Tag Archives: watercolour

The WhereArtI Quiz

Where have I sketched this week?

Bonus points for naming the sculptor celebrating a birthday.

Leave your answer as a comment below, your entry will not show up until I reveal the answer in 24 hours. I will pick a random winner from all correct entries to win an Edinburgh Castle tote bag.

Keep an eye on my facebook and twitter feeds for clues if they are needed, and remember you can also see my weekly competition in the printed version of the Edinburgh Evening News each Monday.

Keep looking up and noticing the beauty in the everyday, you never know where I will be sketching next!

My Edinburgh sketched merchandise and quality prints are available on my Etsy shop and I am available for commissions too.

Email me at contact@www.edinburghsketcher.com for more details.

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Keep up to date with my sketches as I share a more personal look at what I get up to and what I have planned, with competitions, offers and news about upcoming live events and workshops. 

Scottish gallery of modern art

The beautiful and inspirational Modern One

I love a Sunday walk around the modern art gallery, inspiring artwork, manicured grounds and delicious food in their cafe.

This view I created for a commission shows the reflection of the grand entrance and also the Martin Creed piece, ‘Everything is going to be alright’ which reassures me every time I see it.

Creed has said of his art that it is ‘50% about what I make and 50% about what other people make of it’. And I do connect to this piece, and remember walking past it a few times during lock down and hoping it to be true.

I would say that all art is 50/50 and when I draw something it is usually initially for me but that is only half the story, I am making art to be seen and hope that viewers connect to my work in ways I haven’t thought of.

Scottish Gallery Of Modern Art website

Sunday walks to Stockbridge

A memory of a perfect day

There is nothing better than a family walk to somewhere warm for a relaxing catch up over lunch. A favourite walk of ours is into Stockbridge, through Inverleith Park or the Botanics and then a coffee and cake before looking around a few shops and then back home to watch a film on the sofa.

This view from the road that leads from into Stockbridge from the park, just past the duck pond. You can see St Stephens Church in the distance, with the sky reflected in the water of leith below the bridge.

Happy days. This one I decided to get printed as a limited giclee print. Beautiful prints that are undistinguishable from the original and I have had 20 made at 9×5 inches and each one will be signed and numbered, and available via the link below.

Buy one of twenty beautiful prints of this sketch here.

WhereArtI Quiz 8th January

Where have I sketched this week?

Beautiful Victorian ironwork in the heart of the city.

Leave your answer as a comment below, your entry will not show up until I reveal the answer in 24 hours. I will pick a random winner from all correct entries to win a prize, which this week is a Victoria Street tote.

Keep an eye on my facebook and twitter feeds for clues if they are needed, and remember you can also see my weekly competition in the printed version of the Edinburgh Evening News each Monday.

Keep looking up and noticing the beauty in the everyday, you never know where I will be sketching next!

My Edinburgh sketched merchandise and high quality prints are available on my Etsy shop and I am available for commissions too.

Email me at contact@www.edinburghsketcher.com for more details.

Sign up to my monthly newsletter.

Keep up to date with my sketches as I share a more personal look at what I get up to and what I have planned, with competitions, offers and news about upcoming live events and workshops. 

WhereArtI Quiz 11th December

Where have I sketched this week?

I am just about to enter which inspirational Edinburgh destination?

Leave your answer as a comment below, your entry will not show up until I reveal the answer in 24 hours. I will pick a random winner from all correct entries to win a prize, which this week is a set of three Edinburgh Christmas cards.

Keep an eye on my facebook and twitter feeds for clues if they are needed, and remember you can also see my weekly competition in the printed version of the Edinburgh Evening News each Monday.

Keep looking up and noticing the beauty in the everyday, you never know where I will be sketching next!

My Edinburgh sketched merchandise and high quality prints are available on my Etsy shop and I am available for commissions too.

Email me at contact@www.edinburghsketcher.com for more details.

Sign up to my monthly newsletter.

Keep up to date with my sketches as I share a more personal look at what I get up to and what I have planned, with competitions, offers and news about upcoming live events and workshops. 

Sunshine on Glasgow

A flying visit to Glasgow this week as MyWeddingSketcher

A midweek wedding at the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow on St Vincent Street. What a stunning building, and really pretty part of the city, just up the hill and away from the busy shops.

The wedding party had photos taken in Blythswood Square and below is a sketch of the college. Great architecture and such a mixture of buildings in Edinburgh that I love the random beauty, I must go back soon.

Before I left I made a quick sketch from the Buchanan Galleries as the sun came down on the famous shopping high street.

WhereArtI Quiz 20th November

Where have I sketched this week?

An well know Edinburgh door but where does it lead?

Leave your answer as a comment below, your entry will not show up until I reveal the answer in 24 hours. I will pick a random winner from all correct entries to win a prize, which this week is a set of three Edinburgh Christmas cards.

Keep an eye on my facebook and twitter feeds for clues if they are needed, and remember you can also see my weekly competition in the printed version of the Edinburgh Evening News each Monday.

Keep looking up and noticing the beauty in the everyday, you never know where I will be sketching next!

My Edinburgh sketched merchandise and high quality prints are available on my Etsy shop and I am available for commissions too.

Email me at contact@www.edinburghsketcher.com for more details.

Sign up to my monthly newsletter.

Keep up to date with my sketches as I share a more personal look at what I get up to and what I have planned, with competitions, offers and news about upcoming live events and workshops. 

WhereArtI Quiz 13th November

Where have I sketched this week?

An iconic building sketched this time in india ink.

Leave your answer as a comment below, your entry will not show up until I reveal the answer in 24 hours. I will pick a random winner from all correct entries to win a prize, which this week is a set of three Edinburgh Christmas cards.

Keep an eye on my facebook and twitter feeds for clues if they are needed, and remember you can also see my weekly competition in the printed version of the Edinburgh Evening News each Monday.

Keep looking up and noticing the beauty in the everyday, you never know where I will be sketching next!

My Edinburgh sketched merchandise and high quality prints are available on my Etsy shop and I am available for commissions too.

Email me at contact@www.edinburghsketcher.com for more details.

Sign up to my monthly newsletter.

Keep up to date with my sketches as I share a more personal look at what I get up to and what I have planned, with competitions, offers and news about upcoming live events and workshops. 

WhereArtI Quiz 6th November

Where have I sketched this week?

A big door with a vital job, but where am I?

Leave your answer as a comment below, your entry will not show up until I reveal the answer in 24 hours. I will pick a random winner from all correct entries to win a prize, which this week is a set of three Edinburgh Christmas cards.

Keep an eye on my facebook and twitter feeds for clues if they are needed, and remember you can also see my weekly competition in the printed version of the Edinburgh Evening News each Monday.

Keep looking up and noticing the beauty in the everyday, you never know where I will be sketching next!

My Edinburgh sketched merchandise and high quality prints are available on my Etsy shop and I am available for commissions too.

Email me at contact@www.edinburghsketcher.com for more details.

Sign up to my monthly newsletter.

Keep up to date with my sketches as I share a more personal look at what I get up to and what I have planned, with competitions, offers and news about upcoming live events and workshops. 

Post Box Hues

A red letter box mixes with the yellows and oranges of the falling leaves.

A beautiful day in the capital today, so lucky it’s a Sunday. One of my favourite postboxes here in it is autumn look. I have a lovey photo of it covered in snow somewhere. 

Always my favourite pieces of street furniture postboxes provide a welcome splash of colour in my sketches. And also to me personally evoke a feeling of communication, friendship and hope!

Enjoy your weekend.