Expressive drawing means being more YOU…

It means letting your thoughts and feelings show up in your drawing as part of your art.

It’s all about looking, feeling and being creative… but where to start with this?
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The objective of this drawing lesson is to understand how to put your own expression and personality into your art.

In this section, we’re looking more at our personal self-expression in our art...

We’ll be building on what we thought about in the previous post about collecting personal and meaningful drawing inspiration from nature…
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As well as our thoughts about what art is and why our self-expression in art matters.

The Artwaves Festival is going digital this year and I'm taking part in the Open Art Exhibition, on now until 7th March 2021...

You can see my 'Peony & Comma Butterfly' artwork alongside over 200 other beautiful and interesting artworks on all different themes and in all different styles. You can also vote for mine or another favourite as the 'audience's choice.' See the digital art exhibition here...

The Artwaves Festival is also holding a week of excellent art & creativity workshops and demos (all to be held online this year) - get inspired and be a part of the festival here...
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See more of my artwork here
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See more press & events here

Inspired by Celtic knotwork and Medieval manuscripts - my 'Blue Butterflies' Celtic Medieval artwork...

If you've taken my Essential Drawing Skills course, you'll know that I'm very inspired by Medieval artwork and Medieval manuscripts, as well as Celtic knotwork... 

Now that I feel a little more practised with my Celtic knotwork, I thought I'd see if I could also bring in more of a feel of a medieval manuscript - I love the way that tiny paintings of flowers, butterflies, birds, animals and even people decorate the edges of the manuscript pages, and I thought I'd like to bring something of that to this artwork.

​I'm also drawing on my recent Celtic art style butterfly and flower artworks - I wanted to keep drawing butterflies as I've loved drawing them so much.
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I started out with the Celtic knotwork - carefully planning out a design...

Celtic ash tree art prints & products, Celtic tree calendar version, plus ash tree myth and folklore...

Pretty Daisy and Painted Lady butterfly artwork in a Celtic knotwork style...

We're feeling as fresh and happy as a summer daisy with my pretty Painted Lady butterfly artwork - there's nothing like an innocent daisy to bring us a cheerful smile!

I create my artwork digitally from hand-drawn pieces in pen, marker, and coloured pencil. Here's how I created this piece...

Fabulously floral Peony & Comma Butterfly Celtic art by Lotti Brown - art prints & printed products available...

A sense of summer with this blousy pale pink peony and pretty, colourful comma butterfly...

I create my artwork from pen and pencil drawings and then put everything together digitally to create the final piece... here's how it happened...

Pretty pink rose and red admiral butterfly artwork...

A striking Red Admiral butterfly alights on a pretty pink rose with Celtic knotwork surround...

I create my artwork digitally from my own pen drawings...
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Loving nature and sunshine with my pretty Peacock Butterfly & Sunflower art prints & products...

I made this artwork on a dark winter's day to take me to a feeling of sunshine and summer - hope it can take you, too, on a journey through nature to sunny days...

In the language of flowers, the sunflower means adoration - and its beauty is well matched by the stunning peacock butterfly!
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My art is all hand-drawn with pens and pencils, and then put together digitally - here's how I made it...

I'm very excited to introduce you to my new collection of four Butterflies & Flowers artworks with a Celtic art style...

I've been working on these for the last few weeks and have really enjoyed creating artworks that feel so much like sunshine and summer, with beautiful colours and sensuous swirls.

​I hope you love them too...

Enchanting Celtic owl art - art prints, homewares, T-shirts, accessories, tech-cases and more...

The beautiful owl is one of the oldest of the animals of the world in the Celtic tradition - a bird of wisdom with connections to the Otherworld... 

She is also associated with the 'old woman' or 'crone' aspect of the Triple Goddess figure of Celtic myth and legend and can be present with us in times of ending or darkness...

I created my Celtic Owl artwork digitally from pen drawings and ink paintings... here's what happened...