andrea joseph's sketchblog

I always think that as long as I come away from a day trip or sketchcrawl or Dr Sketchy or any sort of drawing event or opportunity with ...

Last weekend I had a trip to Amsterdam to film my classes for Sketchbook Skool . I'll be a tutor in the second Semester, which kicks ...

On Saturday night I went to sketch a Vaudeville extravaganza in the gorgeous Art Deco Library Theatre in Sheffield, called 'The Velve...

When I began my first travel themed journal I filled it with the souvenirs I'd brought from my trips. Because back then I would neve...

Hello folks. Once again, I am apologising for the lack of recent activity on my blog. I'm not blaming my drawing funk this time, but I...

click on drawing to view On Saturday our sketchcrawl group attended an open day for a park in Sheffield. It was an afternoon choc full ...

This is a pretty rotten drawing. I wasn't feeling it from the moment I started it. I just saw this bike, at the Crich 1950s day, and t...

I love Dr. Sketchy . I really do. Last night was another great session at The Greystones in Sheffield. We got to draw some stunning mod...

Here's another from a recent sketchcrawl in Chesterfield. It did not take place at night. It was just that the sketch was looking a bi...

Above is a drawing that I made at an exhibition at Buxton Museum recently. Well, I made part of it there and part at home. Below is a dr...

Another from our day sketching in Chesterfield. This was the 'shot' that I wanted to get; the crooked spire poking up (for want of...

 Since I got less scared about drawing outdoors a whole new world of subject matter has opened up to me. It was bad enough when I was havi...

I've often been asked about how I choose the things that I draw. The answer is I'm really not sure, I sometimes think that they ...

Here are the drawings that I made at SketchCrawl North's last meeting at the Imperial War Museum in Manchester. Well, to be honest, I ...

In quite a few of my drawings I have used notes, letters, lists and bits of paper, that other people have written on, as subject matter. So...

Here's a sketch I made yesterday. I've looked at this view for so long but used to think it was way too complicated to draw. Buildin...

Thank you, my subjects, young and old, old and new, for visiting my sketchblog. One IS amused. (oh yeah, and thanks to Kerry for taking this...

A couple of weeks back I could not stop drawing. Seriously, it was out of control. I always new that that would be followed by a bit of a f...

Slightly freaky, I know. It still freaks me out every time I open this sketchbook, and, for that matter, every time I open my kitchen door ...

The chutney, above, is one of the delicacies I took to our Mad Hatter's Tea and Sketching Party back in January . Inspired by, my drawi...