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Today's cut-up fest, inspired by the works of Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick.

One for the blood moon.

A tribute to Leith in Edinburgh, a place that never stops inspiring me for allsorts of reasons.

With thanks (again) to endless listens of Devendra Banhart and other awesome folk like himself...heheh.

Well, it all had to start somewhere didn’t it?

Who needs a coloring book, if you can doodle yourself and then color :-)

Finished this today in urban sketching. View from my backyard with Edinburgh tenements and a back corner of Fountainbridge library. Mixed media on A4 (pencil, watercolour pencil, brush pen, posca markers, white ink and conte pastel). I always end up mixing lots of media these days :O

mixed media on A4. Did this in the National Museum of Scotland

Here are some figure drawing images from last year that I think turned out well. These are all quickish poses, 20 mins max.

This is an old Formula 3 race car built by Joseph Potts ltd, Lanarkshire, in 1952. They have it in the National Museum of Scotland, where I drew this a couple of weeks ago as a part of Urban Sketchers meetup (as it’s too cold to go outside yet). This is pretty mixed media: pencil, watercolour pencil, white gouache and some acrylic markers. Drawn on spot.

Today’s urban sketching effort. I tried to capture light coming through windows at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. Posca markers, brush pens and water soluble pencil on brown A4

Water soluble pencils on A4. I did this as a part of Urban Sketching meetup in the spring. Drawn on location in about an hour.

An urban sketch I did earlier this year. Pencil and white ink on coloured A4

Conte on coloured paper, A4. Urban sketching earlier this year.

An urban sketching thingie from October. Drawn in about an hour as a part of Edinburgh Urban Sketchers meetup. Conte on A4.

Watercolour pencils and white acrylic on A4. Drawn from the bust at the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.

Markers on A3. All the Young Nudes. 20 mins.

Markers on A3 paper, 20-minute pose

Markers on A3 paper, 20-minute pose

Markers on A3 paper, 20-minute pose

Markers on A3. All The Young Nudes.

Markers on A3 paper (model: Hayley Whittingham: www.hayleywhittingham.com)

More Edinburgh with lots of colored pencil and pen and fingernail

In Edinburgh with lots of colored pencil and pen.

Edinburgh Museum masks. Felt marker and pen

In Edinburgh