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Where have I sketched this week?

Late afternoon shadows but can you name the venue?

Leave your answer as a comment below, your entry will not show up until I reveal the answer in 24 hours. I will pick a random winner from all correct entries to win an Edinburgh Castle tote bag.

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!

My Edinburgh sketched merchandise and quality prints are available on my Etsy shop and I am available for commissions too.

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Haven drawings going up soon

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New ink drawings on wood panels are going up soon at the Haven Cafe, in Newhaven.

This is my latest dipping ink drawing drawn onto wood panels. I have made several now of a very local area of Newhaven, to be displayed in a lovely cafe which I have had my art in for 10 years.

The Haven is a local institution which has been serving great breakfasts to Leithers for over 10 years. Pop in and see my art and that of other local artists today.

Below is a scanned in digital version of the above sketch which I added a colour gradient to on the computer. This image featured in this week’s WhereArtI Quiz.

The Haven Cafe

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Where have I sketched this week?

I am sketching at the bottom of which city street?

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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!

My Edinburgh sketched merchandise and quality prints are available on my Etsy shop and I am available for commissions too.

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Tulips from our garden

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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.

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Educational, fun and dry!

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A trip to the museum is always fun but now holds fond memories too.


It’s been a pretty wet Easter break here in Edinburgh. And we like many others found our way to the National Museum of Scotland with the kids. We are so lucky to have this educational, entertaining and dry venue available for free.

We have been coming here since before the Sketcher Twins could walk. I remember they loved the sensory musical room with the Chinese dragon and the dinosaur dog room upstairs. Umpteen coffee and snack breaks between running about chasing toddlers
I remember before that coming here and watching the fish swim around the grand hall.

This time we were there to see pottery from hundreds of years ago to inspire our own crafty creations back home.

There is always something new but I like seeing the familiar too. Saying hello to Dolly and marvelling at the printing press, oh and the Isle of Lewis chess set! So much to see, but I was very sad when the mini disappeared!

Just now the Science Festival is on and our two now big kids enjoyed making robots and testing them out.

National Museum of Scotland website.

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Where have I sketched this week?

Do you recognise this outside staircase?

Leave your answer as a comment below, your entry will not show up until I reveal the answer in 24 hours. I will pick a random winner from all correct entries to win an Edinburgh Castle tote bag.

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!

My Edinburgh sketched merchandise and quality prints are available on my Etsy shop and I am available for commissions too.

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Where have I sketched this week?

One of the cities fine timepieces, but can you tell me where this one is?

Leave your answer as a comment below, your entry will not show up until I reveal the answer in 24 hours. I will pick a random winner from all correct entries to win an Edinburgh Castle tote bag.

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!

My Edinburgh sketched merchandise and quality prints are available on my Etsy shop and I am available for commissions too.

Email me at contact@www.edinburghsketcher.com for more details.

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Birthday banners

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Spring is a busy birthday time for us

With the Twin’s birthday in early March, mine late February and then my wife Joanne’s tomorrow this is definitely birthday season for us.
Being pretty creative we like to make our own cards and banners and this sketch is from early on Sunday morning when Zoe is making a last minute banner for Joanne’s birthday.
I love to capture these everyday moments if I can, like a snap shot but a sketch holds so much more of a memory for me than a photo. I look at an old sketch of the kids and can remember the moment and the feeling as I drew it. Sketch your day and start a little book of drawings you can keep in the living room ready to go.

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Where have I sketched this week?

A striking structure between new and old architecture.

Leave your answer as a comment below, your entry will not show up until I reveal the answer in 24 hours. I will pick a random winner from all correct entries to win an Edinburgh Castle tote bag.

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!

My Edinburgh sketched merchandise and quality prints are available on my Etsy shop and I am available for commissions too.

Email me at contact@www.edinburghsketcher.com for more details.

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Angles on the Mound

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Angles to see and to touch on the Mound

A grey day in the city but a walk through the centre inspired this sketch from the Mound. Loving the angles of perspective here and I have always wanted to draw this wonderful 3D map of Edinburgh.

This bronze 3D map by sculptor David Westby was I believe made for visually impaired people to ‘see the city through touch’ and was commissioned by the council and Marks and Spencers.

I love to see young children feeling their way around the streets, just like our two did when they were wee.

Find out more about the sculptor HERE