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Keep calm and carry on.

It’s safe to say January feels like one of those 100 day months...

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.

Sometimes, my demons inspire me in a weird way.

Essential Wednesday winding down on my part.

Make art, not war!

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

I often hear music in my dreams. In this case, it was ‘Babylon’ by Oneohtrix Point Never (a.k.a. Daniel Lopatin, for those unaware). I had to respond in the best way possible of course!

Landscapes too good for some.

Not as apocalyptic as it looks or sounds! Inspired by a dream I had about committing a social faux-pas of the worst kind you could imagine.

My process in a nutshell, more or less!

Hello 2020! The madness resumes.

A mistake I’m sure we’ll all be able to relate to, heheheh.

The end of one sketchbook, with the beginning of another to arrive shortly!

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

Thinking ahead, as you do.

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

Even if it is (in my case at the least) just doodling away to the point of allsorts in the hopes it’ll make at least one person a) happy b) perked or c) amused, do good and be good in wake of the current shitstorms in the making. More for another day...

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.

Because two heads are better or worse than none.

Overheard the title for this while out with some friends this past weekend. Fun times so they were...

Friday night’s alright for creating...

If you see what I did here with the title then sharp eyes, you have...

I know it’s a little early to start thinking about the next decade, but I needed the inspiration...

For believers in everything spiritual and all that jazz.

Me and a few close friends in a cryptic nutshell.

Samhuinn thoughts and reflections...