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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 […]

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 […]

Computers have changed everything, and not least the old skills like letterpress printing, in which letters were carved onto wooden blocks and arranged by hand into words and sentences. Fortunately, the craft has not entirely died, since many printmakers and fine artists continue the tradition, seeing real beauty in non-uniform letters and shapes, and the […]

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 […]

Sparkle and Spin: A Book about Words. Written by Ann Rand, illustrated by Paul Rand
Apologies to readers of Swiss Miss and Drawn, of whom I know there are many reading this post. This news has already been posted on both those blogs, but it is just too good to ignore.
What you see embedded above, You-Tube […]