Last month I started a mini project in a tiny sketchbook of creating a little collage everyday. Here are days 8 to 14 of the project! During this week I began to explore adding more hand painted and printed papers to my collages such as in days 8, 12 and 14. I also enjoyed introducing …
Here is a selection of my recent life drawings! Recently I have enjoyed practicing drawing faces and trying to get a likeness from life rather than from reference photographs. This is pretty challenging and has various degrees of success! But I am enjoying the process. I have also experimented with using Conte Crayons, a medium …
Miniature collages in a tiny sketchbook- creative rituals to help show up to your practice everyday
A collection of Rachel Crawshaw’s life drawing sketches from January 2026 in pencil, colour pencil, watercolour pencil and ink
Recently I have been interested in exploring vessels in my art work. Here is a sneak peek into my sketchbook to see some of the ideas I have been playing with. I have a dedicated vessels sketchbook that I have been working in for a few months to collect ideas. Enjoy!
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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In October I got the opportunity to have a go at creating my very own pottery Pumpkin. I attended a pottery pumpkin making workshop with my mother in law at the Pendle Pottery studio in Barrowford. I am very pleased with the results especially as this is really my first proper go at pottery since …
I am very excited to be taking part in a collaborative art challenge with my fellow artists at the Thursday Art Club. Together we are filling a collaborative sketchbook. The process is that an artist (in this case me) starts the sketch book with a two page spread, the book is then passed on to …
I am very pleased to have a painting accepted for this years Bury Open 2025. The exhibition will run from 15 November 2025 to 21 February 2026 so there is plenty of opportunity to go and see all of the incredible works from local artists. In the last Bury Open they had over 400 high …
In a recent life drawing session at Hush life drawing in Clitheroe I tried something a bit different to my usual pencil sketches. In preparation for this session I made a rudimentary accordion sketchbook using mixed media paper. I then collaged the paper using pages from a vintage nurses dictionary. To help with drawing onto …
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