I’m not the only one using a bicycle to get around the city. This is a row of bikes outside the University buildings in Chambers Street. I’m liking the pencil but may go over in pen to see the difference later.
Category Archives: Daily Sketch
Outside St Giles
The Royal Mile was busy today, great for trying to include people in my sketches. Tourists are starting to arrive in Edinburgh now, families gather outside the registry office and entertainers try to capture the attention of passers by.
Conversations in many languages fill the air as a busker plays Bob Marley songs on the guitar.
Museum on the Mile
The Museum of Edinburgh, on the Royal Mail gives a great insight into life from a bygone time in Edinburgh’s Old Town. Trinkets, furniture and room set-ups bring the museum to life, costumes for the kids help fuel their imagination. Just being in the seemingly untouched building is fascinating, the rooms getting smaller with every flight of creaking steps.
Free to get in, or as I did today, you can simply take in the lovely exterior from one of the benches opposite.
A wee kiss
This a recently commissioned illustration of a customers two nieces. Taken from a photograph the illustration captures a ‘wee kiss’ between the two. Drawn in black ink the image looks striking in a matching black wooden frame. I can supply works framed or unframed, please get intouch for more information. contact@www.edinburghsketcher.com
Ink on cartridge paper, 210mmx210mm. January 2011
Jo and the double bump
Joanne and the double bump surfing the net on her ipod. Not long before we meet the new members of the family now.
Thanks for your thoughts on ‘edinburgh’ today, I have lots of ideas for future sketches now.
Well meant
I sit here eating dairymilk and drawing a bowl of fruit, something’s not right there!
Watching the game
Without Sky or Freesat I’m forced to watching the England football game online, at ITV.com.
The first twenty minutes were great with a goal a piece but since then it has slowed down now, too many substitutions. – Scrap that, Ashley Young has just made it 2-1 for England!
Family walk
This portrait of a family walk near Mallaig, in the West Highlands of Scotland is from my own holiday a few years ago. My wife in the background, her mother and father walking into the foreground. The painting holds fond memories of the holiday and the beautiful scenery in that part of Scotland.
Oil on canvas board 500mm x 400mm March 2008
Henrik Larsson
Remember him? Henrik Larsson with his trademark celebration for Celtic, this illustration was created in Adobe Illustrator.
‘Alfie’ in oils
An oil painting commission from a photo I took. If you require a painting I can come to you to take some photographs to work from, or if you have an image already I can use that.
Oil on wood panel, 360mm x 390mm