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Drawings from #drawingisfree Monday 24th Nov. 2025
Showing: Bry, Martin Franco, Cammilla Gray and Barbara Wallis
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#drawingfast #speedportrait #acrylicportrait #charcoalface

You’re Not Failing: Artists Have Always Had Day Jobs Feeling like a failure for needing a day job? Artists have always balanced multiple income streams. Learn why your sustainable model isn't settling—it's smart.

Great article by my long-time blogging friend Lee Down
#art
artsartistsartwork.com/youre-not-fa...

Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

Flowers in a vase lit by low autumn light against dark shadows

Flowers in a vase lit by low autumn light against dark shadows

Flowers in a vase lit by low autumn light against dark shadows

Large white daisy type Flowers in a vase lit by low autumn light against dark shadows

Some recent autumn floral shots:

Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink.

Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.

A few of my best drawings from #drawingisfree and some abbreviated thoughts:
There is something in the speed and informality that creates a hot-house growing environment that is very conducive to experimentation and risk taking.
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#fastdrawing #speeddrawing #drawingeurope #drawingisfree #drawinguk

Mrs A often complains the poetry I read/write/share is serious, gloomy, & downright depressing...

She may have a point, but to prove I'm not a one trick pony...

Just back from a forest walk, kicking through drifts of leaves - reminded of this by Brian Bilston

#poetry
#poemoftheday
#autumn
#fall

Here are some of my drawings from Monday mornings #drawingisfree
Here I used #biro on pre-made watercolour and acrylic backgrounds

Jim Conwell | Substack Click to read Jim Conwell, a Substack publication. Launched 7 hours ago.

I just subscribed to Jim Conwell's substack because he is a really good Brittish poet. jimpconwell.substack.com?r=fp4n3&utm_...

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.

Drawings from the latest #drawingisfree session

From this mornings #drawingisfree working with ink and a stick on paper with some prepped bg’s in acrylic
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#europeandrawing #drawingforall #sitinturn #speeddrawing #abbreviateddrawing
#portraiture #portraitdrawing #fastportraits
#livedrawing #drawingpresence

Four of my felt-tip watercolour fast portraits from Monday mornings #drawingisfree session

And now a message from the White House... Good Morning Amerikkka. How are you?

Racism is bad for the economy. Economic growth stems from either increases in labor productivity or population size. Shrinking the population (and removing productive workers) shrinks the economy BY DEFINITION. People like Stephen Miller love racism more than economic prosperity 6/x

The Trump Administration is trying to forge a personalist authoritarian regime and honestly the conditions for success are there. However, they're *way* out over their skis at the moment. Their pure recklessness is making their path to success way harder 1/x

Here’s my movie about ‘Desprite’ a ceramic sculpture with four wheels and a head.
#ceramicsculpture #contemporarysculpture
#ceramicsnow
#inthestudio
#contemporaryart

Four from #DrawingisFree today. I worked with runny acrylics applied with sticks mainly on A3

This month we are celebrating inspiring work shared in the Axis Community, chosen by members of the Axis team. Featuring works from: Catherine Wynne-Paton, Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton, Lucie Kordacova, Chisara Vidale, Katie Taylor, Adam York Gregory and Gillian Jane Lees: buff.ly/drEPoVw

🗣️ Calling all artist-led collectives, spaces & initiatives!

Are you part of an artist-led group in the UK? Know of a collective, space or initiative that’s doing powerful, community-rooted work? Tag them below, share their handle, or send us a direct message!

Aren't the Police the protective force that maintains the status quo for the wealthy elite? Don't you think we ought to attack the roots of social problems instead of jamming people into overcrowded prisons?

We all need art

Drawings from Mondays #drawingisfree Marker pens over acrylic patches

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.

🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...

Farage and the US Religious Right are celebrating policy wins here - and there's been a huge rise in prosecutions for abortion.

Please email your MP and ask them to support Stella Creasy's amendment to decriminalise abortion; we've made it so easy for you. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

Some recent minimal shots
#photography #minimal #indoors

A shelf of 3 books about Roger Moore, Thomas More, and Henry Moore

In the midnight hour
she cried
Moore, More, Moore

With a rebel yell
she cried
Moore, More, Moore

Fast portraits from this Monday mornings #drawingisfree showing Julia Tagert, Malu Hendrickzen, Jo or Joy Stevens and Janine Hall
#fastportraits #drawingonline #zoomdrawing

Fast drawing portrait in felt tip pen of a young woman wearing glasses looking to her left with her chin resting in her hand with the palm facing us and the thumb on her left

Today with #drawingisfree I tried working with felt pens for the first time..
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#drawingmatters #drawingcommunity #sculptorsdrawing
#collectdrawings

Todays best effort with #drawingisfree this morning. Working in graphite and pastel/chalk over pre-painted ground. There are eleven other drawings I am not showing (cos they are a bit dull)
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#drawing #europeandrawing #drawingforall #sitinturn #speeddrawing #abbreviateddrawing