After an early awakening at 4am the babies slept till 7.30 this morning. After another feed and a costume change this sketch finds them lying on their mat playing together. ~Now for my breakfast! And then out into the sunshine I think, what is everyone up to today in this glorious city?
No time…
No time for location sketching today, I am using my lunch hour to catch up on some work.
Instead here is a previous doodle of what todays lunch consisted of 🙂
Queen Mary’s Bath House
This little stone house lies just outside the gates of Holyroodhouse Palace, although at one time would of made up part of the boundary wall around the King’s Privy Garden. Although it is called the ‘Queen Mary’s Bath House’ most experts agree it was unlikely to have been used as such, more credible is that the building was a summer house or pavilion for the Royals.
Earlier today I posted my pencil and pen sketch but here I have cleaned it up and scanned it into the laptop, adding a touch of green to differentiate the building from the trees.
Quick glimpse –
– of todays sketch, the Bath House at Holyroodhouse Palace. More to come later, after I’ve cleaned it up and scanned it. Lovely day out there, I see ominous clouds in the distance though.
Three Flags
These three flags caught my eye as I walked up the mound in Edinburgh this morning. The building is home to HBOS and also one of Edinburgh’s more recent museums, the Museum on the Mound.
Free to enter and with a number of interesting bank related exhibits it’s a great place to take the kids, plus you can see what a million pounds in cash looks like.
The local seaside
A Sunday afternoon without mobiles and laptops was heaven, and where better to spend it than on the beach at Portobello. We had a great splash around with the twins at Portobello Swim Centre, albeit with a stressful changing episode (Edinburgh Leisure please note: having only 1 of the 3 family rooms available is not helpful)
I recommend the Beach House for a coffee and a delightful piece of home made cake, all with great views out to sea.
The sketch is the view from sitting on what appeared to be what was left of a washed away pier, like a thick wooden fence stretching out into the water.
A rainy Royal Mile
I was in town yesterday with my brother, his wife and their child, Raymond, seen here in the pram. The rain was relentless but it didn’t stop us having a great day looking around the Old Town.
We were watching a young busker here entertaining the crowd with a guitar, after which we headed down the Mile to the Museum of Childhood. It’s a great place for reminiscing and even better it’s free and dry! 🙂
More info on the museum here: http://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/Museum-of-Childhood.aspx
No sketch yet…
No sketch yet but in the mean time head on over to STV Edinburgh to see my weekly sketch column: http://local.stv.tv/edinburgh/news/21081-edinburgh-sketcher-weekly/
Victoria Street
Looking down from the walkway above Victoria Street you get a great view of the way the narrow street curves down from George IV Bridge to cobbled square of the Grassmarket. The brightly painted restaurants, pubs and shops make up a postcard image of Edinburgh’s old town. One sadly my mono sketch doesn’t do justice to.
The street was busy with tourists and awash with sunshine this afternoon.  I think I may of burnt my arm sketching this one 😉
Just a glimpse
They don’t all work out. This is a glimpse of the Castle through a housing estate from my journey to work.
This view caused me to stop my bike and pull out the pad. I liked the old of the castle with the new of the housing estate.
I’m not so pleased with the result, a little lob sided, a little messy and unfinished. But the daily sketch is what ever result I get that day, I’ll come back to draw this view another day, with a little more time.
