Happy New Year, Carl! I wish you a creative and productive year!✨ Live streams and meetings are such a great way to connect! Unfortunately, due to my day job and uni I rarely attend those, but I hope to join a couple when possible!
Nice memories of art with grandkids… first letting them draw in my sketchbooks and later a whole exhibit at a local coffee shop of art that my grandsons and I did together. It was a beautiful experience!
Ah that's lovely to have that engagement with your granddaughter, hope she has your gift and you help encourage it. Happy new year, hope to be at more of your meet ups next year. Have wonderful new year.
Nicely written, Jack and I wish I hadn't missed out on many live session you've had in the last half of this year. For me it has changed a lot not having anymore such free access to Substack at work - it was my little breaks at work, helping me to relax my mind and focus better. Agreeing with you that worrying how the drawing/painting will look can suppress the organic flow of creation, a lot. That's why with cheap sketchbooks we can often create some of our best drawings/paintings. I was for the first time painting on a cotton canvas (a gift from a tenant at work) and that was quite a new experience - that texture, that size (A2?).
Happy New Year, Carl! I wish you a creative and productive year!✨ Live streams and meetings are such a great way to connect! Unfortunately, due to my day job and uni I rarely attend those, but I hope to join a couple when possible!
Thankyou Lisa, hope you have a creative year too. Completely understand, no worries. Hope to see you this year 👐
It was great following along with your sketching adventures this year, Carl.
Wishing you good health and many sketching adventures for 2026!
Thanks Nino, I was particularly jealous of your Usk adventure 😉 Best wishes for 2026
Happy 2026 Carl!
Thanks for the shout out, Carl. Keep making art.
Thanks Geoff
Nice memories of art with grandkids… first letting them draw in my sketchbooks and later a whole exhibit at a local coffee shop of art that my grandsons and I did together. It was a beautiful experience!
Whar lovely memories,
I can't really say this was drawing but she enjoyed it and it calmed her nervous system ready for sleep 😃 isn't art great. x
Ah that's lovely to have that engagement with your granddaughter, hope she has your gift and you help encourage it. Happy new year, hope to be at more of your meet ups next year. Have wonderful new year.
Wow A2, have you filled it yet? I see you've got yourself on Friday. Are you off for the holiday period still.
Wishing you the very best for 2026 😊
Thankyou, and you.
Nicely written, Jack and I wish I hadn't missed out on many live session you've had in the last half of this year. For me it has changed a lot not having anymore such free access to Substack at work - it was my little breaks at work, helping me to relax my mind and focus better. Agreeing with you that worrying how the drawing/painting will look can suppress the organic flow of creation, a lot. That's why with cheap sketchbooks we can often create some of our best drawings/paintings. I was for the first time painting on a cotton canvas (a gift from a tenant at work) and that was quite a new experience - that texture, that size (A2?).