Colouring Without Borders

There’s something about sketching in the open air that feels a bit like breaking the rules. Maybe it’s the grass under your feet instead of a desk. Or the fact that birdsong is your playlist, and there’s no undo button for a breeze that lifts your paper. Drawing outdoors isn’t about making something perfect — it’s about letting the world draw with you.

This week, we’re embracing free-form creativity: the kind that wanders, that doodles on the margins, that doesn’t need to stay within any frame (literal or otherwise). Whether it’s a coloured pencil in your pocket or a pen in your bag, you’re invited to take your tools somewhere green, or golden, or grassy, and see what happens.

Start with the view from a park bench. Or the way light hits the side of a tree. Sketch the outline of a leaf you found. Scribble the curve of your coffee cup on a café table. Let it be loose, light, and a little wild.

This isn’t about making art for anyone else. It’s about tuning in. It’s about slowing down long enough to notice. It’s about catching the way a shadow falls on a pavement crack or how the wind turns the corner of your sketchbook page.

This week, we want to remind you: 

You don’t need a studio to be an artist. 

You don’t need rules to be creative. 

And you definitely don’t need to stay inside the lines.

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Try This

• Take your sketchbook on your next walk — draw what catches your eye.

• Bring one colouring page outdoors and colour it in natural light. Notice how it feels different.

• Start a “no-pressure (nature) page”: a collection of textures, colours, and shapes you see outside.