Japanese Body Painting Artist

First of all I'd like to take the opportunity to wish a Happy New Year from Making A Mark here in London. May you and your art enjoy the best of times in 2016 wherever you live around the world. Next I have a celebration....... New Year fireworks in London 1st January 2016 Making A Mark was born on 13th December 2005 in terms of the first time I published a post. However I did then change

The Rijksmuseum has started a campaign - #startdrawing - to get more people drawing. I hope the art museums in this country give the campaign their endorsement too. “In our busy lives we don’t always realize how beautiful something can be. We forget how to look really closely. Drawing helps because you see more when you draw. People who want to draw are always welcome in the Rijksmuseum.” Wim

Time for a pause in blogging - for reflection on the life of Polly, my much loved Abyssinian cat. "Pause"Polly sunbathing in the doorway heard me behind her and an ear twitched round - worked up from a 15 second sketch and my memory!14" x 11" coloured pencil on black Stonehenge paper She died this afternoon after becoming very sick with heart failure 10 days ago. Losing Polly would be bad

...which is why you really need to practice drawing in pen and ink! 10 reasons to draw in pen and ink When you draw in pen and ink you'll learn... 1. How to observe When you can't erase, you'll find you learn to become much more observant and practice looking more carefully on a routine basis when you're drawing. Drawing with a pen and without an eraser means you slow down at first and pay

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

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

I've noticed on every London Urban Sketchers sketchcrawl that I've organised that we always seem to get people coming along who are temporarily visiting London. Plus we also have a large group of people from around the UK (e.g. Oxford, Cambridge, Northampton, Southampton) who regularly come to the sketchcrawls in London It struck me that maybe other Urban Sketchers groups in the UK and other