An Artist's Life For Me!

Sit on the shoulder of a working artist and nosy into the ups and downs of my world. Stow away on my adventures, to learn how my reportage-sketching works; watch how my picture books are created, from your spy-hole inside my studio; sneak a peak into my sketchbooks; join me on my newest exploration into the colourful world of textiles... and be there to help me tear my hair when things aren't going to plan!

Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Exhibition of my Australia Sketchbooks

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Although I finished my Australian residency back in May this year, we didn't have a proper exhibition of the work at the time, just ...

Sunday, 11 November 2018

Making More Concertina Sketchbooks

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This morning, I am making lots of mini-concertinas of watercolour paper, because my next residency, with York University, starts first t...

Wednesday, 7 November 2018

I'm Having an Exhibition of my Textiles!

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Hi all. Sorry for the absence. I have been trying to concentrate on my work, specifically, I've been getting stuck into my hand-stit...

Thursday, 20 September 2018

Artists & Illustrators Mag: Sketching People at Work

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John and I have just come back from a lovely road-trip in the Scottish highlands, to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. There was a...

Tuesday, 21 August 2018

I'm Auctioning another Tree Painting

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I wanted to let you know that I am auctioning off another of my tree paintings. This time it is a watercolour I painted on Briar Road in...

Friday, 17 August 2018

Instagram Take-Over Day

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Next Wednesday, I am going to be taking over the Instagram page of Hobbycraft. I was invited to do it via someone at Derwent Pencils, w...

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Tuesday, 14 August 2018

Illustrations of 'A-Day-in-the-Life'

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In my last post, I told you about the day of sketching I did in the offices of a team of architects. If you remember, it was slightly dif...

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Monday, 6 August 2018

A Day in the Life of an Architect

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So what do architects do all day? To be honest, I wasn't really sure. I know they design buildings and spaces, probably m...

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Sunday, 29 July 2018

An Envelope Full of Lovely Things!

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This week, a fat, A4 envelope dropped onto the mat. On the front was a dragon, (looking very like the one in Dragon's Dinner ......

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Wednesday, 25 July 2018

A Tree for the Trees!

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It's been a bit of a nail-biting week... Followers who live in Sheffield (and even some who don't) will know about the tree c...

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Lynne Chapman

Lynne the Pencil: I have been a professional artist all my life. I have illustrated over 30 children's books, created large public murals and now work as a reportage-artist, sketching life as it happens, often alongside academic researchers. In the time between sketching residencies, I create hand-stitched, fine-art textiles, translating my love of mark-making and colour into thread. I am an Urban Sketchers correspondent and my book Sketching People was published by Search Press and Barrons in 2016. I give inspirational lectures, and run workshops, both in the UK and abroad, for adults and in schools. I have delivered events in Beijing, Brazil, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Chicago, and Perth, Australia. Email me if you would like to book a talk or workshop. If you are interested in a particular aspect of my work, want to follow an individual project, or find out more Yorkshire's free monthly SketchCrawls, check out the labels below.

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