Tag: botanical drawing

  • Step away from the news and make something. Make something with your mind and your hands and your heart and let that be enough to keep a small spark of hope going.

  • 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…

  • 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…