I didn’t make my long suffering art students draw without looking this week – I took in a series of objects for them to draw and tried to get to to look, really look hard, before committing to paper. We were also looking at measured drawing, which means that holding your pencil at arm’s length continue reading »
I used to think that being an author was very glamorous, involving signing books for a queue of adoring fans. For most of us, of course, it’s not quite like that. You can forget the queues of adoring fans, for a start. If you’re very lucky, you look up from reading this month’s Practical Boat continue reading »
On the drawing board at the moment is painting of Francis Drake’s Golden Hind and the beginnings of a map of the world showing Drake’s round the world mission as official pirate and Spanish loot-stealer. This is where I need some help from younger readers; I’ve started to write (and draw) a book about true continue reading »