Nature at its best as spring flowers begin to pop up all around.
Beautiful brightly coloured tulips springing in our garden just now. I think the sudden downpours and fleeting bursts of warm sunshine are really suiting the spring flowers.
These ones we have cut to bring the outside indoors. One of my final 100 flowers in 100 days project I have been painting over at MyWeddingSketcher. I’m almost there now but admit to taking a few more days as my other wedding work picks up again.
If you would like to know more about my live wedding sketching just let me know and I will email some details and examples.
During the lockdown my wife and I spent a lot of time working in our garden and now we are enjoying the fruits, and more, of our labour.
This really is the best time to be out in the garden, just as new shapes and colours are exploding from all the nooks and crannies. I realise I am very lucky to have an outdoor space to call our own and this past couple of years it has been a godsend.
And not just to look at and admire, I find the physical act of gardening, growing and building so important for my mental health. My family will often be out there together, my wife Joanne planting and pruning, our daughter painting some flowers and our son James chopping wood or helping me build some garden structure.
Idyllic days that I want to go on for ever. Happy days in my happy place.
I was inspired to draw this watercolour after seeing similar sketches from Rolandnissanart of his garden and I liked the fact he included his hands and the sketchpad. You can see his light and bright watercolours on his twitter page HERE.
Saturday marked the Spring Equinox and the weather was marvellous in Edinburgh.
What a perfect day in Edinburgh for the #springequinox. We enjoyed a lovely walk in Lauriston Castle meeting up with friends who we haven’t seen for ages.
Spring is here and the warm weather makes such a difference to my mood , lets hope for another glorious sunshine filled spring in the capital.
I love Lauriston Castle, such a beautiful space to stretch the legs and get some well needed fresh air. See more about the 16th-century tower house which over looks the Firth of Forth at their website below.
As the Coronovirus outbreak forces people to stay in doors I am fortunate to have a garden from which to sketch in.
It is easy to get caught up the news and be feeling anxious about the things you cannot do anything about so instead I am sharing some of the beauty and colour that spring is showing us.
These mini daffodils are shooting up in pots around my garden, they look so delicate I thought I would try and capture their colour without using my pen to draw them.
This is a good exercise for you to have a go at, blocking out the colour with your paint brush and then leaving to dry before adding another slightly darker shade to create form.
My final layer is always the darker parts, the shadows which can make a drawing look 3D. I think this one may of gone a little to dark now but I am happy. I enjoyed the hour or so of creativity, concentrating and focusing on something other than the news of the day.
Such a beautiful day yesterday in Edinburgh, (not so much today!) but there is definitely a feeling of spring In the capital.
I took some photos of the multicoloured crocuses in Victoria Park to create this drawing. Not really a new medium but one I don’t usually use: pencil crayons. For this drawing I’m trying some new @spectrumnoir ColourBlend pencils over the top of my usual black ink fineliner pen. Let me know what you think.
With the recent Spring Equinox meaning the daytime is now longer than the night time we can look forward to long warm evenings and commuting to and from work in the light. Very exciting especially after the recent freezing temperatures.
I thought this might make a nice Easter card. Happy #Spring Day everyone 🙂
I’ve been enjoying the recent sunshine in Edinburgh, and recently took a walk along the Water of Leith into Stockbridge.
The Water of Leith river is said to be around 22 miles long and runs from the Pentland Hills through Edinburgh to Leith and out into the Forth of Firth.
There are many beautiful sights to be seen along its winding route (look out for heron, king fishers and otters), and one such place is Stockbridge where the green vegetation contrasts well with the sandstone architecture above.
I drew the above sketch in between St Bernard’s Well and St Bernard’s Bridge, which features in the drawing. This original ink and watercolour sketch measures approx 280x200mm and is yours mounted for £145. Email me at contact@www.edinburghsketcher.com if you would like to purchase the piece.
Looking for signs of spring today, and what better than these beautiful crocuses sketched in Edinburgh today.
I seem to have been scouring the embankments and park lands for weeks looking for these flourishes of colour which herald the new season and the promise of warmer weather ahead. And then all of a sudden they are everywhere, and so seems the sun this week. Long may it continue!!
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Such a beautiful day yesterday in Edinburgh, (not so much today!) but there is definitely a feeling of spring In the capital.
I’ve been enjoying the recent sunshine in Edinburgh, and recently took a walk along the Water of Leith into Stockbridge.
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Looking for signs of spring today, and what better than these beautiful crocuses sketched in Edinburgh today.