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Sustainably Creative by Michael Nobbs

Little and Often

Evaporated milk has kept me sane


I might be exaggerating a little, but only a little. My morning cup of coffee with evaporated milk this last year or so has proved a huge comfort, providing a little bit of daily joy, It feels fitting that a tin features in what is going to be the last drawing in my Looking for more »

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this blue makes me very happy…


…the new colour of the walls in my studio.

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Drawing Avatars


Thank you to everyone who’s supported this week’s avatar/portrait project. Between making soup and cheese scones I’ve completed five, of what I hope will be ten portraits this week. I’ve two more waiting in the wings to finish, so there’s still time to order one of the remaining three I’d like to do.

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this week I’m going to be (slowly) drawing avatars


It’s been a VERY slow drawing month so far. I’ve been channeling my energy into redecorating my studio. Regular visitors here probably know that the space has been full of many, many boxes of things from my mother’s house, moved there after she died last year. Over the last few months I’ve sorted through a more »

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I want to squeeze lemons…


I was celebrating Pancake Day on Tuesday (as an aside, I regularly chat and post drawing related links on Twitter and was surprised to find that when I chatted about Pancake Day lots of people had never heard of it. Is it a peculiarly British thing?). The particularly good thing about Pancake Day this year more »

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  • Michael Nobbs

    I'm Michael Nobbs, an artist, blogger and tea drinker (not necessarily in that order).

    I'd like to show you that it is possible to stay creative even when energy is in short supply, and how working on small creative acts on a regular basis can build over time into a substantial body of work (and even a creative career).

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