Author archives: Ruth Clayton

A home-made, simple outdoor art kit. I’d like to discuss the art kit that I’ve found to be the most suitable for drawing outdoors especially when you have to carry it along with all your other walking equipment. It’s far too easy to carry a huge range of pencils, paints and brushes that in all …

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What is a sketchbook for? ‘Sketchbook : a book ‘of’ or ‘for’ sketches’ These are seven words which cannot truly describe the sketchbook and what it is capable of being in the hands of someone who regularly fills in its pages with images, ideas, words and phrases. It can be a journal, a diary, a …

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