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Coffee Drinking Christmas Dinosaurs

Coffee Drinking Christmas Dinosaurs

  • Post author:Nicola Schofield
  • Post published:27 April 2023
  • Post category:illustration/picture books

Coffee drinking Christmas dinosaurs, Reindeer, trees and a sea of Santas, all running in the snow. Sometimes the crazy bits of illustrations come straight from life.

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A hint of net curtains

A hint of net curtains

  • Post author:Nicola Schofield
  • Post published:21 February 2023
  • Post category:illustration/picture books/sketchbook

We can all get too close to our work when we're in the middle of it. We need some distance to be able to judge images for what they are, rather than what we hoped they would be.

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Scribbling With Passion

Scribbling With Passion

  • Post author:Nicola Schofield
  • Post published:5 July 2021
  • Post category:sketchbook

Work from an urban sketching workshop with Isabel Carmona, focussed on creating depth and defining space with expressive line and energetic solids.

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Life Drawing Reptiles

Life Drawing Reptiles

  • Post author:Nicola Schofield
  • Post published:5 March 2020
  • Post category:sketchbook

At the end of February I spent a day life drawing reptiles at Crocodiles of the World in Brize Norton. Six of us gathered away from the main enclosures, in…

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Encircled by trolleys. They congregate outside Sainsbury's and look all innocent until you take your eye off them for a moment then suddenly you're surrounded! Notice the one at the back pretending to have fallen over and be injured. Don't fall for it! They'll eat you up!
This was my entry to the Picturehooks character competition quiet / loud. Swipe for the mayhem :)
There's been some conservation work going on in Forbury Gardens (Reading, Berkshire) for a while, with the bandstand and Maiwand Lion sectioned off.
This evening I joined @bethspencerart for @introvertdrawingclub and it was really nice to just concentrate on drawing but know that people are drawing the same thing alongside you and there being no pressure to be chatting away at the same time. I can't multi-task like that 😅
Had a bit of time for some sketches in the park this afternoon.
Spent some time sketching trees in the sun yesterday.
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