I was busy yesterday putting together my applications for Portrait and Landscaoe Artist Of The Year yesterday. The PAOTY deadline isn’t until 7...
Category: Scotland
Highland Cow
Somebody local who works with number two son in the kitchen at the Rose & Crown expressed an interest in buying a painting of a highland cow if...
Islay Beach Cottage
After reading the Robert Brindley book, I was itching to get started on a new soft pastel painting. I picked out a view of a cottage for rent on...
Burnside Cottage, Fionnphort, Isle Of Mull
I'm still getting used to the NeolucidaXL. As the next step in my journey towards mastering its ways, I used it today to help me draw a simple...
Bunnahabhain Distillery
I'm still making my way through my birthday presents but it isn't new art gear today: it's a new malt. An 18 year old Bunnahabhain from Islay...
Ally MacLeod
A grim day today with a power cut in the morning and then no WiFi when the power came back on so I'm grabbing a sneaky coffee in Costa while I...
Ardbeg Distillery
I'm back to painting distilleries. Today it's the Ardbeg Distillery on the island of Islay. I've deviated a bit from my normal rule here as I...
Three-One!
Something about that Joe Jordan painting yesterday put me in a nostalgic mood and wanting to keep going back to the 1978 World Cup. And the...
Joe Jordan
Today I have been mostly painting a portrait of Joe Jordan. As he's wearing a Scotland shirt it seemed appropriate to paint this one with three...
The Sandstone Kagoule
I really shouldn’t be painting on Mondays. Monday is housework day and after I've had breakfast, done the housework, finished my daily four mile...
Craighouse, Jura
Spin The Wheel! Last night I relaxed in my recliner chair in front of the telly (but reading a book) with a Jura mal5 that had been stored in old...
Dalwhinnie Distillery
It's the weekend and the builders are off for the weekend so I'm back in the studio for a couple of days. What to paint though? Well, I can't...
Inverie In Tundra Colours
I didn't stay away long. I'm back to paint Inverie again, this time using the tundra supergranulators. I've chosen a different viewpoint and was...
The Old Forge In Watercolour
I'm back on the watercolours and couldn't resist having another go at The Old Forge in Ivernie. It was tempting have a go at this scene in tundra...
The Old Forge, Inverie
This, or at least the building on the far left, is The Old Forge, a pub in the village of Inverie on the Knoydart Peninsula. It was in the news...
View From Ardtornish Castle
An old mate from Uni, Howard, was recently on holiday in the Scottish Highlands and Islands and posted loads of photos on Facebook. The one on...
Stirling Castle
I was flicking through the Tony Smibert book this morning looking for inspiration for two forthcoming eye on the other side of the glass paintings....
The Old Bridge, Latheronwheel
After reading those two books and coming up with this painting, I think I may finally have "got" coloured pencils. It's all about adding multiple...
Black Rock Cottage, Glencoe In The Key Of Purple Cool
So, as promised, here's another painting of Black Rock Cottage, but this time using more conventional watercolour.ours rather than the...
Black Rock Cottage, Glencoe In Tundra Colours
I promised people on LinkedIn that I'd start posting my artwork up there. Yesterday I put up my first figure drawing since retirement and it was...