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Drawn to drawing. Art lecturer turned author and online art tutor https://linktr.ee/helenbirch_drawdrawdraw

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Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Pekudei (פְקוּדֵי) with a bear climbing up the central margin of the page.
#ParashahPictures
Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.58r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

09.03.2026 19:49 👍 32 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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09.03.2026 23:21 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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And I think of the things that matter

14.02.2026 09:15 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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A quick grab of a working drawing before I wreck it and then decide that I liked it after all

16.02.2026 23:23 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Algunos sketches rápidos del finde.

08.03.2026 19:13 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Sometimes a Mess.
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5 1/2 x 17 inches, watercolor in sketchbook

#watercolor #sketchbook #drawing

02.03.2026 05:06 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Sleepless Paint 018a - 55 x 75 cm - Mixed media on paper.

⬜️⬜️⬜️

10.03.2026 06:27 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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📷 Larissa Leverenz, Wild at Heart_01, 2025. [Tusche und Acryl auf Büttenpapier]

04.03.2026 19:15 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A collection of life drawings of a male nude. Some on flat sheets of paper, others in a sketchbook. 
Materials used - charcoal, 6B pencil, black pen.

A collection of life drawings of a male nude. Some on flat sheets of paper, others in a sketchbook. Materials used - charcoal, 6B pencil, black pen.

A mellow Sunday evening, 2hr life drawing session.
#lifedrawing #figuredrawing #drawing

09.03.2026 13:20 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“A pastel with white heightening of a beach scene with a Scottish Terrier fascinated by a crab”

“Most likely the artist's dog; several of the drawings and sketches by Muriel Helen Dawson (1897-1974), held at the Natural History Museum, London, depict a Scottish Terrier and Cocker Spaniel, the artist's dogs, walking in the Sussex countryside.”

Signed bottom left "M Dawson" to the reverse in pencil "Muriel Dawson and in pen Seashore original by Muriel Dawson"

“A pastel with white heightening of a beach scene with a Scottish Terrier fascinated by a crab” “Most likely the artist's dog; several of the drawings and sketches by Muriel Helen Dawson (1897-1974), held at the Natural History Museum, London, depict a Scottish Terrier and Cocker Spaniel, the artist's dogs, walking in the Sussex countryside.” Signed bottom left "M Dawson" to the reverse in pencil "Muriel Dawson and in pen Seashore original by Muriel Dawson"

Muriel Helen Dawson (NZ/UK, 1897-1974)
Seashore, c.1935
Pastel with white heightening
www.hamsheregallery.co.uk/stock.php?id...
#DogsInArt #ScottishTerrier #WomenArtists

12.02.2026 22:10 👍 54 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
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Diary 13.02.2026

13.02.2026 15:29 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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#Collage 054.2026
~16 x 17 cm

#Acrylic #paintedpaper and #mixedmedia in an old sketchbook
#art @bsky.art

16.02.2026 14:03 👍 64 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Standing fox with some simplified lines, wax and oil pastels and pencils , one eye squinting

Standing fox with some simplified lines, wax and oil pastels and pencils , one eye squinting

Tummy Ache Fox 2

20.02.2026 15:39 👍 67 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
Monochrome magazine pages and images stapled together on the right-hand side. Pages in size order with smaller in front, occluding the bigger behind form a rudimentary book

Monochrome magazine pages and images stapled together on the right-hand side. Pages in size order with smaller in front, occluding the bigger behind form a rudimentary book

Pamphlet of pages

#collage #scrapbook #stapled

05.03.2026 18:20 👍 29 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Front cover of Passports, an intimate body of work by Keisha Scarville taken from an ongoing series centred around her father’s earliest passport photograph. The artist has reinterpreted the photograph over three hundred times to date, each iteration reworked and collaged with varying materials and found imagery – paints, beads, photograph fragments of Black bodies, gold leaf, glitter – to form a deeply textured act of photomontage. Published by Mack 2026

Front cover of Passports, an intimate body of work by Keisha Scarville taken from an ongoing series centred around her father’s earliest passport photograph. The artist has reinterpreted the photograph over three hundred times to date, each iteration reworked and collaged with varying materials and found imagery – paints, beads, photograph fragments of Black bodies, gold leaf, glitter – to form a deeply textured act of photomontage. Published by Mack 2026

Keisha Scarville, Passports
Mack

mackbooks.co.uk/products/pas...

08.03.2026 12:33 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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08.03.2026 17:09 👍 454 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 6
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Shall we go out walking?

08.03.2026 11:49 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
This is a sketch from bodmin moor

This is a sketch from bodmin moor

This is a sketch from bodmin moor

This is a sketch from bodmin moor

This is a sketch from bodmin moor

This is a sketch from bodmin moor

This is a sketch from bodmin moor

This is a sketch from bodmin moor

#bodminmoor #kernow #art #drawing #sketching #graphite #moors

07.03.2026 01:46 👍 51 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
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Winter’s End. 15x11 #ink #watercolor #draw #mentalhealth

08.03.2026 12:38 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Pink Grub Curl
3/2024 14 X 14 inches [35.6 X 35.6 cm] Colored Pencil on Paper #sciart #gawoski #arthropod #beetle

08.03.2026 13:05 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
An ink drawing in greys of the peak of the Matterhorn.

An ink drawing in greys of the peak of the Matterhorn.

The Matterhorn from Fluhalp, Switzerland.

08.03.2026 16:39 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Sketch detail version of Lizzy Ansigh´s “Portrait of Coba Ritsema”, 1905

Sketch detail version of Lizzy Ansigh´s “Portrait of Coba Ritsema”, 1905

Sketch version of Lizzy Ansigh´s “Portrait of Coba Ritsema”, 1905

Sketch version of Lizzy Ansigh´s “Portrait of Coba Ritsema”, 1905

“Portrait of Coba Ritsema”
Ansigh (Lizzy - Maria Elisabeth Georgina - Ansigh), 1905
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
8.25 x 5 in (21,5 x 12,7 cm)
Ink markers, brush pen, and watercolor on plain 70 G/M² sketchbook paper
10/29/25
#TeylersMuseum #ansigh #lizzyansigh #ritsema #cobaritsema

08.03.2026 22:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A small selection of drawings on endpapers.

07.03.2026 13:24 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A well dressed man chews an empty cigarette holder and reads a paperback while reclining

A well dressed man chews an empty cigarette holder and reads a paperback while reclining

Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️ My version of John Singer Sargent’s 1904 painting, ‘Man Reading’
Challenge by @studioteabreak.bsky.social

07.03.2026 15:07 👍 35 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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#ink #watercolor #mood

07.03.2026 18:09 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Digital illustration of a map, in a playful and colorful style.

Digital illustration of a map, in a playful and colorful style.

I finally finished this map illustration and with that I want to say IF YOU NEED A MAP FOR YOUR PROJECT PLEASE HMU! I loved working on it, I want more map work in 2026!

It’s for a modern romance book series but I can do other styles except maybe sci-fi stuff.

#illustration #art #map #digitalart

07.03.2026 09:40 👍 140 🔁 27 💬 9 📌 0
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Geastrum, or Earthstar mushroom, from Anna Maria Hussey’s ‘Illustrations of British mycology’ Published in London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1849-55.

I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections.

#hernaturalhistory #Geastrum #earthstar

06.03.2026 23:40 👍 26 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
A fabric collage - background is in various shades of blue with the eye and beak in black, white and gray

A fabric collage - background is in various shades of blue with the eye and beak in black, white and gray

Eye and beak completed on the Belted Kingfisher who visits my home by the bay
⬇️ click it
calicohorses.com

#embroidery #quiltsky #freemotionembroidery #sciart #birdart #artquilt #onlybeautifulthings #uplift #art #fabricart #rawapplique #fabriccollage #threadpainting #birds #textileart #illustration

07.03.2026 10:49 👍 29 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Are we "real" artists? Helen Birch on the Art for All podcast: 67
Are we "real" artists? Helen Birch on the Art for All podcast: 67 This week on the podcast, Danny chats with Helen Birch. Helen is an art tutor and blogger and has been an art lecturer at several art and design institution...

Are we "real" #artists? Helen Birch @drawdrawdraw.bsky.social on the Art for All podcast: 67
Did you know Sketchbook Skool published a podcast? Be inspired while you #draw or drive!

24.02.2026 14:57 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Another painting of parrot tulips, this time a pastel. These are in a favourite vintage glass jug which is a bit wonky and I like that. This was framed and sold and I think I probably pastelled out the white blank area top right

Another painting of parrot tulips, this time a pastel. These are in a favourite vintage glass jug which is a bit wonky and I like that. This was framed and sold and I think I probably pastelled out the white blank area top right

Another painting of parrot tulips, this time a pastel. These are in a favourite vintage glass jug which is a bit wonky and I like that. This was framed and sold and I think I probably pastelled out the white blank area top right.
#pastel #flowers #tulips

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