Selling My Drawings

Drawing is very much a part of my life be that technical drawing with straight lines or freeform sketching to copy what I see. As a child, my drawings were just for me. Birds and animals came from my graphite tips where I copied images from books on rainy days. When I started working with wood I began technical drawing. It was a useful skill and one I needed for both reading drawings and plans and also making my own to convey realistic ideas to others. In my work and estimating costs to customers this has proved invaluable. I never bid on a job I didn't end up getting and that includes the two matching credenzas I designed for the White House in 2008.

When I wrote for woodworking magazines in the USA and the UK through the later decades I did all of my own drawings then too but where I enjoyed drawing all the more was for my books and blog writings. I've even used them on Facebook; when no picture was available for lack of a photo I simply pencilled in a sketch that worked.

I recently made a series of mirror frames for Sellers' Home which are now hung in the dining room and the hallway. I was pleased with the result and carried on 'after hours' making some personal and unique versions for a couple of cluster groupings of pictures I'd drawn and wanted to hang. I combined oak and walnut with a combination of long-grain and end- or block-grain to create a unique frame that showed handwork along with the hands in my drawings.

I decided to sell some copies of my own originals using woodworking hand tools and my own hands. The only place to purchase them from, just in case, is from our own Rokesmith Ltd site here: https://rokesmith.com/product/print-cabinet-scraper/

They have been professionally scanned from my personal sketchbooks and printed on Cotton Rag 300 gsm paper. The sketches are unframed and are UK A4 sized (210 x 297 mm/8.3 x 11.7 inches). Hopefully, you will make your own frame and hang it somewhere you like.