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Tigers in Morningside

New opportunities in Morningside as Paper Tiger stretches out a paw southwards.

There is a new bright and colourful addition to Morningside Road on the corner of Springvalley Gardens. Gift shop and Edinburgh destination Paper Tiger has been selling beautifully designed, unique and quirky gifts and stationary from the West End since 1981, and has now opened its third store in Morningside’s busy shopping district.

I remember visiting their West End shop, spending ages looking around the basement full of wonder and creativity. And I was so glad to become a stockist there when EdinburghSketcher took over my full time work almost ten years ago.

Now I am equally excited to have my gift cards and other printed items in Morningside. It is great news to see a local business doing well and I look forward to sketching more scenes of the Southside for the new shop.

https://www.papertiger.co.uk/

West End sketching in the sunshine

Last weekend I had a workshop with gift card and stationary shop, and Edinburgh institution; Paper Tiger.

I have run workshop tours from the Stafford Street shop before but not at the shorter time of 90 minutes so I was a bit nervous of how I would fit in my usual amount of drawings.

I needn’t of worried though as we had a plenty of time to start a few sketches and for me to pass on a few of my tips and tricks to get people started.

The group of around 12 people all created some great work and also we had a quick shot of the watercolours and waterbrushes which I usually take around with me.

Here are some photos from the afternoon and if you would like to join me on the next one, which we will be theming around creating bespoke Christmas cards then check the link below to see if there are places available.

Plus each ticket comes with a goody bag form Paper Tiger including a Moleskine sketchbook so you can keep drawing after the event!

Moleskine Christmas Card Workshop with Edinburgh Sketcher ‘Sketch Your Own Christmas Cards’ – 6th October 12.30pm – £25.00

Moleskine Christmas Card Workshop with Edinburgh Sketcher ‘Sketch Your Own Christmas Cards’ – 6th October 2.30pm – £25.00