Creative meet ups and teaching my trade.
This week I have been sketching at Lauriston Castle and also in the New Town with friends.
It is another late Sunday night catch up as I’ve had a lovely weekend with family in the garden. We can’t waste this weather can we? Far too nice to be typing and staring at a screen if it can be helped. I did manage another #100FlowersIn100Days sketch though, a series of flower sketches I started in the winter as I was missing the weddings. MyWeddingSketcher work has now picked up and the 100 flowers is no longer tied to the 100 days! I think the one above, a Clemitis climbing our fence is number 90.
Sketching Gods smiling down
The weather caused some stress this week, constant down pours had my worried about Thursdays workshop at Lauriston so much so I was collecting fir cones and filling vases with freshly cut flowers to draw just an hour before the start time.
I do have an indoor option, this is Scotland after all and I am always prepared and would have passed on my tips and techniques indoors had the rain fell, using the flora I had collected. But it isn’t the same as being out there stood in front of a huge building or under a canopy of rhododendrons while splashing the watercolour on.
So thankfully the sun stayed out and we had a fab morning walking around the 16th Century town house grounds which over looks the Firth of Forth with views to Fife. I am so grateful to have been asked to run sketching groups there this summer and my next one will be on Friday 21st June.
Creatives come together
On Friday afternoon I was sketching at Arienas Collective, they had an open afternoon/evening with Jimmy’s Homewares, a local company which sources and sells vintage and mid century items for interiors. They had lots of beautiful items on show and some of the artists from Arienas were there showing what you could make during a workshop. I sketched through the evening making the piece above which captures the day well for me. It was great to chat to people wanting to be creative, to want to have ideas and try new things. It is inspiring.
Take it easy and keep sketching, and enjoy the sunshine too :) Mark