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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 […]

Helena at Little Sketches tagged me in a meme. Thanks Helena! It’s quite exciting because I don’t think I’ve ever participated in an art meme before - and yet, they are perfect Draw Anyway fodder, being a source of inspiration and a motivation to complete a drawing, all in one. The trickle-down effect also means […]

Linzie Hunter, whose innovative Spam Art I mentioned in a previous post has contacted me to say that her images are now available to buy as prints - so if you are looking for that elusive Christmas present for your colleague, boss or friendly neighbourhood spammer, your prayers may have been answered. They’re available here. […]

Bingo McDingo is another keen Draw Anyway reader who answered my recent plea for guest posts - and he did it in style, with a video post! Now, you might think you know everything about potato printing. You learned it in primary school, didn’t you? But I bet you can learn a few new […]

The way I see it, there are two broad ways of approaching collage: you can use unidentifiable coloured bits of paper to make up your image, or you can use figures, shapes and objects from photographs, rearranged to make a new picture. The former might be more pleasing, ultimately, but the latter is quick, quick, […]

 
 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 […]

 
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 […]

I’m delighted to bring you Draw Anyway’s first ever competition. Up for grabs is The Art Doodle book, a sketch pad with a difference.
When I was at school, my art teacher used to rail earnestly against the current trend for ‘colour by numbers’ kits - the kind where each segment of the image was numbered, […]

Painting on newspaper is something you can happily do with kids. It’s cheap and disposable, and if you line the entire floor with it, they can’t go off the edges and onto the carpet.
But there’s a little more to it too, for the Draw Anyway artist (isn’t there always?).
Number 1, that disposability allows you to […]