I’ve never learned to draw very well, and that usually hasn’t been a problem as I’d rather use abstract shapes like letterforms, rectangles, dots and circles in my broadsides and books. But last week I needed an image of some fireflies in a jar, and my attempts to draw them were just too sad. It’s at times like this that I remember the matchbooks lying around the house when I was a kid that had ads for art correspondence courses. Usually there was a picture on the front and the caption ”Are You an Artist? Find Out FREE! Draw Me.”
My friend Cathy, who teaches book arts to kids, claims she can only draw frogs. But recently she decided to add to her repertoire when she found this how to draw a hedgehog by children’s illustrator Jan Brett.
A quick look at the online catalogue for my local library produces a long list of “how to draw…” books. I have a book to return, so I’ll be stopping in to take a look at those how-to books, as well as trying to draw a few hedgehogs.
Since the beginning of this year, I’ve been experimenting with another type of collage using paper (wonderful Japanese stuff called 
