Motorway flyover with a classical river god statue in an alcove, only visible at night.
Darkitecture: buildings that are only there at night. Motorway No. 2.
Not fully assembled yet, but 98 % finished.
#pencil #pencildrawing #architecture #drawingbuildings
Charcoal pencil sketch of convoluted architecture in a variety of styles.
A #sketch I'd like to turn into a larger drawing. It evolved out of itself one Saturday morning when I had to go into work. It's called The Endlessly Unfurling Ziggurat of Tedium.
In the next version the lion will be sleeping, not dead. It seems unfair.
Drawing of a featureless concrete pillar supporting a motorway bridge, done with a tiny mechanical pencil.
Been drawing a featureless concrete pillar with a very small pencil.
Trying to capture the egret drifts appearing like twilight ghosts on the Vietnamese coast🧡
#printmaking #painting
Charcoal drawing of two Scots pines next to a rocky stream.
Scots Pine landscape. Charcoal pencil on A2 paper.
#charcoal #drawing #pencil #pencildrawing #trees #treeart
Charcoal drawing of a Scots Pine.
Preview detail. Another large Scots Pine on the way.
#drawing #trees #pencil #charcoal
That's a good day.
You know what I blame this on the breakdown of? Society.
New girl finished - just some work to do on her frame. Heading for the Borders Art Fair in Kelso, 14-16 March👍
Porco Rosso (1992)
I did do some illustrations based on War of the Worlds, long time ago. It's an amazing book. A graphic novel version would only take me thirty to forty years to complete.
Ing Printmaker. Also paints. New girl on the easel today..
#painting #workinprogress
Charcoal pencil drawing of a Scots Pine.
Scots Pine, The Great Caledonian Forest. Charcoal pencil on A2 paper. #drawing #pencils #trees
Hunkering down for Storm Éowyn; these frosty pictures are from a dander with @richajohnson.bsky.social earlier in the month.
#winter #scotland
Black-and-white photographic portrait of a woman in a dress with lots of damage to the photograph many white streaks all over it including one and obliterates one of her eyes
Black-and-white photographic portrait of a woman in a dress with lots of damage to the photograph many white streaks all over it including one and obliterates one of her eyes
A collaboration with time: beautifully decayed and damaged daguerreotypes from the studio of one of the most celebrated 19th-century photographers Mathew Brady, who died #onthisday in 1896: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...
Pencil drawing of sunrise over hills and French medieval church of Saints Bertrand des Comminges.
For the past year - a year! - I've been working on a comic adaptation of an M R James ghost story.
I think I'm finished... Maybe still some tidying to do but I'm aware I could find sound reasons to start tweaking every single panel but I think it's time to work out how to release it into the wild.
Bare tree surrounded by winter fog and standing in a wide patch of cracked ice.
Thought we'd wait for the fog to lift. It didn't so we went for a dander anyway.
Pencil drawings - 'When the Machines Came.'
A large beetle on its back in a bed in a small attic room. Franz Kafka.
Pen drawing, Gregor Samsa. This drawing has taken on something of a life of its own, sometimes with my permission (tattoos!), sometimes not (RedBubble, Etsy, even the New York Times...). But, for the record, this is the original and I drew it. 🙂
A ghostly figure rises up in a bad. M R James ghost story.
Pencil illustration for 'O Whistle and I'll Come To You' by M R James.
Four from a (sort of ongoing) series of modernisations of Hans Holbein's amazing Tudor portraits. Pencil on cartridge paper.
Oil painting of a rusty blue fishing boat.
Oil painting - The Price of Fish: Kirkwall.
Black and white charcoal drawing of an ancient oak tree.
A placeholder and a hello. Instagram seems to be tailoring itself to make me hate it so I'm giving it what it wants. There had better be cat videos here is all I'm saying.
