New ink drawings on wood panels are going up soon at the Haven Cafe, in Newhaven.
This is my latest dipping ink drawing drawn onto wood panels. I have made several now of a very local area of Newhaven, to be displayed in a lovely cafe which I have had my art in for 10 years.
The Haven is a local institution which has been serving great breakfasts to Leithers for over 10 years. Pop in and see my art and that of other local artists today.
Below is a scanned in digital version of the above sketch which I added a colour gradient to on the computer. This image featured in this week’s WhereArtI Quiz.
Nature at its best as spring flowers begin to pop up all around.
Beautiful brightly coloured tulips springing in our garden just now. I think the sudden downpours and fleeting bursts of warm sunshine are really suiting the spring flowers.
These ones we have cut to bring the outside indoors. One of my final 100 flowers in 100 days project I have been painting over at MyWeddingSketcher. I’m almost there now but admit to taking a few more days as my other wedding work picks up again.
If you would like to know more about my live wedding sketching just let me know and I will email some details and examples.
A trip to the museum is always fun but now holds fond memories too.
It’s been a pretty wet Easter break here in Edinburgh. And we like many others found our way to the National Museum of Scotland with the kids. We are so lucky to have this educational, entertaining and dry venue available for free.
We have been coming here since before the Sketcher Twins could walk. I remember they loved the sensory musical room with the Chinese dragon and the dinosaur dog room upstairs. Umpteen coffee and snack breaks between running about chasing toddlers I remember before that coming here and watching the fish swim around the grand hall.
This time we were there to see pottery from hundreds of years ago to inspire our own crafty creations back home.
There is always something new but I like seeing the familiar too. Saying hello to Dolly and marvelling at the printing press, oh and the Isle of Lewis chess set! So much to see, but I was very sad when the mini disappeared!
Just now the Science Festival is on and our two now big kids enjoyed making robots and testing them out.
With the Twin’s birthday in early March, mine late February and then my wife Joanne’s tomorrow this is definitely birthday season for us. Being pretty creative we like to make our own cards and banners and this sketch is from early on Sunday morning when Zoe is making a last minute banner for Joanne’s birthday. I love to capture these everyday moments if I can, like a snap shot but a sketch holds so much more of a memory for me than a photo. I look at an old sketch of the kids and can remember the moment and the feeling as I drew it. Sketch your day and start a little book of drawings you can keep in the living room ready to go.
A grey day in the city but a walk through the centre inspired this sketch from the Mound. Loving the angles of perspective here and I have always wanted to draw this wonderful 3D map of Edinburgh.
This bronze 3D map by sculptor David Westby was I believe made for visually impaired people to ‘see the city through touch’ and was commissioned by the council and Marks and Spencers.
I love to see young children feeling their way around the streets, just like our two did when they were wee.
Flooding seemingly everywhere today, non stop raining on the morning walk around Inverleith Park. I think a few commuters may return to find their motors in a pond!
Love this wee doogie following its owner through the rain 🙂
We had a creative Sunday recycling old magazines and making new artworks, including this textured highland cow.
I really enjoyed trying something new and having to think slightly differently as I sourced the colours from all the photos in a few magazines. We sat around pritt sticking our scraps in quiet concentration, great fun and I love the texture and colours I achieved on this illustration.
The trouble is though that now I quite like it then I think maybe I should do six Scottish animals and make a range of gift cards! Maybe a squirrel, a stag – what else?!
Inspired by a friends timeline photo of their son on the beach, I just loved the composition and feeling of fun and freedom in the image.
Ink pen on a watercolour pad with a little colour added for the sky. Simple. I loved the photo, it took me back to playing on the beach, balancing along a log and running free!
I put the sketch in a mount and sent it to the parent. I love looking back at sketches like this of my two when they were little, I find sketches hold more of a memory than a photo in some ways. More of a rounded experience memory.
If you would like one of you photos sketched like this then get in touch at contact@edinburghsketcher.com
As the snow may be here soon I thought I would share this sketch I made just over a year ago. I forgot to add it to my website and to the Etsy page so now I have rectified that, and signed prints can be bought via the link below.
The drawing was made with black india ink and a brush pen. I enjoyed being restricted to a single colour, you can see the layers of ink in the tree branches as they overlap each other and create darker and light shades.
The prints are on lovely watercolour paper, each one is signed and mounted and then enclosed in a protective sleeve. I have three sizes available at the shop below.
A quick one from the is morning as I discovered one of our cats curled up in my jacket. I guess I’m working from home then! I didn’t want to disturb her so drew this quick ink sketch of her having a wash.
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