edinburgh

New sketchbook time! Onwards to new doodling-flavoured adventures... Keeping it simple to start things off (as is custom).

And that finishes things off with my current sketchbook! Here's to what the next one brings :)

A couple of beers, thoughts in my head about lockdown easing and Radiohead lingering in the background while I work = stuff like this.

Keeping one's head above the water in times of crisis...

Cats, space, and the usuals.

Aaaaaaaaaand, September is here. Let's make this autumn a creative one...

Time and space adventurings.

Something about mermaids today! Got to love those fishy tailed sorts. :)

Rainy day assemblages.

Another episode of narwhal fever.

Definitely in need of an escape, methinks.

Island mentality.

Onwards to closure.

Kicking art blocks where it hurts, one step at a time.

Something simpler (on the surface at least).

Midnight flavoured motivation.

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

An ode to the seas, sailing and other malarkey relating to that theme.

For things that go bump in the night (and day).

Rainy day creative goings-on.

Breaking into July the way I know best.

New art supplies = the best excuse to get creative! Also, narwhals.

For all manner of mad monks.

All hearts are good ones (let's hope).

No idea what squid radio images look like, but here's something close.

Lockdown makes some of us forget what good times were like before the coronavirus reared it's nasty little head, so in response we dig down into our brains for times that really mattered.

In a funk, but getting out of it quick.

Much ado about the bullshit of relationships.

The name for this piece comes from a billboard I noticed as I was heading home from a shopping trip not too long ago, and it’s stuck with me ever since. Life in lockdown (needless to say) brings with it plenty of time for us all to learn and get creative in whatever way works best..

A narwhal! Because, why not?