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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

On Wednesday I posted about prints made with old letterpress blocks (and I also have an uneasy feeling I’m blurring the distinction between letterpress and woodblock, so excuse me if that’s the case). It’s apt, then, that this week’s link should be to British Letterpress, a site with a Draw Anyway approach towards helping beginners […]

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 […]

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 […]

A couple of weeks ago, Draw Anyway featured a post by Darryl Cunningham about his inimitable style of drawing buildings. I’m delighted to say that I now present his second offering, this time on how to paint with acrylics. Darryl writes:

Here’s a large acrylic painting I did on canvas, which was purchased by an American […]

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 […]