A collection of life drawings of model Sophie in conte crayon and charcoal on sugar paper. Gestural figurative drawings and portraits by artist Rachel Crawshaw from @mushroommoondesigns
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Life drawings
A collection of life drawings from Rachel Crawshaw at mushroommoondesigns.com
Tulips, vase and blackbird
In a previous post I shared with you a vase of flowers I’d captured in my sketchbook using colour pencils. Tulips sketch by Rachel Crawshaw I have since translated that drawing into a painting in acrylics, and on to it I have added the symbol of a blackbird. Receive joy by Rachel Crawshaw In the …
Life drawing
A collection of Rachel Crawshaw’s life drawing sketches from January 2026 in pencil, colour pencil, watercolour pencil and ink
A Collaborative Magical Mushroom Adventure!
One of the things I have really enjoyed this year is creating collaborative art works. During a recent Thursday Art Club session we had a fantastic time creating these fabulously fungal collaborative drawings! The idea for the session came from a video I had seen on Instagram a while ago by Jenny Muncaster which you …
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Red and blue life drawing studies
Over the past few weeks in my life drawing groups at Hush Art Group in Clitheroe and Life Drawing Blackburn I have been experimenting with layering figures on top of each other and using negative space to create these graphic images- the drawings can be turned in different directions and as you look different figures …
There’s something fishy going on around here…
This morning we had a visit from a lovely nurse from the community nurse team donning her PPE. She is the first person who has been in our house (apart from us obviously) for over two months now! Unfortunately for Joseph it wasn't a social call, she was here to do his annual review blood …
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What I’ve been up to PART 3 – other work.
Here are some pictures I have been working on in my own time at home. I have really been trying to be more accurate with my drawing and have used a lot of pencil and pencil crayons, a medium which I always shied away from before. The coloured pencil pictures take around 4-6 hours to …
What I’ve been up to PART 2: Blackburn Artists society
Over the past few months I have been attending the Blackburn Artists society on Thursday Evenings. Each week we are given a "theme" to work with from chickens to sky scrapers and we've recently been out on location drawing the amateur dramatics society during a live dress rehearsal! I've really loved attending Blackburn artists society …
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What I’ve been up to PART 1: Urban Sketching
Over the past few months things have been very quiet on the blog, so thought I'd do a series of posts updating what I have been doing behind the scenes. I have been focusing on improving my drawing skills over the past few months and have been attending the "Ribble Valley Urban sketchers" and "Blackburn …
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