The Design Museum does an excellent twitter activity every Monday at lunchtime (UK lunchtime obvs!) where they set you a drawing challenge to complete on your lunch break. Normally it’s things like ‘draw your lunch,’ ‘draw a postbox,”draw the jewelry you’re wearing,’ you know, reasonably normal things to draw. This was one of their recent […]
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This week’s #Sketchbreak challenge was to draw your lunch. It was made slightly more difficult by the fact that I was starving, and my darling desk mate was eyeing up my lunch like a vulture waiting for a gazelle to die in the African wilds. Here’s my take on a sushi lunch, drawn in marker […]
A few friends and I went off to the countryside for the weekend to dress up like a shooting themed episode of Downton Abbey, go on long walks, and drink in cozy pubs. It was a success. Here’s what we got up to, in watercolour and then watercolour and ink sketches. Salisbury Cathedral: The old […]
I just got back from a VERY enjoyable weekend in Salisbury. I’ll post a full description of it very soon, but in the meantime, here are a couple of preview sketches of what I saw. The fireplace in my new favourite pub ever, The Haunch of Venison: View of Salisbury Cathedral from across the River […]
Today’s @DesignMuseum #SketchBreak was a real challenge. The task? Draw a phone box – from memory. This is extra hard for us half-breed British people. Here’s what they actually look like: Here’s what I came up with- First I put down a layer of red watercolour- some were a bit more uniform than others: Then, […]
The Design Museum do a neat thing on Mondays- a lunchtime sketch break! Around noon they (or their guest ‘host’ for the day) post a sketch challenge that you can do in your lunch break, and then post the results using the hash tag #SketchBreak Today’s challenge was as follows: Here’s what I submitted- a […]
Woke up this morning and went swimming for the first time in ages (therapist’s orders!) It felt great, after nearly 5 months of being sidelined with the ol foot injury, to be able to exercise again, and to do so in a way which felt fairly weightless. It’s left me in a bit of a […]
Following on from the post about submissions to the Londonist’s call for ‘Tube Etchings’ ( more info here ) and a suggestion that I do more quick sketches, I thought I’d try a couple new tube themed water colour sketches. I decided I’d base them on this picture, which is one of my favourites. It’s […]
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