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Competition

WhereArtI Quiz – 13th March

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Where have I sketched this week?

Five lights, all on red. But can you tell me where I was stuck?

Leave your answer as a comment below, your entry will not show up until I reveal the answer. Get your answer in before 9am tomorrow morning and I will pick a random winner from all correct entries to win a prize.

This week’s prize is a set of six Edinburgh post cards, each featuring a sketched scene from the city.

My post cards can be bought online HERE

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!

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Icy reflections

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This mornings warm yup sketch is a view up Dundas street using my fountain pen and a postcard.

This mornings #mindfulsketching and a little warm up from the car. Reflections from the rising sun and braking traffic leads up to the mound and the spire of the Hub in the distance.

Using a fountain pen again today and the trouble with that is how the watercolour can make the ink run.

Although I quite like the blurred effect, once I learn to let go of the control and go with the flow 🙂

Daily Sketch

Rain falling on the windscreen in Edinburgh’s New Town

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RainonHanoverAs the rain continued to fall today I sketched from my car.

Sitting looking up towards Hanover Street and Goeorge Street I watched the traffic merging with the pipples of the rain falling down my windscreen.

Shortly after sketching this I realised the rain wasn’t going to stop so made a dash for my destination. I was delivering completed commissions all around Edinburgh, Christmas presents ready to be wrapped and hopefully open once the rain has stopped and the snow has fallen!

Sketch made in my car with ArtGecko SketchPad and new water brushes from Crafter’s Companion. 

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Driving rain

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TrafficRainOn the bus this morning and thoughts can’t help drifting to the missing 3 year old boy, Mikaeel Kular, last seen on Wednesday evening at his home in Drylaw, Edinburgh.

 

As I stare into the distance and hope for good news and Mikaeels safe return to his family I suddenly focus on the rain drops running down the number eight’s front window.

 

I remember from my media studies course about how on TV or in the movies bad news often comes with rain or storms, the ‘sympathetic atmosphere’. Thankfully the same rules don’t apply in real life, and I hope and prey that good news will emerge today and young Mikaeel will be found safe and sound.

 

The police have a dedicated number to call if you have any information: 0300 200 0200 

and website where you can find the latest information: http://www.scotland.police.uk/whats-happening/news/2014/january/206076/

 

Daily Sketch

Congestion

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Another sketch from my head, from my time in the Western hospital last week. This one to illustrate congestion on the roads.

Funnily enough it is congestion of another kind that is affecting me today, with my immune system currently down while I am on steroids and medication I seem to have picked up a cold and my head feels like its gone ten rounds with Tyson.