Dec 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
Day four of the drawing project is Lavender – a quick line drawing of a sprig growing close to the door. It’s New Year’s Eve and we are closing on 2020. Enough said. It’s been a while since my last post but my attention has been elsewhere. We...
Jun 11, 2020 | Lanark Heritage, Lanimer Day, Sketch book, Uncategorized, urban sketching
Roofscapes above the High Street when viewed from inside the Tolbooth. Today, Thursday 11th June 2020, would have been Lanimer Day, a celebration and a week-long town party that has taken place in Lanark since 1892. You can read more about the history of the...
Apr 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
I draw my street scenes in waterproof ink directly on to fancy Italian paper (Fabriano Artistico cotton archival quality paper, 300 grams cold pressed), which I buy in a ten metre roll. It’s a gorgeous quality paper and expensive. I have the street all mapped...
Oct 15, 2019 | Architectural drawings, Eccleshall, Gallery at 12, Pen and ink drawing, Uncategorized
Sitting outside Cowling and Wilcox drawing Holloway Road, North London, summer 2016 The more streets that I drew, the clearer I became on what it was all about. It’s simple and selfish – I only draw the streets that are meaningful to me in some way. Half a...
Nov 14, 2018 | Sketch book, Uncategorized, Whisky
Have you ever tried to pin down where a new story begins? In my world the best stories begin with a sketch. Take this one from 2014, part of the very first series of Sketchbook Skool ‘Beginning’ Four years later and it’s second nature to draw a few...
Jun 28, 2017 | Architectural Drawing, Building conservation, Eccleshall Architecture, Uncategorized
Back to Eccleshall for the sixth street in the ongoing series. When I began Drawing the Street, it was with the intention of adding morsels of history to the buildings which I draw. These are personal histories or facts that I record on my archive blog Drawing the...
