Out & About (Patreon)

I take a sketch book everywhere I go and always begin a weekend-off with great intentions, but without the (joyful!) pressure of a posing person to draw I struggle to find my focus. Baffled by the immense possibility of the landscape as a subject, more often than not I return from a long drawing-walk with a meagre handful of sketches that come to very little. After a week with Lance, powerhouse of plein-air sketching, visiting here in Wales I thought it was an ideal time to revisit some of his excellent blog posts from last summer to inspire you to get out and about with a sketchbook.

Main image: River Taw, Evening by Hester Berry, (46 x 61 cm), oil on board - you can watch our interview with Hester here. 

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An Introduction to Landscape drawing

If you haven't drawn much in the landscape, this blog post from early summer 2020 will give you a few bite-sized ideas for  getting started. Read the full blog HERE >> 

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Outdoor drawing

If the introduction has whet your appetite or you're looking for more focused suggestions, here is Lance's 2020 summer series of articles on drawing outdoors to take a look through:

• Read Outdoor Drawing 1: Green Spaces HERE 
• Read Outdoor Drawing 2: Urban Spaces HERE 
• Read Outdoor Drawing 3: Open Spaces  HERE 

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Bad weather?

Not the weather for drawing outdoors? Take a look back at Lance's lockdown classic Working from Your Window HERE, or make the most of it with this blog on recording weather and time on your work HERE. 

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Take a look at the Draw Navigator for more exercises, ideas and instruction HERE!

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N.B. The 'Setting up a home studio on any budgets' blog, planned for today, has been delayed by circumstances beyond our control and will be released next Monday.