Sketching has enormous benefits for mental health and for problem solving.

There is a very famous film of Picasso painting live. About halfway through creating an effortless masterpiece he says “ Ca va tres mal” (it’s going very badly). Even someone like Picasso struggled to get a painting to go where he wanted it to go. It’s his self-belief, confidence and self-trust that allows him to work through the “bad” stage and experience that tells him that he can make it right. I’m certainly not in that league, but that helped me to understand that I should push through (although sometime you can try too hard and take a sketch too far) and trust my instinct.

I don't think many places in the UK have so much condensed beauty in such a relatively small area as the Cotswolds.

Learning to see clearly through daily sketching

A skeuomorph is an ornament or design on an object made to resemble another object, material or technique. Skeuomorphs are deliberately used in design thinking to make us feel comfortable with something new by using something we already know