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

  • Spring things

    by Alice Savery
    This time of year is so exciting. I love spotting signs of spring developing and here are some images from my camera roll this week.
    Posted in Nature connection, Noticing Nature, Signs of Spring, Spring

  • Snowdrops - 2023 version

    by Alice Savery

    It's not really a surprise that I have, once again been excited by the snowdrops this year. 

    I've drawn them before - yes. Many, many times. But that doesn't take anything away from them. I still like drawing them. I like looking at them, working out their structure and shapes and colours (yes green and white but the colours and shades within those colours too!).

    Posted in Botanical Illustration, cut flowers, January, Snowdrops

  • See us Hear us

    by Alice Savery
    I've recently had the pleasure of being involved with the 'See us hear us' project, funded by Historic England and Leominster Roars . This is a project of 'words, poetry and photography of what we love about Leominster'.
    It was brilliantly carried out by Toni Cook who interviewed people, Martha Grubb who captured people's portraits and poetry by Laura Ding-Edwards . My role was to write out some of the quotes using large scale brush lettering 🖌😍✍
    The exhibition is now up in Leominster Library and it is there until the 3rd March.
    A lovely project to be part of.

  • 2022- year in review

    by Alice Savery

    Happy New Year!

    I started this on New Year’s eve - by flicking back through my Instagram account and scribbling down some things that stood out from 2022. 

    I realise I’ve actually blogged about many of them so I won’t go into lots of detail, so this is more of a list of nice things that 2022 entailed. I have done this partly as a reminder of the things I loved so that I make sure I plan them in to 2023.

  • 2023 Wall Calendar

    by Alice Savery
    A chat through the design of my 2023 Wall Calendar

  • Christmas Open Studios - save the date!

    by Alice Savery

    Just a quick one to say ‘save the date!’

    Our Christmas Open Studios trail will be on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th December 2022 from 10am-3pm.

    Aardvark books will be holding their Christmas Fair on the Sunday too so well worth coming to visit the village!

    There are many artists in the village of Brampton Bryan, but most work quietly behind closed doors. This is an opportunity to visit the studios and do a bit of Christmas shopping. We’ll be making some flyers soon to tell you all about those involved. 

    Posted in Alice Draws The Line Studio, Christmas, Open Studio

  • Wedding fair

    by Alice Savery

    Hello again! 

    On Saturday I went to a wedding fair held at Ludlow Racecourse. I’d only ever been to one wedding fair before and so I was looking forward to attending and meeting others that were exhibiting.

    I took a selection of wedding stationery examples and cards to demonstrate my illustration style. I also had some of the placecard designs that I’ve done in the past. 

    It was lovely to meet people planning the weddings - those who were just gathering ideas with nothing planned yet, through to those that were just sorting the final details. 

    Posted in Diary post, wedding

  • Morning blog post

    by Alice Savery

    Today I’m having a day at the studio, preparing for the wedding fair tomorrow.

     

    I plan to take card designs that could be customised for weddings, my folder of previous wedding stationery I’ve created, some illustrated wedding flowers and then some pens, ink and watercolour so I can do some lettering illustrations while I’m there.

    Posted in Diary post

  • In the early days - dear diary

    by Alice Savery

    In the early days of Alice Draws the Line, I would get up, sit at my little desk in the sitting room with a big mug of tea (earl grey usually) and write a blog post. First thing, still in my pyjamas. It started the day off well, made me feel intentional about developing my little business. A positive boost before I did anything else.

    I can’t work out if it is just something I did occasionally or very regularly, or quite how often. What I do remember is that I liked doing it.

    Posted in About Alice, Diary post

  • A perfect new baby gift...

    by Alice Savery
    New baby in the family? a birth to celebrate? These name prints make a lovely gift to welcome a new person into a family and to put on the nursery wall. Or, maybe you'd like to celebrate a new name - a wedding present perhaps, or a gift for a Forest School leader!
    Posted in birth gift, name print, new baby, wedding present, woodland alphabet, Woodlands

  • A rainy Vitamin Tree adventure

    by Alice Savery
    It was a really rainy outing this one! I met my friend Kath for a catch up and we went first to Park Wood at Hergest Croft and then back up through the gardens to the tea room. But actually, sheltered under an Oak tree it was lovely to sit with a coffee and a biscuit or two. This is my enamel bug mug design which you can find in the shop here.
    Posted in Green Sketching, Outdoor sketching, Sketchbook, Vitamin Tree

  • My Raffle Painting

    by Alice Savery
    As you might be aware, I attended Malvern Autumn Show at the end of September. I thought it might be nice to be drawing while there and to sell raffle tickets so someone could win the final picture (more about this in my previous blog post). 
    I thought I'd write this follow up post to show how the painting turned out. Here you can see the painting part way through, with the winning raffle ticket and the final piece!
    Posted in illustrated wedding bouquet, Malvern Show, Sunflowers, wedding flowers