Frog

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
When is the last time you looked at a frog for 30 minutes? Have you ever? One of the wonderful things about drawing is I just spent 30 minutes looking at a frog! I always knew they were awesome but I haven't admired one that carefully since I was 10! And I had forgotten how awesome they are.
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Day 400 and 30,000 views! Butterflies

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it. Today is day 400 and amazingly also the day this blog reached 30,000 views, coincidence.

I have done lots of kids art today, art with my daughter and her friends. My day was: park, art, Lego, pizza, art, Tax return!

I squeezed this in (with my daughter's felt tips) while looking after three big girls and the baby. :)

I have a blog where I share my children's art ideas if you are interested:
http://artistmummy.blogspot.co.uk

Peacock feathers

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is peacock feathers. #drawingadayclub

Blue grey water

Today I paddled in the place where blue meets grey, and skimmed stones across to gold! #drawingadayclub

Tree

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a tree. I have been designing textiles again today, with every spare minute, and was completely without inspiration, but my brother said "do a tree" and I find I quite like it.
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If you want to see textiles: http://enchantedtextiledesign.blogspot.co.uk

Poppy

I'm creating a drawing a, just for the art of it.
Today's is a poppy. I've done two textile designs today and felt I'd had enough of painting but I got into this once I started. So often the case. #drawingadayclub

Taking the studio to bits and putting your socks in the bin!

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is several 20 second sketches of my son, taking my studio to bits and getting his socks off so he could bin them! He has also grabbed the pencil a few times and added to my drawing. #drawingadayclub

Rose

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a rose. #drawingadayclub

Dove

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
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Fox

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a fox. #drawingadayclub

Andrew plays guitar

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is my brother playing guitar. I organise an artists meet up once a month (Cafe Creative) we get together in the arts centre cafe and help each other and drink coffee! My big brother brought his guitar and a friend of mine sings and they started improvising and it went from the sort of meeting where people talk about art and set goals to the sort where they make art! Then they decided to make music together which neither has done in a while! It was a good moment.

My hashtag is also getting used, and I'm loving the varied art I see. Personally I have just finished my Mimi collection for my design house, so it feels like I'm getting somewhere and helping others too! #drawingadayclub

Great ocean road

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is the great ocean road, Victoria, Australia.
I've drawn a lot of beautiful places I've been but this one is on my wish list. I've been to Melbourne and Sydney but didn't have time to do this. Where is on your wish list and why? #drawingadayclub

Whale shark

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a whale shark. #drawingadayclub

Dylan

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is my smiley son Dylan. #drawingadayclub

Wave

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a wave. As a kid I was mesmerised by the waves in Asterix and Obelix, then as a young woman I found Hakusai prints on a gallery in Munich and stood transfixed so long they began to wonder if I was researching for a heist! Four years living on the coast did not satisfy my fascination with each and every breaker! #drawingadayclub

Tim

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is my husband Tim. When we were first going out one of my friends nicknamed him my "sexy librarian", he's not a librarian but he is an accademic and it fits quite well! He also never takes anything very seriously, which is just what you need around you if you plan on surviving life!

Jasmine

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is my beautiful daughter Jasmine from life.
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Winter woods

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is winter woods with the sunlight. #drawingadayclub

Day 379 Repeated poppies

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a repeating design of poppies. There is a lot of computer technology and heavy machinery goes into the design and manufacture of printed textiles these days but it all does a faster neater version of what I did here by hand.

Film showing how I did it: https://youtu.be/fl6bRoZNx3E

Confession of a cheating scoundrel!

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.

I started on the 16th of January 2016 after seeing Dominic Roberts doing it and filled some days backwards to get the year full. I had no idea why I was doing it beyond it sounded fun.
Now I have very clear ideas what it does. It helps me by teaching me dicapline and practice and I get some creative time each day which keeps the rubbish out of my head a bit. For my friends, it shares a bit of beauty and some of my ideas, it's communication.

Sometimes I put a filter on a pic that makes it look better, sometimes I miss one and do it the next day, sometimes I use other art I was doing anyway but yesterday was the first time I really cheated! I found a drawing form 2016 I had never shared and as I was sick but didn't want to draw twice I shared it! There, I'm clean now!

Here is the drawing I owe from yesterday.

Lady

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a lady. #drawingadayclub

Four sea birds

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
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Today's is a group of four gulls on a cliff face, three adults and a chick.

Water lilies

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is water lilies. #drawingadayclub

Mermaid from the undersea picture my daughter and I drew together.

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.

My daughter and I like to draw together, we get a huge piece of paper and draw a line down the middle, then we decide on a common theme and each do half.

Pinching my daughter's art materials again!

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a flower done with Windsor and Newton water colour markers (that my daughter got for Christmas) and a bit of white acrylic. It's not at all British to say this but I'm really pleased with this one, although as a textile designer I'm right in my comfort zone with flowers. #drawingadayclub

Royal Observatory Greenwich

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.

Today's is the Royal Observatory Greenwich, part of my husband's birthday present (I did the drawing yesterday but had to keep it secret). The present is a birthday map of a day out in London, including red envelopes containing all the funds needed. #drawingadayclub

Swan

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a swan. #drawingadayclub

Bird

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a bird of prey.
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Terrible experiment!

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.

Today's was supposed to be a delicate Pegasus with mixed water soluble pencils and charcoal. It's a muddy mess and the original is worse than the photo! However I have decided to share it anyway to show not all experiments pay off, my dad has a wonderful expression for this; "Get it right in the next one." It immediately takes the attention off over worrying about what went wrong and starts to put your future art in the universe too.

Unicorn

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.

Today's is a unicorn done with my daughter's felt tips!
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Butterfly

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
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Today's is a butterfly. I have been designing furnishing fabric for the last two hours which I have to keep secret untill it's sold and manufactured - it's very nice for me to share the drawing of the day with my friends and have a two way communication!

If you want to see some textile design that is not secret you can see it here:
http://enchantedtextiledesign.blogspot.co.uk

Also I have included a picture of me wearing one of my fabrics.

Ice-skating girl

I'm creating a drawing a day, for two years (yeah! It's official, I'm going to do it again) just for the art of it.

Some of my lovely artist friends have decided to do it too (some every day, some once a month) and you can search on Facebook for #drawingadayclub to see their varied and interesting works of art.

Today's drawing is a girl ice-skating. My daughter Jasmine of course.