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A very happy Christmas to all Draw Anyway readers everywhere. Thanks for your continued support. I hope you are scribbling away on new sketchbooks that Santa brought you - in between breaks for festive mince pies and chocolates, that is. I look forward to seeing your holiday images soon!
Disclaimer: I am away from my computer […]

I’m away for Christmas, and somehow in the complicated rules of Draw Anyway, that means you get an extra link this week. Don’t ask me, I just work here.
Erm, so, what you see above is the work of Randy Plowman, an artist who has contracted with himself to make a small collage every day […]

Via Swiss Miss (again; she’s one of my main online sources of design inspiration) comes this incredible work, made by systematically cutting up old books. It just goes to show that you can make arresting artworks out of all sorts of materials, including those you’d find at car boot sales or charity shops. Find more […]

Apologies: it may be too late to pass this information on, but I think that I finally stumbled upon the perfect formula for making Christmas cards with two-year-and-eleven-month-olds. We’ve tried a variety of techniques over the past few weeks, and it’s been hard to strike a balance between the cards she had fun making, and […]

So, I picked up the toddler from nursery tonight and we were at home making paper chains just before bathtime, and my husband’s talking about the Christmas party at nursery tomorrow. “Do you want to wear your Santa outfit or your bee costume?’ he asks, innocently.
“No, Daddy! I want to wear a SNOWFLAKE costume”.
Uh. Right.
I’m […]

In a recent post, I expounded on one very good reason for drawing, but it occurs to me that I haven’t fully explored the many and varied reasons why people put pen to paper.
As with most things in life, I’d expect that most people who draw regularly have not just one clear reason, but a […]

On Friday, I mentioned that I’d visited some local Open Studios. As well as the sketchbooks, I was also overjoyed to find some talented ceramicists selling tiles, including seconds and odd bits and bobs. For a while now, I’ve been planning to tile one portion of our kitchen with non-matching tiles, inspired by a photo […]

Colleague and I slipped out of the office this lunch time to visit an Open Studio event. I was extremely surprised to find that a company whose products I’ve seen in all the glossy magazines is actually local to my home town of Brighton - and their studio was just down the road. Sukie make […]

This piece of paper fluttered out when I opened up my box of pastels to draw a quick sketch for Monday’s post on drawing with straight lines. It’s just a bit of tracing paper that’s there to prevent the lid of the box getting marked, I assume, but I really like the effect of all […]

It is a funny thing how you can be drawing something as famously curvy as a woman’s figure, and if you are using something like a flat pencil or a square chalk pastel (as I was for the picture above), you just cannot help but make straight lines. It’s an even stranger thing how somehow, […]