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

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

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

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

Acrylic and pen on canvas

Due to COVID-restrictions, Edinburgh urban sketchers have been sketching virtually in Catalonia using Google street view. Here’s one of my contributions. It’s somewhere in Amposta ... unfortunately, didn’t take note of the actual street :O Pencil, brush pens and posca on coloured A4.

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

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

Markers on A3. All The Young Nudes.

Various life drawings from 2019

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

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.

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

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.

Markers on A3 paper, 20-minute pose

Markers on A3 paper, 20-minute pose

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.

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

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

Markers on A3 paper, 20-minute pose

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

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