I am currently doing a six week drawing and mixed media course with Jane. Jane is a mixed media artist from the US. I have admired her work and enthusiasm for many years. I particularly like the way she abstracts elements from her daily sketches and uses them in her stitch work. This is the first weeks assignment: ‘Draw something from nature’. There are so many things to draw when you really look around. I decided upon the humble bottle brush as it has different stages of development on the one bush. A bug crawled out, so I drew him too!