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

  • 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

  • Malvern Autumn Show

    by Alice Savery

    On Friday 23rd, Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September 2022, I'll be at the Malvern Autumn Show.

    While I am there I will be starting and working on a painting of some locally grown flowers. 

    It will be an A3 piece, on watercolour paper, drawn in pen and ink and coloured with watercolour. 

    I am doing this so people can see how I produce my work - and because I love seeing other artists at work when I'm visiting places!

    I have decided to create this piece as a raffle prize, and so for the price of £1 you can be in with a chance of winning the painting. 

    Posted in Malvern Show, Original drawings, Raffle painting

  • Logfire Holidays Gwenoldy

    by Alice Savery

    I have just had a really lovely weekend away at Logfire Holidays, Gwenoldy, near Mold in North Wales. 

    Back in February Nicola who owns Logfire Holidays ran a giveaway competition on her Instagram account to win a stay in their new addition - a shepherd hut... and I won! I decided to go with my cousin as it had been ages since we had enjoyed a good catch up and we had a fab time. 

    Posted in Chickens, Homemade quill pen, Outdoor sketching

  • Sketching outside with a HUGE piece of paper

    by Alice Savery

    As regular readers will know, I seem to have an interest in experimenting with working at a larger scale.

    Last week I took a big piece of paper out into the parkland near the studio and sketched using one of my homemade feather quills.

    Posted in Black ink, Brampton Bryan, Follow the whispers, Green Sketching, Homemade quill pen, Nature connection, Noticing Nature, Outdoor sketching, Sketching

  • Hip Hip Hooray! Bunting

    by Alice Savery

    Hip Hip Hooray! bunting can be hung up for any celebration! Perfect for birthdays, anniversaries, engagements, weddings, parties, passing exams or driving tests, having a baby, mortgage approval, new home - anything!

    The bunting is A6 in size and professionally printed on recycled card. It is hole punched and comes with thread ready for you to put together to suit the space you want to put it. It arrives in a labelled cardboard box, perfect for storage until the next celebration!

    Posted in birthday, celebration, hedgehog, party, wedding

  • Pigeons...

    by Alice Savery

    Look at all these pigeons I spotted in Barmouth yesterday. All on the railway bridge.

    We hadn't parked for long enough for me to sketch them there and then, and so today I drew four from the photographs I took instead.

    I started with black ink - mixing it with water for the initial layer. Later adding colour pencils, white dry pastel, silver ink and charcoal pencil as well as black and grey brush pens.

    Posted in Black ink, Drawing a Day, Follow the whispers, Sketchbook

  • Scarecrow Sunday Open Studios event!

    by Alice Savery

    Scarecrow Sunday is an annual event in the village of Brampton Bryan where my studio is based. You can read all about it on the village website here.

    Lots of people visit the village on that day and so we have decided to do our Summer Open Studios event on the same day too!

    Posted in Alice Draws The Line Studio, Brampton Bryan, Open Studio, Studio

  • Preserving Katie's wedding bouquet

    by Alice Savery
    I had thought about drawing wedding flowers for years. But sat on the idea, uncertain whether it was an idea that people would want. 
    And then, in 2021 I saw this photo of Katie showing her wilted wedding bouquet, which she had taken on honeymoon with them and it galvanised me into action!
    Posted in Botanical Illustration, illustrated wedding bouquet, Wedding, Wedding anniversary, wedding flowers

  • Flower studies: Sketching in the walled garden at Attingham Park

    by Alice Savery
    Last week I spent the day at Attingham Park (National Trust property, gardens and parkland) near Shrewsbury. Mainly in the Walled Garden which is looking amazing. 
    I've been planning on doing this for ages - visiting to draw the species in bloom at different times of year. Finally, I did it.
    Posted in Botanical Illustration, flower studies, walled garden

  • Sketching in a canoe

    by Alice Savery
    Last Friday it was my birthday! To celebrate we hired a canoe and went down the River Wye from Glasbury to Whitney. 
    We took lots of snacks, and the spaniel and it was a lovely stretch of river. The wind was with us so it was very easy going. So easy that I managed to fit in two quick sketches.
    Posted in Outdoor sketching