Archives: Drawings

By Luke Foster “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”  Francis of Assisi I love this quote by Saint Francis and when I have a gloomy day, I draw him and his sunbeam drives away my shadows. Its Sunday and I slept in until 9am after an early night and I decided […]

“To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels, and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.” Maria Montessori […]

“Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make,” David Hockney.  I have been experimenting with my drawing style and subject matter for decades and thought one day I would reach my mature style but now I realise reaching an end point with my drawing creativity shall […]

“Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.”  – Kahlil Gibran  I love this quote by the Lebanese mystic writer Kahlil Gibran and it reminded me of trips to countries where it was snowing and everything looks beautiful in the snow. Kindness in my books equates with strength. These drawings are on watercolour […]

“All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.”  Salman Khan I had an early night last night and got up at six and made a decaf and started drawing and […]

I went to the local library yesterday to get DVDs to watch on my big screen tv and while I was there, I quickly looked in the art book section and found a big book titled “The Renaissance Portrait From: Donatello to Bellini.” Straight away I realised I wanted to do a series of Artline […]

Hands and Feet Drawings With: Journal Style Text I searched and found the following quote when I Googled feet quotes. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the […]

Sunday, 8 June 2025 His Holiness Pope Leo XLV  Casa Santa Marta. 00120 Vatican City. Italy From: Luke Foster Dear Leo, I am an Australian artist and writer and I have an art project where I give my art to all who help me and those I respect for example the community transport workers who […]

Yesterday and today I did these watercolour drawings on the back of cut up brown grocery bags. It’s simple text and portraits of my favourite saints: Mary MacKillop and Saint Francis of Assisi. The watercolours were given to me by a Korean artist I did a show with in Australia years ago and she is […]

This is some of the thousands of drawings a day project I have and I go to the post office once a fortnight at least and give to everyone else who helps me particularly community transport drivers. I think I’ve given away at least three thousand drawings over the past four years.

These drawings and photo are for a new limited edition zine that I hope to share with galleries and friends and others. It is basically a study of the female and male Catholic saints and others who I consider saints such as my late mother Marie. I am not sure how many copies I will […]

From my Ten Drawings a Day Project Recent Drawings Recently I stopped drawing myself continually and trying to have an equal number of women and men in my drawings. After I stopped drawing my-self I realised that I need to draw women as much as men and I did that sometimes in these drawings particularly […]

“When you are grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not out of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people and respectful to all people. The grateful world is a world of joyful people.” Dalai Lama This is […]

“Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.” Bjork I have been doing these drawings the last few days for a sort of fun collaboration with Bjork from a distance. I love Bjork’s […]

These are a few photos of collages I have made over the past two weeks. I am using recycled cardboard boxes and torn up old drawings from sketchbooks, yellow envelope drawings brown paper bags and white watercolour paper. I have been moving through a lot of trauma and the drawings have been quite cathartic. Hopefully […]

“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.” Henri Cartier-Bresson This is a small selection of drawings I have done during my residency that is coming to an end next week. I shall not explain them to much as they are images with text so they are pretty self-explanatory. They are mainly concerned with […]

These drawings were made in a sketchbook in 1992 while I was studying a bachelor of fine arts at COFA in Sydney. Ideas were inspired by the books and movies and artists who interested me such as the movie Bladerunner and music and artist including my first interest in Joseph Beuys. My drawing style then […]

by Luke Foster “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them,humanity cannot survive.” “Our prime purpose in this life is to helpothers. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”His Holiness the Dalai LamaI have been studying the teachings of the Dalai Lama online over thelast few months and created these drawings […]

For around the last eight years I have been in snail mail contact with the American clown doctor Patch Adams. He constantly writes that having wonderful friends is part of the key to having a healthy and happy life. I always knew that my friends were fantastic but not in such a profound way that […]

This series of drawings has been made into an artist book and  DVD drawing slide show. Made in 2018 the title comes from the idea of the flaneur. The idea of the flaneur is very enticing. It means sauntering and soaking up society.

This series of drawings was made mainly during two studio residencies at the Big Ci in Bilpin in the Blue Mountains in October 2020 and March 2021. The residency was a very social time with other creatives and the site is nestled in a beautiful natural environment. The highlight of the residencies was the chance […]

In March 2018 I undertook a studio residency at the Big Ci in Bilpin in the Blue Mountains. There was a great community of artists and Rae and Yuri who ran the space. I made a series of large and small drawings revolving around my experiences there and ideas of community and spiritualism.

I started this project at the beginning of July in 2021 and now in mid August have around 400 drawings. They are on an array of different types of paper including graph paper, lined paper, canvas paper, watercolour paper and small envelopes. They are mainly on a4 paper. They are made with black artline pens […]

This book of drawings was made in May 2017 while backpacking in Europe.A flaneur is someone who is immersed in café culture and watches and records society in motion. While in Venice the highlight was visiting the Venice Biennale. My favourite artist was Kiki Smith who made very sensitive figurative drawings on tissue paper.

In May 2016 I went on a backpacking holiday in New York City. I stayed in Manhattan, Harlem and Brooklyn. I brought drawing paper and drew every day for the first week until I ran out of paper that I use to make books of drawings. I use high quality A4 watercolour drawing paper. I […]