Week 3 of Gardens and Greenhouses lead me into the Japanese Gardens at Regents Park for a second attempt at the space. Last year when I was here, I ended up …

Sitting alongside the water with my gouache in Serpentine Park, this week I found it really difficult to take a more imaginative path when drawing. Using a combination of passersby to …

Fired up for a new term, the next 10 weeks will now consist of Gardens and Greenhouses (yes, again haha), the Wednesday Core Day, World Imagery and a lot more …

My final week of term was off to a great start in The National Gallery, and I chose to spend the day in the Rubens room studying from …

Sneaking around The National Gallery with my Sennelier oil pastels (again) was a bit intense this week, but I managed to study …

Unfortunately, this week began with an end of term virus so I couldn’t make it in for Drawing a Head or The National Gallery. Starting on Wednesday which was …

After last week’s success in “Drawing a Head”, I knew it was going to be difficult to beat my previous gouache pieces but nevertheless, I tried …

Drawing a Head provided some great breakthroughs this week with the help of Sharon Brindle, who helped me get my scale right and encouraged me to stick with very limited colour …

This week you’ve gotta fogive me for the Jaws pun (watched it over the weekend), but it certainly sets the tone for the paintings I completed in “Drawing a Head”. Before I go into those …

This week’s “Drawing a Head” was a day of intense observation and our task was to slowly render a face with a biro (oh no) starting from the nose out. Biro is a medium I have a natural disdain towards, but …

In this weeks “Drawing a Head” class I spent the morning warming up with charcoal and then the afternoon with my beloved gouache. Once again building what …

This week began with the luxury of having two models in “Drawing a Head”, and the session started off with a quick succession of …

After a long (perhaps a bit too long) break, my first class back on The Drawing Year was "Drawing a Head". Our first session was led by tutor Marcus Cornish, and he started off with a breakdown of the skull and how the structure of the bones has a dramatic effect on how …

The last two weeks have been rather up and down in regards to my drawing, so I decided to take some highlights and combine the last two weeks into this one blog post ..

Attempting to sketch with coloured pencils while holding onto an umbrella in stormy winds was my Monday this week. The weather certainly wasn’t on our side, and …

After dressing fairly light for what was meant to be a warm day, I spent the morning slowly freezing as I completed a couple of gouache pieces in Brockwell Park ..

I’ll start this week with probably the longest format I’ve worked in so far; a tall, scroll-like format I was encouraged to use this week in Enduring Images …

My week began with a “sensory” journey up Primrose hill where we all completed a series of 5 minute drawings attempting to draw from the “sensation of place”, rather than simply completing a load of …

Standing atop the waterfall installation at the Japanese Garden Island in Regents Park, I watched a squirrel slip past me …

My week began drawing in Wilmington Square, a short walk from Angel station and we had the option to either stay put or explore the surrounding area. I set off to see what the streets had to offer, but found it extremely difficult …