I went sketching in Notting Hill with some friends. We’d read on Facebook about an event organised by the group Urban Sketchers: they go sketching out and about, then meet…
The V&A’s Department of Theatre and Performance recently held a festival to celebrate the 450th birthday of Shakespeare, with lots of events and performances happening around the museum. Shakespeare was celebrated…
Ink and wash drawings of the pond near my house. Trying to find a setting for my story!
I had so much fun drawing the ducks in this park, it’s made me rethink my story — instead of my sequence about a crow, I’m going to do waterbirds…
23-11-12: The kind people at Kew allowed me in to draw the Herbarium and the Economic Botany Collection, and what a privilege it was. Thank you to Chris Mills, Mark…
Another chance to draw at a V&A Friday Late. This one was called ‘Record, Reframe, Resist’ and was related to the exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East: New Photography’. This…
Here’s an iguanodon at the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge. I’ve been reading Edward Ardizzone’s war diaries (oh look, there’s lots of excerpts online here) and enjoying the way he uses…
Today I was extremely lucky, because I had the opportunity to draw behind the scenes at the NHM. I must thank Daisy Cunynghame for helping me to organise it, and…
The last Friday of every month means a special Friday Late event at the V&A. This one was themed around horror movies and all things spooky. Friday Lates are always…
This week I drew at the Natural History Museum. I began with the most iconic thing I could’ve picked, Dippy the diplodocus skeleton in the main entrance hall. The environment…
Siân Sharp - Artist and Illustrator 