Drawing Groups

This time in the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow, our drawing group tucked ourselves into the deep ferny vegetation of Kibble Palace to draw the frenzy of intertwining plants. We had a quirky session of drawing textures and shapes, then moved onto looking at the wider… Read More »Looking, sensing, watching in the Botanic Gardens…

We had a relaxing stress free time at our drawing group outside Kelvingrove Museum, where we connected to the trees and natural elements through our senses and sketching. The weather was a little bit threatening, but the rain stayed off and we all managed to… Read More »Mindful tree drawings at Kelvingrove

We had lots of fun in our summer drawing sessions at Glasgow Botanic Gardens and Riverside Museum. We started with doodling to loosen up our drawings then we enjoyed sketching using pens and coloured pencils. At the Riverside Museum, we enjoyed the open scenery upriver… Read More »Summer fun creative drawings in Glasgow

It was a lovely time drawing together inside the peaceful environment of the Winter Gardens, such a shame it may have to close soon for renovation. We sat so that we could look at the glass and white painted metal beams of the glasshouse, plus… Read More »Leafy palm trees and geometry at the Winter Gardens and People’s Palace

Back at Kelvingrove for the second time this year, this time inside! So much to draw, look at and investigate, so many fantastic and mysterious objects in the East Court. Within a few metres of where we sat we had an array of things such… Read More »Light hearted sketching from the fab Kelvingrove collection

We set up to draw inside the humid warmth of Kibble Palace, surrounded by the national tree fern collection (originally planted in the 1880’s impressively) partly as it was quite blowy outside. It was an enjoyable group and people found the two hours was a… Read More »Drawing in the jungle at the Botanic Gardens

There happened to be a maker’s event on at the Riverside museum so it was pretty busy, but soon after we started drawing at the river side of the building, next to the Tall Ship, we became engrossed in the sketching. Our warm up doodles… Read More »Curving and straight lines and cloudy skies over the open Clyde riverscape

Just outside the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum we had a couple of hours of relaxing sketching. After a bit of warm up doodling and taking a line for a walk, we used pencils and pens to work from the grand building with its abundance… Read More »Drawing quirky rooftops, arches and gulls at Kelvingrove