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 Linzie Hunter: Spam one-liners
For a while now I’ve been planning to write about using words and letters in, or as, images. Perhaps because my toddler is at the stage where we’re reading a lot of ABC books and playing with a lot of alphabet toys, or perhaps because I’ve always had a liking for signs and […]

A drop-in activity at our local museum reminded me this weekend of the art of rubbing. Not the kind they’re trying to ban on the Tokyo underground, but the sort of thing you used to do at playgroup and probably haven’t since.
They’d set out the museum room as a kind of arty kids’ paradise, with […]

Thanks to everyone who entered the competition last week - far more people than I expected. Congratulations to Gina M, who wins the Art Doodle book.

 
Things Fall Apart by Martin Symons
 
I guess our parents just hammered the lesson home a little too firmly: we don’t draw on walls. Well, of course we don’t. It costs money to paint and decorate, so naturally we want it to stay nice. Here’s a question, though: could it look that little bit nicer, and […]

 
Siân Bowen is an artist whose primary medium is drawing, in the broadest definition of that term. Her work has an intimacy and immediacy that is often enhanced by using papers which have a history. She has made pieces incorporating fragments cut from 19th-century Florentine letters and documents, and has drawn on wallpaper retrieved from […]

Yowsa, and happy weekend. Here’s this week’s round-up:
> On Monday, I launched the first ever Draw Anyway competition. There’s still a chance to enter. We have a disproportionate number of entries from USA, so come on, even it out a bit. The closing date is Monday and the winner will be announced on Tuesday […]

Apologies for the small image today. I came across it yesterday while perusing a charity Christmas card catalogue at the bus stop. I hope you can squint enough to see it, because I think it’s worth it.
Now and again, an image comes along that just makes my heart skip. This was in the middle of […]

At the risk of becoming a blog purely about competitions, I thought I’d just mention a intriguing contest being run by Moo cards just now. In case you don’t know, Moo are a company who cleverly segue with your Flickr account to allow for a very easy way to print business cards and postcards. Like […]

So, you know your hands like… well, like the back of your hand. Only, I’d question the accuracy of that particular idiom, because, when it comes down to it, most of us become completely stuck when it comes to drawing hands, even our own. Many is the perfectly capable life-drawing that is completely ruined by […]

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I had dinner at a posh restaurant with colleagues last week. It was one of those places where the presentation of the food is paramount.
It occured to me that so much work had already gone into the look of my dishes that the least I could do was to attempt […]