A word from Alice - studio stories from Alice Draws the Line
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Hands at work
Prompt: Hands at work I thought I might show you the behind the scenes prep from the other day for my #moderncalligraphy workshop at the studio. Yo... -
Best decision
Prompt: Best decision This first picture is of one of my sketchbooks that I kept at university - nothing to do with my degree as I studied Early Ch... -
Three things...
Prompt: Three things I chose this photograph which was my ‘inspiration station’ when Andrea came to do a photoshoot at the studio back in 2020. Thr... -
Planning
Prompt: Planning Although it's a sketchbook on my lap here, it's interchangeable with my notebook and diary. Between the three is how I plan.Often ... -
March Meet the Maker 2022 - Me and My Work
March Meet the Maker is a great challenge set up by Joanne Hawker. It is a month of Instagram prompts to help makers share about themselves and the... -
Brush Lettering for the Oriel Davies Gallery preparation work
Yesterday I delivered eight poems to the Oriel Davies Gallery in Newtown, that I had written out in Brush Lettering.
I thought it might be of interest to talk through my process from the start to this point of this project as there has been so much that I have learnt.
Kate Morgan-Clare at the gallery approached me to ask if this was a project that I would be interested in before Christmas. They wanted eight poems written out to honour and elevate them as a celebration of their creation. The poems had been written by participants that took part in creative writing workshops with Emma Beynon - a writer and creative facilitator and Oriel Davies. The workshops explored a sense of place and that is what the exhibition of these poems is called. It will be running from the 5th to the 26th February 2022.
In early January I visited Kate at the gallery to discuss the project fully and to look at the space.
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It started with a New Year's Resolution...
'It started with a New Year's resolution...'
Someone asked me how Alice Draws the Line began recently and this was my response. And it's true, in 2008 I made a New Year's resolution to do a drawing a day in a sketchbook. I missed a few days but I did it, a directly observed sketch for the year.
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Woodland walks
When I'm out, I have squirrel-like eyes that constantly search for treasures. Natural treasures - wind-blown or knocked down and ready to be collected. I try not to pick anything unless there really is a plentiful supply - the grasses I studies last summer for example - there were so many of each sort that I was happy to take one of each back to the studio to draw. Usually though it's fallen treasure - which somehow makes it more exciting. These were some wind-blown bits of larch I found a couple of weeks back - a perfect little posy in my eyes! They came back with me and I drew them that afternoon. -
March Meet the Maker - part 4
I've been really enjoying working through these prompts - it's a nice exercise to encourage reflection and time to ponder what each one means to me.
So this week I'm covering the following prompts -
- Silver Linings
- Hands on
- Job/s
- Wrapped and packaged
- Starting point
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March Meet the Maker - part 3
- From the archives
Just recently I've had a lovely time looking back through old sketchbooks. Here are some pages from the sketchbook I used during my Art Foundation year (2001-2002). Line drawings and black ink were a favourite back then too, but at the time I was doing more mixed media illustration and was working towards a large textile piece with all the lines drawn with a sewing machine (freehand embroidery).
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March meet the maker - part 2
Hello! The second March meet the maker blog post. Today I'm going to cover the posts that have happened since I was last here as I haven't been posting on Instagram this year.
So, we have 5 prompts today -
- Newest make
- Work in progress
- Learning curve
- Small detail
- Portrait.
Here we go!
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March meet the maker, part 1
#MarchMeetTheMaker is an excellent project set up by Joanne Hawker, a creative who lives in Somerset. Each March she shares prompts for fellow make...
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