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Day 39 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: fruit bowl, and that’s a wrap - the sketchbook is full. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials.
A drawing of a fruit bowl over an open spread of a sketchbook. To the left of the drawing lies two coloured pencils and a water brush used.
September 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Day 38 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: garden in spring. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials.
A drawing of a garden in spring with lots of verdant green growth as well as coloured flowers. Rusted fences stand in the background .
September 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Day 37 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: squeaky dog toy. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials.
A drawing of a squeaky ebi nigiri dog toy in the foreground, across an open spread of a sketchbook. In the background sits the actual dog toy.
September 8, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Day 36 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: dog toy 2. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials.
A drawing of a squeaky carrot dog toy in the foreground, with the actual dog toy lying behind.
September 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Day 36 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: dog toy. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials.
A drawing of a squeaky firefly dog toy done with gouache. It’s painterly and rough - yellow with lots of black shadow. The real Dog toy used for reference is in the background.
September 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Day 35 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: pansy. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials.
A drawing of the face of a pansy, with an ambiguous greenish background on the right page of a sketchbook. The palette used is on the left side and the paintbrush lies in the middle.
September 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Day 34 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: sleeping dog in a shirt. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials.
A drawing of a sleeping dog in a t-shirt. The colours are black, blue and brown only.
September 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Day 33 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: rococo tulip. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials.
A drawing of a rococo tulip using a grey marker, green and yellow watercolours. The tulip drawing is on one page of a sketchbook, and the materials used lay opposite.
September 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Day 32 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: lamp. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials.
A drawing of a lamp with a marble base and round cylindrical shade. The lamp is on and light glows through the shade, spilling out above and below through the shade’s openings.
September 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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#3MaterialsDrawingChallenge
Day 30+31/31

- draw from life every day
- for no longer than 30 mins
- use 3 materials

In the last days of August, I had little time to draw.

#InverteFest
#naturejournaling 🌱 #naturesketching
#watercolor
#FineArt
#sketchbook
#art
#kleineKunstklasse
Sketchbook with drawing of an eggplant, butterfly and expressive tomatoe plants in front of tomatoe plants. Butterfly (Catocala fraxini) Eggplant with flowers.
September 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Day 31 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: hare and sun- actually featuring a dodgy repair job I did on a patch that is covering another hole on a black hoodie. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials.
A drawing (left) of a hare sitting in the foreground with a yellow sun in front and a red background. On the right is a repaired patch on red linen with a print of a black hare on it that was the reference. The repair is done with gold thread and a good heavy fabric behind.
September 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Day 30 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: lemons in a bowl. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials. Hosted by @naomitippingillustrator, @kathryn_boyt, and @charlotte.durance over on IG, the challenge runs for the month of August.
A drawing of 3 lemons in a yellow bowl, with the bowl casting a long shadow to the left.
August 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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#3MaterialsDrawingChallenge
Day 28/31

- draw from life every day
- for no longer than 30 mins
- use 3 materials

Spiders can sometimes regrow legs. 🤗
And the first ripe apples in late summer.

#InverteFest
#naturejournaling 🌱 #naturesketching
#watercolor
#FineArt
#sketchbook
#art
#kleineKunstklasse
Sketchbook in front of a spider in its web. Garden spider (Araneus diadematus) in its web. One hind leg is poorly developed. Sketchbook in the grass with apples and pencils.
August 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Day 29 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: hellebore. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials. Hosted by @naomitippingillustrator, @kathryn_boyt, and @charlotte.durance over on IG, the challenge runs for the month of August.
A drawing of a red hellebores, centred to the image.
August 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Day 28 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: dinner. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials. Hosted by @naomitippingillustrator, @kathryn_boyt, and @charlotte.durance over on IG, the challenge runs for the month of August.
A drawing of pieces of sushi scattered across the page: one tuna and cucumber, one omelette and cucumber, and another partial piece. Done with black fineliner, green and yellow ochre watercolours.
August 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Day 27 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: sleeping dog (again). The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials. Hosted by @naomitippingillustrator, @kathryn_boyt, and @charlotte.durance over on IG, the challenge runs for the month of August.
A drawing of a sleeping dog in red and blue pencil.
August 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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#3MaterialsDrawingChallenge
Day 27/31

- draw from life every day
- for no longer than 30 mins
- use 3 materials

...and another model who couldn't sit still. 🙄
#EinmalMitProfisArbeiten

#InverteFest 🐝
#naturejournaling 🌱 #naturesketching
#watercolor
#FineArt
#sketchbook
#art
#kleineKunstklasse
Sketchbook in front of a blooming hollyhock (Alcea rosea). A bumblebee flies by. Field bumblebee (Bombus pascuorum) approaching hollyhock blossom.
August 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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#3MaterialsDrawingChallenge
Day 26/31

Cold night, hot day.
The St. John's wort (Hypericum) has mostly finished flowering.
Field bumblebees and honeybees are visiting the flowers.

#InverteFest 🐝
#naturejournaling 🌱 #naturesketching
#coloredpencildrawing
#FineArt
#sketchbook
#art
#kleineKunstklasse
Sketchbook against a faded St. John's wort plant and a blue sky. A bee flies in the background. Flying honey bee in yellow St. John's wort flowers.
August 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Happy Toadstool Tuesday! Erm, I think I made that up? Or is that a thing? 🤔
Anyways, I had another go at the #3materialsdrawingchallenge using a reference and enjoyed creating this piece!

I wonder who lives in this magical place? Any ideas? 🩷

#sketchbook #kidlitart
August 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Day 26 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: the next daffodil. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials. Hosted by @naomitippingillustrator, @kathryn_boyt, and @charlotte.durance over on IG, the challenge runs for the month of August.
A drawing of pots of flowers in front of an iron fence. One of the pots has peas trained up three posts of wood tied together, one has a daffodil, and one has unidentified leaves and purple flowers.
August 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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With this filing cart I travel in my subterranean cardboard universe #archief #archive #lunchsketch #quicksketch #3materialsdrawingchallenge * day 25/31 #pilotfrixion #acrylicmarkers #sepiapencil #kohinoor
August 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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#3MaterialsDrawingChallenge
Day 25/31

Discovered while picking beans. 😍 (Tettigonia viridissima)
But if the model doesn't sit still, she shouldn't complain afterwards. 🤭

Happy #InverteFest 🤗
#naturejournaling 🌱 #naturesketching
#coloredpencildrawing
#FineArt
#sketchbook
#art
#kleineKunstklasse
Sketchbook and pencils in front of dried St. John's wort with a grasshopper climbing around in it. Very big grasshopper (Tettigonia viridissima), female.
August 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Day 25 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: chip cherry mushroom. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials. Hosted by @naomitippingillustrator, @kathryn_boyt, and @charlotte.durance over on IG, the challenge runs for the month of August.
A drawing of a small mushroom with a red cap.
August 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Day 24 of the #3materialsdrawingchallenge: viola flowers. The challenge involves drawing from life in 30minutes using only three materials. Hosted by @naomitippingillustrator, @kathryn_boyt, and @charlotte.durance over on IG, the challenge runs for the month of August.
Drawings of four differently-coloured viola flowers spaced in 4 quarters of a double page spread. The colours are all versions of red and yellow, with a bit of purple for depth.
August 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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#3MaterialsDrawingChallenge
Day 23/31

If 3 materials don't work together... 🙄

(I sketched the black swans last week at Rombergpark.)

#Westfalenpark 🦩#naturesketching
#mixedmedia
#FineArt
#sketchbook
#art
#kleineKunstklasse
Sketchbook in front of the fountain. Flamingo in the pond.
August 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM