Creative Warm up exercise
I really enjoyed this exercise, suggested by artist Angela Fehr as part of this year's Sketchbook Revival event. The idea is simply to...
Palm Sunday
Today the Sanctuary cafe celebrated its fourteenth birthday with an Easter theme. Children made paper donkeys and palm leaves, based on...
Craft stall
Today the Friends of Lymm library met up to look at what we have made for our next craft stall, and to agree on a pricing strategy. This...
Neurographica
Neurogaphica was developed by a Russian psychologist, artist, and architect, Dr. Pavel Piscarev in 2014. It invites us to draw freeform...
Sketchnoting
Emily Mills has been a professional sketchnoter since 2017. I watched a video today where she explained how to combine notes with...
Hyacinths
These sweet smelling flowers are in full bloom in my garden now. I sketched this one in pen and ink with a single line, and used three...
Little purple pansy
This little pansy was almost hidden, in a garden. I drew it with watercolour crayons and felt pens. Here is the same flower, painted wet...
Along the towpath
Walking beside the Bridgewater Canal, I spotted these beautiful flowers.Aubretia (bottom photo) is named (by botanist Michel Adanson)...
Mixed media
The aim of the Sketchbook Revival workshops is to inspire, energise and revive - and this tecnique certainly does all that for me. The...
Lymm Rocks
Eight of us met in the Sanctuary hub today, to put a fresh coat of paint on the pebbles we are painting in white and Royal purple for...