When I first started trying to learn anatomy I found it really difficult. I knew it would really improve my drawing but I wasn’t sure exactly how. I was (and still am) finding it so hard; I decided to analyse why I am trying to learn and what it will do for my drawing. My… Read more »
Wow, these drawings, it has to be seen to be believed. I have rarely seen such amazing drawings outside of books and museums; to see them live and with a contemporary sensibility is incredible. To be taught by and with those same people, the artists who made those drawings, is truly a privilege. I was… Read more »
I’m off to do a summer school in traditional drawing and painting techniques with the London Atelier of Representational Art (LARA). I’ve told a few people and have had some surprising reactions. It’s been a good prompt to examine my thoughts, ideas and motivations prior to what will, I am sure, be an interesting and… Read more »
I’ve had an on again, off again kind of relationship with my sketchbooks over the years. I’ve always loved drawing but my sketchbooks were at best sporadic, even in college when a sketchbook was required. I always enjoy looking at the sketchbooks of other artists but for me it always came back to ‘should’, eventually… Read more »
