1. Take a virtual tour or visit a gallery online Take a virtual tour or visit a gallery online catalogue. The National Gallery Natural History Museum Guggenheim Museum British Museum Musee d’Orsay Rijksmuseum Van Gogh Museum Picasso Museum MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) Louvre Museum 2. Drawing and Painting student's continuation project. Choose a book title (you could visit West Sussex e-library catalogue) look at the blurb and the cover. How could you design a new cover for th

#March meet the maker; set up by @joannehawker in 2016, this is a yearly event on Instagram. Follow the hashtag (*see below) to see loads of

The 20:20 print exchange (via Hot Bed Press) was established in 2009, to exchange work from various printmakers in one studio. Studios all over the UK (and the rest of the world) now recruit multiples of 10 printmakers to take part. Each printmaker produces an edition of 25 prints, 20x20cm in any print medium. Each printmaker’s edition is distributed between the 10 ‘Home’ studio participants and 10 others studio printmakers. 4 prints go the studios and the last 1 goes on tour

I’ve been writing a series of blogs this year about using your sketchbook en plein air. The first post I talked about fostering a sketching regime – sketching on a regular basis to develop your observational skills. In the last post I talked about my sketching equipment and ran through some personal choices for good mark making on the go. Through these blogs I have used the lovely Seawhite concertina sketchbooks. They have been around for a while, but this year was the first

More about sketching on holiday and the equipment I use. My last post I gave you a little overview of sketching and developing a sketching routine. This post I’d like to tell you about our recent 5 day break to the Isle of Wight (https://www.visitisleofwight.co.uk/), which is very close to us and great for a short break and a bit of sketching. I decided to use a concertina sketchbook I’d bought from Seawhites’ (I like to pop into their factory shop, but you can buy online fro

As you may know I have been running Life Drawing workshops in West Worthing. This originally came about after students on a couple of my Drawing and Painting courses had wanted to try life drawing in class. After a couple of 2 hour sessions here and there, and at times a logistical nightmare with the local Adult Education provider. I then tired running a day workshop myself, privately for students. This was a great success and it developed from there. I still only run worksho

I thought I’d write this post, as I know a lot of my students always intend to sketch while they are on holiday. But as most of us know our sketchbook, pencils and ‘travel’ paints just stay in our case! Over the past few years I have made a point of sketching every day (almost) of my holidays. Over the summer (during my break from teaching) I challenge myself to sketch every day, no matter what. The first few days (sometimes weeks) are terrible, but once I get into it I start

Well my New year’s resolution – write a blog post each month - hasn’t gone well……this is my first post of the year…..sorry