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A word from Alice - studio stories from Alice Draws the Line

  • Doing the things I like to do

    by Alice Savery
    I recently read how few weeks there are until the end of the year, and how it’s a good idea to make a plan if there are things you want to get done in a set time frame. So I thought about what I’d like to do between now and Christmas and I made a list!

    I thought about what I want to do each week and I wrote out a list. Having it on a piece of paper on my desk is helping me to actually do the things! 
    Posted in Artist’s Date, Sketchbook

  • Under the oak

    by Alice Savery
    This Oak tree made an amazing base to sit at, lean against, and look out through the branches. I really like looking out through a canopy, and especially if there is light behind, playing on the leaves. 
    Posted in Green Sketching, Outdoor sketching, Sketchbook, Sketching The Seasons, Vitamin Tree

  • Holiday cottage views

    by Alice Savery
    Our holiday cottage had decking in the garden with a lovely big table where you could take in the views and plenty of space for a sketchbook!
    This was a graphite sketch during the golden hour on one of the first evenings.
    Posted in Green Sketching, Outdoor sketching, Sketchbook, Sketching

  • Beach days

    by Alice Savery

    I challenged myself to do some speedy surfer sketches! There was a surf school and they were going through the different poses needed for surfing. 

    They didn’t stay still for any length of time and so working quickly was essential!

    Posted in Beach, People sketches, Surfing

  • A few days in Pembrokeshire

    by Alice Savery
    Back in August (2023) I had a lovely few days in Pembrokeshire. I thought I’d share some of the sketches that I did there. 
    This was one evening. The others decided to have an evening walk along the headland. I couldn’t resist the lure of the picnic bench and view to set up my watercolour pad and paint the view while they were stretching their legs. 
    Posted in Beach, Green Sketching, Seaside

  • Original Cut Flower pieces for Herefordshire Art Week

    by Alice Savery
    I thought I’d keep a record of the work that I put together for Herefordshire Art Week 2023 that was exhibited at Aardvark Books in Brampton Bryan. This is a series of my ‘cut flower’ pieces - with the species being individually painted by hand (drawn in ink and then coloured with watercolour) and then cut out, ever so slowly and carefully, using a scalpel.  
    Posted in Alice Draws The Line, Botanical Illustration, cut flowers, flower studies, Original drawings, Sunflowers, The Cut Flower Studio

  • Back to Borth beach

    by Alice Savery

    This extract hopefully shows some of the brush marks I was working with. The sky was amazing - blue but with streaks of white wispy clouds. Hard to achieve with watercolour without white or masking fluid, and so I added just the blue for the sky and left out spaces for the white clouds. 

    I was also working with a partially dry brush to try and create the white horses at the shoreline - I started to want to really play with this and develop it - but prolifically filling pages and stopping them blow away in the middle of a birthday picnic didn’t feel the right thing to do!

    Posted in Beach, Borth, Outdoor sketching, Sketchbook, Sketching

  • The Hellebores

    by Alice Savery
    I did three studies, three separate stems, and cut each of these out. Here they are in the garden - it was useful to look at them in pure natural light against other ones, to check my colours and scale. 
    Posted in cut flowers, Hellebore, The Cut Flower Studio

  • Brush lettering commission

    by Alice Savery

    I had the pleasure of creating a really enjoyable piece of brush lettering recently. A customer approached me with some words that they wanted written out to sit alongside two other artworks on a wall in their home. 

    They bought the other artworks to the studio so we could look at the pieces and the colours used and to work out how this piece - a poem, could sit with them. 

    We decided to pick out a blue and the grey that had been used in the other pieces and I mixed the colours throughout all the lettering.

    The piece related to the seaside and so these colours worked really well. Here are some extracts from it. 

    Posted in Brush Lettering, Commission

  • Spring seasonal studies

    by Alice Savery
    I had a panicked thought -that I hadn't done any seasonal sketches recently. I had sketched a view and day to day items, things in the house, pot plants and still life type compositions and not my favourites - things growing at this time of year.
    And then I looked through my camera roll and on my iPad. Here are 5 studies I have done recently.
    Posted in Signs of Spring, Sketching The Seasons

  • Chickens Galore!

    by Alice Savery

    Do you remember I had a lovely weekend away at Logfire Holidays last year? and that while there I drew and drew and drew their chickens?!

    Well, they have made an appearance in the greeting card range! Here they are!

    Perfect for Easter or for any time! You can buy them here.

    Posted in Chickens, greeting card

  • A Robin for company

    by Alice Savery

    At the start of the year I met up with my friend Kath (The Walking Sketchbook) to sketch outdoors. We had the brilliant idea to put another date in the diary to make sure we made it a regular thing. 

    This week we met up again. I was lucky enough to meet Kath’s Robin - a beautiful feathered friend that regularly comes to find her when she is out locally. The Robin likes to sit near Kath when she creates and this time the Robin came to see what I was up to too!

    Posted in Green Sketching, Outdoor sketching, Robin, Sketchbook