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Lucian Freud Archive of Sketchbooks and Drawings gifted to the nation

A Lucian Freud Archive of sketchbooks and drawings has been gifted to the nation by The Estate of Lucian Freud in settlement of £2,940,000 Inheritance Tax following the artist's death in 2011.  The Archive comprises 47 Sketchbooks spanning his career from the mid-1940s up until his death additional drawings;  a collection of 162 childhood drawings and  a collection of letters from Lucian

Urban Sketchers: Gabi Campanario steps down

A major announcement by Gabi Campanario today - he's stepping down from the Board of Urban Sketchers. Dear fellow urban sketchers, Since setting up the Urban Sketchers nonprofit in 2009, I've been quite involved with most operational aspects of the organization, from filing government forms and dealing with bank accounts to setting up blogs, organizing events and recruiting volunteers. As

The Big Draw - October 2015

This is the 16th year of The Big Draw - which takes place throughout October in various countries across the world as well as across the UK Last year 414,000 people attended over 1800 events by more than 1000 organisers across 26 countries! Now that's BIG! The theme is announced via drawing Key facts for anybody interested in drawing  ....or knows children, young people, adults or

Can you believe it? 8 million pageviews!

While I was out sketching in Cambridge on Sunday, somebody took a look at a page on Making A Mark and notched up the 8,000,000th page view - according to Blogger! Magdalen Bridge and Scudamores, Cambridgepen and sepia ink and coloured pencils I got a non-stop commentary from the Punter Guides of the history of Magdalene College as they went past below! Isn't it absolutely amazing that one