Academy

Lessons to print, and books to draw in.

Practice sheets for adults and for children, and picture books a child illustrates. One sitting each, and every lesson names the materials it needs.

Foxbristle Academy

For anyone learning
to draw and paint.

One page, one idea, twenty minutes. Drawing first, because it is where painting starts — then color, mixing and paint handling.

Drawing Trees
Color and paint handling
  • Mixing a grey that is not mud In the studio.

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Foxbristle Cubs

For children, told
as a story.

The same lessons in pictures and about nine words a page, with a fox to draw them for. Ten minutes each, one pencil.

Fox’s Winter · six sheets
Cub Illustrators
  • A Winter for Fox A picture book the child illustrates and signs.
    Coming winter 2026
A Winter for Fox — the cover, with a blank line under ‘Illustrated by’
Filmed in the studio · no sound
In the studio

Flowers going in.

Twenty seconds from a longer session. The sheets slow it all down, a step at a time, on paper, with one pencil.

How the lessons work

One idea at a time.

One sheet, one idea

Each one fixes a single thing that makes a drawing look wrong.

Drawn, not described

You copy a picture, not a paragraph. The words name what your hand is doing.

The materials are named

Every sheet says what it wants — a 2B, a stick of vine charcoal, paper with a little tooth.

Short enough to finish

Twenty minutes for the Academy sheets, ten for the Cubs ones.

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Where to go from here.

New sheets go out as they are published.

No schedule, no newsletter machinery. Email us and we will send the next one.