Old drawings

I thought I'd upload some old drawings. Off to Tuscany tomorrow!

Camping photos

I am back! I camped at the wild-camping area next to the Kingshouse Hotel. Here's a few pictures I took. As you can see the weather was pretty dour - it was still quite warm though. Although on the downside this meant the midges were still about, arrrgh! 

A fat caterpillar:

Now I like curry as much as the next man but even I was surprised to find a large vat of curry paste in the middle of nowhere:

Me and Parsnip selfie:

Pint at the end of the night. Parsnip was sick in the pub not long after this photo was taken...

Here's the hotel:

Looking towards Glencoe:

Rannoch Moor:

Going camping...

Today I'm going camping, probably for the last time this year (I expect it will be too cold and dark when I get back from my trip to Italy.) I may attempt a painting. This is the last 'plein air' painting I tried:

The weather was pretty terrible that day, it started to rain not long after I began and the paint ran everywhere before I decided it was a lost cause. I worked on it quite a lot when I got home so it's basically unrecognisable from its nascent state on that cold and wet day in Ardnamurchan! I like to think of it as an 'authentic' landscape though - it has sand and rain and seawater all mixed in with the paint!

A Puddock

I've been messing about for ages with the layout of my blog. I guess it's fine for now. Time for a drawing! Here's an old one that seems apt. Without further ado, the humble puddock:

1-2-3 testing

that's all...