Gillian Cross Art Blog

With Walk & Sketch classes coming up later this year, I thought I'd share my travel sketching kit with you. I often post photos on social media but never really...

It's not often that I remember to take so many progress photos of a watercolour landscape but on this occasion I did, so I thought I'd share the progression here....

This month we're getting out of the "classroom" and taking a walk. To sketch en plein air along the river at Newburn. Whenever I go out for a walk, I...

...when you usually love sketching en plein air! I just spent four nights away over my big birthday in South West Scotland. Knowing that a January birthday break would be...

This January I will be 50 years old. How on earth did that happen?! To celebrate, I'm giving away a free mystery greeting card with every purchase made in January...

One of the things I love about posting my sketches on social media, and teaching art classes is inspiring other people to sketch. I love it when students come into...