quietly creating
Barbara Wanhill
Category: drawing
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In December, I took a break from all things botanical and spent some of my spare time participating in #abstractadvent, an annual art challenge developed and hosted by art pedagogy. This was my third year participating and I found it more difficult than previous years. I began to create visual narratives each day and my…
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In half an hour I will have gained an hour. This is a blessing. Because I have wasted so many hours in the hours that were September, October and now November. Between the faltering, there have been hours of extreme busyness. With work mostly, but also getting the garden ready for winter. The sketchbook has…
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A document of summer mark-making progress. Take away: it was very satisfying seeing these pages develop. Unexpected and somewhat joy-filled. How about that! The parameters for summer drawing were: pen, no pencil pre-plannning, botanical and from life, not photos. I began with a Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Fineliner 0.1 at the beginning of July, but then…