Jan 10, 2021 | Pen and ink drawing, Sketching, Uncategorized
The ground is hard, the air is cold and the year is brand new but I like to think of January as a time to be sowing seeds – seeds of ideas for the year ahead. I may be one of a minority who loves January here in the Northern hemisphere but apart from the cold,...
Jun 21, 2020 | Scotland, Sketching
It’s almost two years since I began the whisky label marathon where I drew over 400 individual sketches of places in Scotland for Sansibar-Whisky’s bottling of a really tasty 1976 Speyside malt. Every sketch was of a place that I had been to and from...
Feb 28, 2020 | Sketchbook Skool, Sketching
There’s a wonderful art studio here in the Clyde Valley run by Susan McMillan . There’s always a variety of art classes and workshops so I’m delighted to have been invited to give a sketchbook demonstration during two of the six week drawing classes...
Oct 20, 2019 | Architectural Drawing, Lanark Heritage, Sketching
Dog Groomers and Turkish Barber…not to be confused This is West Port in Lanark, my new Scottish home town which I’m enjoying getting to know as I draw and share my work online. Since moving here last summer, I’ve drawn six Lanark streets, all of...
Apr 30, 2019 | Berlin, Sketching, Whisky
Great excitement for me here in the Clyde Valley to be invited to draw labels for Finest Whisky Deluxe’s special bottling of another respectable Speyside malt. These bottles are for the forthcoming whisky fair in Berlin and I’ve dedicated a new page to it...
Sep 17, 2017 | London streets, Sketch book, Sketching
Back to the London sketchbook. All trips to London start with a tea from Gourmet on Platform1, Stoke Station. Here are a few sketches which I made around the Hornsey Road which runs parallel to Holloway Road, drawn over several visits. On some of these trips, I enjoy...
