Hello! I'm Mel, an illustrator + artist with a love of sketching on location. I share artist vlogs, sketching adventures, sketchbook tours and process videos here.

Another great exercise to change how your draw is to try keeping your pen or pencil on the page. Make your first mark ...

Apply random lines, scribbles and splashes. And aim to move your whole arm, perhaps even your whole body, to help you loosen up. Water-reactive crayons or pens, or the best watercolour pencils are ...

The youthful infatuation, creative partnership, break-up and Burton-Taylor-esque reunion of Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung ...

Kevin Prince, Portuguese Bend Artists Colony - Princely endeavors Painter Kevin Prince and the spirit of nature by Bondo ...

Arline Mann, a former Goldman Sachs managing director turned painter, brings a lawyer’s precision and an artist’s intuition to illuminate the quiet resurgence of representational painting in ...

"Our research indicates that engaging with the beauty of art can enhance abstract thinking and promote ... while the second group just matched a line drawing of the object with the artwork itself.

I’m happy. I’m privileged. I was put on this Earth to do something with my talent and I think I’m doing it. This life is ...

Mary Abbott modeled for Vogue and moved among icons like de Kooning. Now, her bold work is the subject of an overdue New York ...

The late artist Ruth Asawa regularly drew the bouquets people gave her. Years later, some of the sketches made it back to those who gave flowers.

In the work of artists I admire, all the training and discipline come out in an act of letting go: a splotch of ink, a ...