There is a long tradition in the visual arts of those learning their way up to study and copy from the masters. There is plenty to be said for this approach, the idea being to follow the visual thought process and decisions of someone who has mastered drawing or painting, to absorb some of their […]

Like many of my artistic exercises, this one too started with a spur of the moment decision within a conversation. It’s true this conversation was more of an exchange within online comments, but that still counts. That’s how I found myself drawing the first little portrait in pencil, in a fairly thin-papered small sketch pad, […]

The pen drawings tag on my personal blog has a range of old experiments in sketching and drawing with pens. The purpose through the years has been to boost my confidence in drawing, to simply have the courage to put down the lines without worrying too long about getting it right. My urge to draw, […]