This new group aims to bring people together from the island for friendly and informal drawing activities.

Thank you very much to everyone who took part in this series of daily activities on Instagram and Facebook.

Today is the final day of Da Voar Draw! Thank you so much to everyone who’s drawn along, it’s been lovely to see your varied, inspired and always creative responses!

Today we're taking inspiration from the mysterious world of Lichens.

Today in our experiments with drawing water, we’re still working with volume, tone and line quality – but in much more free-flowing and experimental ways.

For Day 11 of Da Voar Draw, we are focusing on Trees! We have looked at trees and wood in a few different ways already during Da Voar Draw, but today’s activities are about further exploring depth in drawing through line quality. 

Today, through studying rocks, we’re going to further develop our understanding of ‘value’ or ‘tone’.

For Day 9, we’re going to look at ‘Energy Stores’ in plants. It’s fascinating to think of these ‘life support’ systems resting just underground, ready to give energy for regrowth when the season changes.

Today is Day 8 of Da Voar Draw, and it’s hard to believe we’re over half-way through this series of daily creative activities taking a fresh look at nature through drawing!

Today, we’re taking inspiration from ‘In Praise of Shadows’, an evocative essay by Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki: “We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates...”

Today’s drawings will further develop our exploration of shape by looking closely at just a few of the underlying geometrical patterns of design found in flowers.

Today we are taking inspiration from Buds. With tiny leaves all folded up inside, ready to burst open in the spring sunshine, they are miraculous forms.

Through looking closely at leaves, we’re now going to move from line to shape, the next ‘fundamental’ in drawing.

In Spring, action and change is visible everywhere, as a result of astronomical cycles. The limpet might be very unassuming and not travel very far, but it is certainly connected to celestial rhythms!

As spring progresses, we see plants bursting into life everywhere in the environment, beginning as fragile forms like these seedlings but soon gaining strength and structure.

Welcome to Da Voar Draw, a series of daily creative activities taking a fresh look at nature through drawing!