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If I worked for Clinton’s Cards I might wish you all a Happy Nude Year. Fortunately for Clinton’s and me, that is not the case, although the sentiment is sincerely felt. I genuinely hope that we all have a year to […]

As I wistfully pack away the pullovers and wet wear from my summer wardrobe, my mind turns to the exciting prospects that Autumn brings us. Yes mists, yes mellow fruitfulness but more the intense sense of purpose that comes from idling […]

Capitoline Hercules,  4th century BC – photo by Mary Harrsch When we do events for organisations we are sometimes asked for a draped model, the organisers fear that some member of their group will be offended. We always prefer working from […]

Still Life with Red – Clare Haward When we are learning to draw and paint, (do we ever stop?) there are the basics that we all have to get under our belts. Like a writer, it’s hard to communicate without […]

One of the things I picked up when learning about how to cope with life is that a problem can be solved head on, obliquely or sidestepped. We all have our favoured way of tackling things. Those of us who favour the […]

Just three minutes for this one We are sometimes lucky enough to get beginners in the studio. If it happens to be a three hour session with a single pose, one of the things they learn is that three hours […]

Right in so many ways, yet the proportions to some eyes may be questionable. Artist Colette Clegg We all know when a drawing looks wrong. In a portrait it is usually something about the mouth and in a figure the head […]

Claude Monet – Poplars on the Epte. Trees and clouds or the visual experience of trees and clouds? How to look As visual artists, we do a lot of looking. This is because our excitement and engagement with what we […]

Ashley by Daisy Perkins. Nice. The old cliché that ‘the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results’, has been doing the rounds again recently. Like many thoughts we return to, it has […]

Flicking through the fly blown organs that nowadays constitute the news, I read about how most people, most of the time, just want to fit in. They want to make sure that largely they do what others do, possibly with […]