NORA MacPHAIL - ARTIST

    I had an absolutely awesome time with the Toronto Urban Sketchers on Friday. We were invited to draw the Bangarra Dance...

This portrait sketching exercise is about drawing fast, using as few lines as possible (I tried to stick to 20...) and using ...

  Prismacolor Coloured Pencil Portraits. Hmm... despite having fun with coloured pencils recently, they just aren't for me. They...

Here's another drawing from Riverdale Farm, with Sepia Prismacolor coloured pencil on newsprint. This time I remembered to take st...

Some fellow artist and I from, the Toronto Plein-Air Group, met at the awesome Riverdale Farm to do some sketching. In order to take colou...

Well, not quite 100. And not quite a week, as the challenge was a 'work week' and ended today.  thinking about design and line.....

A few long overdue tree studies.

Today is Save the Rhino Day! I drew this with 6B pencil on newsprint.

The lovely talented artists in the Self-Portrait Drawing Class I'm teaching did wonderful on Thursday night! And... today I did a l...

I just discovered this awesome app/website called Quickposes. I'm working towards a 'certificate' they offer, 10 hours of...

If you're in Toronto on Monday April 13, 2015, I'll be doing a watercolour demonstration! Actually, first I'll be talking...

The Life Drawing Group I belong to is having a group art show at The Heliconian Club, 35 Hazelton Ave. Toronto from Feb.2 - Mar.2. We a...

Next month I'm teaching a third session of classes for the Cawthra Art Group here in Toronto. They are enjoying my exploration of ani...

This week's Life Drawing Session was great, as usual, and this male model always does interesting poses. These are charcoal penci...