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Cathryn Worrell
@cathrynworrell.bsky.social
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🎨 Artist, illustrator, lover of Moomins (she/her)
🍃 Navigating a creative life with chronic illness (ME/CFS)
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New today on my Patreon for all free and paid members. You can find me over at www.patreon.com/posts/sketch... #art #drawing #sketchbook #illustration
Image of a sketchbook and paints on a desk. The sketchbook is open to show watercolour illustrations across the double page spread. Overlaid text reads 'Sketchbook Prompt'.
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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A flip through of my recently filled sketchbook. If you want to see the full sketchbook tour and hear the story behind each drawing, head over to my Patreon. #sketchbooktour #sketchbookartist #draweveryday
July 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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There's a new sketchbook prompt and process video over on my Patreon and both are available to free subscribers. It would be lovely to have your support there. www.patreon.com/posts/131294... #artist #Sketchbook #PatreonCreator
June 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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New over on my Patreon this afternoon - a little process post of my tiny tree drawings, with a short video and some photos. www.patreon.com/posts/two-mi...
#drawing #PatreonCreator #Art #PenDrawing #trees
June 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Some tiny trees in my sketchbook. #PenDrawing #Sketchbook #Art #drawing
An open sketchbook on a desk showing some black line drawings of trees. Alongside is an orange pen, pencil sharpener, jar of pencils and a small bowl of pencil shavings.
June 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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I made this booklet with some drawing tips for my Patrons last month. Email subscribers will be getting a free sample to download on Monday. Joing the mailing list if you'd like to take a peek. cathrynworrell.com/signup #SketchbookArtist #Drawing #PatreonArtist
2 hands homding an A4 booklet cover entitled 'Let's Draw'. In the bakcground are mote oages from the booklet and some drawings in a sketchbook.
June 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Spotted on my afternoon stroll today. #butterfly
A red peacock butterfly sitting open-winged on parched, cracked, dry earth in the UK and surrounded by some patches of green grass.
May 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Hanging it out on my kitchen wall this evening. #moth
Smal beige moth with grey spots sitting on a white emulsioned interior wall.
May 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Hello. I'm Cathryn, a self-taught artist & illustrator in the UK. I love playing in sketchbooks & encouraging myself and others to embrace the wonkiness of our drawings on Patreon. No real BSky tips other than to explore starter packs and hashtags to find nice people to connect with. 😊
An open sketchbook, ceramic palette and blue handled paintbrush on a desk. The sketchbook is square. On the right hand page is a gouache self portrait of a white woman's face. She has light brown hair in a long bob, large round glasses and an off white top. The left hand page is hand lettered with the date in blue paint: 30th July 2024. A greeting card featuring a watercolour illustration of a small rabbit in profile, seated and facing the right hand edge of the card. The bunny is wearing a Fair Isle style sweater in shades of red, yellow, blue, white and grey. The card stands on top of a kraft paper envelope on a table. The tip of a beige plastic ballpoint pen is visible on the right hand edge of the image. In the back left area of the image is a mushroom sticker sheet. A small open sketchbook, held open on a table with 2 strips of turquoise washi tape. The right hand page of the sketchbook shows a black and white line drawing of a shop front. The shop sign reads 'Watch Service Centre'. Two hands holding open a medium sized sketchbook on a light blue/grey background. The sketchbook shows a mixed media painting of a landscape across the double page spread, with grass in the foreground, some fence posts; sea in the mid ground and hazy blue hills in the distance. Above the sketchbook is a pencil, dark grey wax crayon and a white pastel
May 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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From this morning on my desk. I love cats but am always disappointed with my drawings of them so I'm challenging myself to draw the difficult thing. #SketchbookArtist #OnMyDesk #WomenWhoDraw
An ooen sketchbook alongside a pencil, pencil sharpener and a small white bowl of pencil shavings. The sketchbook shows a series of six pencil sketches of cats. Two on the left and four on the right hand page. Each one is inside a hand drawn frame.
May 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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I really enjoyed Jo Blaker's draw along session this week. We drew from her photos of Dentdale.

I felt really frustrated at one point so I switched from mixed media to watercolours, which I'm so much more familiar with, and sketching immediately felt so much easier.
#InMySketchbook
Double page sketchbook spread showing two small watercolour landscape sketches. On the left is a view down a lane with trees on the left and a house at the end. On the right hand page is a view over a wall of a hill with a large knobbly tree on the right and a stone house on top of the hill next to another tree. A small watercolour palette, brush and paper towel sit above the sketchbook. A double page sketchbook spread showing two very rough pencil sketches. On the left hand page is a small sketch of a hillside with a house in the centre and some trees. The right hand page shows an angled view down a lane with a wall on the left and a row of cottages behind. There's a tree on the left of the sketch and some trees and hills behind the cottages. A paintbrush, watercolour palette and paper towel sit above the sketchbook.
May 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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In case you didn't know, I'm offering a discount on the first month of paid membership of my Patreon this week. The offer ends tomorrow - it would be lovely to see you there. Here are some sketchbook pages I've shared in Patreon posts over the past few years. #SketchbookArtist #PatreonCreator #pwme
The right hand page of a sketchbook showing two landscape paintings of the same scene - one is in the winter and one in the spring. On the left hand edge of the image, the edge of the left hand sketchbook page is visible with two more landscape paintings. There are crayons and pens on the desk next to this sketchbook A sketchbook on a desk alongside a few tubes of gouache, a thin paintbrush and a ruler. The sketchbook spread is painted in dark blue with white, pink and pale blue marks to suggest stars in a night sky. A hand holding the right hand side of an open sketchbook. The sketchbook spread is painted in bright pink with white translucent circles of varying sizes on top. Some of the circles have dark pink lines radiating out from the centre, similar to the spokes on a bicycle wheel. Part of a landscape orientated sketchbook spread showing watercolour illustrations of birds eggs. Two paintbrushes, a metal clamp clip, a pencil and a watercolour palette are on the desk above the sketchbook.
May 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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About once a month I share a collection of photos on Patreon, documenting what I've been doing and making. The latest one went up this afternoon - take look at: www.patreon.com/posts/127911... #ArtistsWithChronicIllness #SketchbookArtist #PatreonCreator
A view across a grassy field with green trees on the far side of the field. The silhouette of the person taking the photo is visible in the lower left corner.
May 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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On my desk today. Swatching colours to use in a little project I'm working on. #ArtistsWithME #WomenWhoDraw #SketchbiokArtist
A set of watercolours, a mop brush, a jar of water and a large sheet of paper on a desk seen from overhead. The paper shows nine large paint swatches in red, green, orange, yellow, off white, blue and brown.
April 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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This was a drawing that I started and almost immediately wondered what I'd got myself into. I'm hlad I persevered. There'll be a process video on Patreon later this week too. #SketchbookArtist #InMySketchbook #ArtistsWithChronicIllness #pwme
An open sketchbook on a table showing a detailed black ink line drawing of a bird's nest with 2 speckled eggs in the centre. A fineliner pen sits above the sketchbook and the tip of a paintbrush is visible at the top edge of the photo.
April 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Wishing everyone a peaceful weekend. #NatureIllustration #ArtistsWithChronicIllness #EasterBunny
2 greeting cards standing in front of a soft yellow backdrop. One card shows an illustration of a rabbit in profile wearing a Fair Isle sweater in a white background. The other card shows an illustration of painted wildflowers on a green background. In front of the cards are 2 postcards laying flat. One has a floral illustration and the other shows illustrations of some colourful moths. There's also a pink Bic pen and a flat grey pebble.
April 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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There's a new video on my Patreon today. It might be just the nudge you need to make a little drawing this Easter weekend 🐣 www.patreon.com/posts/126798... #ArtJournaling #SketchbookArtist #ArtistsWithChronicIllness
Video thumbnail of two hands drawing in a sketchbook. The pages show a series of drawings of eggs. A water jar and a watercolour palette are visible at the top edge of the image.
April 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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The sun's shining and I've been editing my latest email which will be going out to subscribers later today. If you'd like to hear from me and peek inside my sketchbook, hop on my email list before 4pm UK time today. cathrynworrell.com/signup #artist #sketchbook #emailnewsletter
A bunch of bright yellow daffodils in a large glass jar of water, sitting on a shiny, dark grey surface with a blurred out view from a window behind them. To the left there are some beige tiles on the wall. To the right is the edge of a plant pot with a blue rim sitting on a terracotta coloured plastic saucer.
April 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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I'm painting flowers in my latest Patreon video. Take a look here: www.patreon.com/posts/lets-d... #sketchbook #CreativeHabit #SketchbookPrompt #Artist
March 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I'm an artist & illustrator and most of my work starts out as a drawing or painting in my sketchbook. cathrynworrell.com
2 hands flipping through a large sketchbook. On the left page 2 small landscape paintings are visible, showing a beach and a sky with tree branches. As the pages turn an ink drawing of 5 feathers can be seen as well as the bottom portion of a grassy landscape on a further page.
March 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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If you need a gentle nudge to create something, tomorrow I'm going to be sharing a new sketchbook prompt for free on Patreon.

Paid members will also get to see a video of my painting process on Sunday.

It would be lovely to have you join me over there! #sketchbook #drawing #pwme #CreativeHabit
A small corner of a sketchbook page showing paintings of a few pink flowers on a soft yellow background. The sketchbook sits on a pale grey cutting mat alongside a small dish of pencil shavings, 2 tubes of acrylic gouache, a paper towel, washi tape and a red pen.
March 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I've been making sourdough for the first time since the first lockdown. It's been going well (good bread) but what are your favourite (and simple) discard recipes? #sourdough #baking
A jam jar with a red gingham-patterned lid and some white elastic around the lower part of the jar. Inside the jar is a bubbly sourdough starter which has risen above the elastic marker.
March 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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I didn't sleep much last night but on the plus side I got to see and hear this this morning. #DawnChorus #pwme #sunrise #MorningView
March 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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I've not done a huge amount of drawing recently but this is one of the sketchbook pages I shared in my latest Patreon post. My plan is to slowly fill the whole double page spread with these mushroom drawings. #ArtYear #Sketchbook #Drawing #pwme #WomenWhoDraw #wip
A partially filled sketchbook spread showing detailed ink link drawings of oyster mushrooms. The sketchbook sits alongside some coloured pencils, washi tape and an orange pen.
March 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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In December I had to close my Etsy shop because of new EU regulations. It's open again now and if you'd like a discount on my new prints, hop on my email list before Monday. cathrynworrell.com/signup #ArtPrints #Artist #Illustration #ArtYear
Framed art print of an illustration of nine brightly coloured beetles.
March 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM