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Little Acorn with Lightfast Pencils on Lightfast Paper by Julia Woning

Like all of my pieces, the best place to start is with a sketch of my chosen subject. For today,[…]

When the world’s a little grey, the perfect thing to do is add your own colour and brighten it up![…]

My favourite thing to draw is animals so I grabbed my Derwent Lightfast Pencils and decided to draw this autumnal[…]

What makes an artist? Is it a childhood spent drawing on the kitchen floor? Is it a unique style that[…]

What makes an artist? Is it a childhood spent drawing on the kitchen floor? Is it a unique style that[…]

Like all of my pieces, the best place to start is with a sketch of my chosen animal. After I[…]

Just before ‘lockdown’ I was happy to receive a small package from Derwent, containing some sample paint palette boxes. Having[…]

Derwent Presents: Inside the Sketchbook with Pippa Toole What makes an artist? Is it a childhood spent drawing on the[…]

A few weeks ago, we announced the winners of the Derwent Art Prize People’s Choice Awards. Out of the 4,756 entries submitted by artists[…]

So we’re in the middle of the virus lockdown and the artist in me is shouting ‘why aren’t you using[…]