and start drawing before you’ve thought about it. That can be a good thing, of course, especially if you’re short of time, but I find that it often […]

A blogmate recently (and unbeknownst to him, no doubt, since he was talking about something slightly different!) reminded me of a good technique for looking objectively at our drawings. I’m pretty sure the same technique is detailed in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain*, which I’ve mentioned before. Ad infinitum. I’m not […]

Apologies if you are getting bored with me going on about collage; I will move on to new topics tomorrow.
It’s just that actually making a collage over the weekend reminded me of some techniques that will make it easier for you if you haven’t done much before. This is just the way I work, mind […]

I made a collage yesterday, and I had forgotten how time-consuming it can be - hmm, so much for the Drawanyway promise of ten minutes a day. Mind you, it doesn’t have to take up so much time - an abstract composition may take only minutes. But, typical me, I had to do something fiddly […]

Here’s a quick round up of the week’s posts. As usual, none of these threads are closed, so please feel free to go back and contribute.
> On Monday, I wrote about close-ups versus wide views.
> On Tuesday, I attempted to get you all embarrassing yourselves by drawing in the street.
> On Wednesday, the task […]