Blog Archive | James Nairne

Keeping it simple – Line Drawing

by Drawing Pad | Nov 16, 2013 | Blog, Drawing, Sketchbooks, Teaching

All in my Landscape A6 Seawhite Black hardbound sketchbook - that pretty much goes with me everywhere.

Blue wash – place and mood

by Drawing Pad | Oct 29, 2013 | Blog, Drawing, Painting, Sketchbooks

I really like how working into these colour wash pens with more water you can disrupt the surface and evoke different possible readings of place - the mood, the weather, the time.

Drawing on trains (again)

by Drawing Pad | Oct 23, 2013 | Blog, Drawing, Travel

A week of journeys and some good drawing opportunities. I so enjoyed drawing the couple in the top drawing. Click the images for more detail.

Rural and Urban

by Drawing Pad | Sep 30, 2013 | Blog, Drawing, Rural, Sketchbooks, Travel, Urban

One weekend in Shropshire, the next in London.

Finding stuff to draw in the everyday

by Drawing Pad | Aug 30, 2013 | Art, Blog, Books, Drawing, Sketchbooks

It's not always about finding something exciting or aesthetic to draw but about getting going and drawing what is there and seeing what happens.

Drawing for painting – imagination

by Drawing Pad | Aug 17, 2013 | Blog, Imagination, Painting, Sketchbooks

Three pages from recent sketchbooks, where I've been trying to get down ideas for painting. I'm not just conjuring the images from nothing. I'm using previous drawings, the TV as well as remembered moments. Thinking too about painting by Peter Doig and Daniel Richter....