Sam Marshall is a printmaker living in rural Northamptonshire with her mini dachshund Miss Marple. She trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and gained an MA level Diploma at the Royal Drawing School where she now teaches. She has always been passionate about drawing, her favourite thing to do is travel with her sketchbook and see what inspires her. Sam runs online drawing and printmaking workshops that attract students from all over the world and is the author of the best-selling Linocut.
No one is more passionate about helping us to pick up our pencils and get started. This book is ideal for total beginners, artists who have lost the habit of sketching and everyone in between…. Thank you, Sam, for giving me back my childhood relish for drawing. * Laura Smith, artist and tutor at Heatherley School of Fine Art * I’d highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to reconnect with their creativity through the medium of drawing… With the infectious positivity of someone who knows they are giving a special gift Sam guides her group and the reader through a series of activities designed to banish fear. By doing each workshop the reader can look back through their sketchbook and realize with pride just how far they have come. * James Lloyd, portrait painter *