straight from the den

Accademia

2012-01-29T21:47:00.000Z

Chuck D

2012-01-26T18:44:00.000Z

Classic Scottish Hillwalking Experience

2012-01-19T18:32:00.000Z

New Years Day, 2012

2012-01-16T14:18:00.001Z

Fitba

2011-12-12T18:43:00.000Z

Tour cont'd

2011-12-09T17:13:00.001Z

Tour

2011-11-30T18:06:00.001Z

behind the new house

2011-10-07T19:35:00.000+01:00

on the train

2011-10-07T19:15:00.002+01:00

Fringe: Royal Oak / Tannahill

2011-08-31T18:07:00.002+01:00

archive: photostory

2011-08-19T17:00:00.000+01:00

juvenile jackdaw (new nib)

2011-08-18T12:31:00.001+01:00

evening

2011-08-16T18:34:00.000+01:00

rocky shore beside a viking's grave

2011-08-03T17:20:00.000+01:00

hunting macpherson

2011-07-19T19:56:00.001+01:00

by the sea

2011-06-16T14:31:00.000+01:00

A couple of illustrations for a commission that I'm working on at the moment.

Bo'ness

2011-06-09T13:15:00.000+01:00

On the Links

2011-05-27T14:21:00.001+01:00

Granny Pine

2011-05-17T09:48:00.001+01:00

From Kate's

2011-05-16T18:10:00.004+01:00

Blackford

2011-04-05T19:02:00.000+01:00

In cloud, Ben Ime • Beinn Ìme

2011-03-14T15:07:00.000Z

Shots: Edinburgh 12th February 2011

2011-02-22T18:00:00.003Z

shots were fired.

crocosawrus

2011-02-14T21:52:00.000Z

Kipperling

2011-02-10T20:31:00.001Z

Deoch an' Doris

2011-02-06T11:23:00.001Z

Hogmanay Dinner

2011-01-20T16:15:00.005Z

We ate bits of one of these on the 31st. Perhaps a post to follow.

Second time lucky

2011-01-11T23:48:00.005Z

Sometimes I send drawings on a postcard to people who I don't know, using twitter to collect victims.

In September I sent the card below from Howmore, South Uist to @aikowrites. But I addressed it wrongly and it never arrived. Did have funny correspondence with @RoyalMail who said that the card would have been destroyed. This is what happens to miss-addressed post. Maybe someone saved it from the shredder and has it on their pinboard.

Here are the other cards I sent at the same time.

On 2nd Jan I drew this and posted it, again to @aikowrites. aiko sent me a photograph when it arrived safely:

St Oran's Chapel, Iona, in the Reilig Oran. Here, as at Howmore, there are graves of Lords of the Isles. Somerled himself might be nearby.

Bedroom for the undead Saint Sea Otter

2011-01-05T17:26:00.006Z

Happy New Year

2011-01-03T17:26:00.001Z

Mum Made a Snow Jelly

2010-12-03T15:45:00.002Z

STOP PRESS SNOW LEOPARD sighted on BRUNTSFIELD LINKS

2010-11-28T15:43:00.003Z

Today in Edinburgh

2010-11-27T16:53:00.001Z

Pippa Coles

2010-11-24T23:40:00.005Z

A wee taster of what's to come on pippacoles.com. We've been working with Bremner Design on this site for Pippa Coles Garden Design. Pattern/illustration done here in the den. The gorgeous photography is by Angus Bremner.

.

2010-11-07T11:27:00.001Z

Postcards from the Edge II

2010-11-01T19:13:00.010Z

All of these cards were posted at Howmore, South Uist on 6th September. Some were sent to twitter followers, the rest to family and friends. Some other cards had already been given away * * , and some came home with me *.

The cards shown were drawn between the 30th August and 6th September in a few different locations: Howmore; various locations on Berneray; a couple of ferries; St Clements, Rodel, Harris. Picture taken on the table at Howmore hostel, as I did the divvy up.

Twitter followers who responded to the offer of a card #postcardsfromtheedge:

@aikowrites *, @randmhousekpr, @tinyblob, @davidtuckisgay, @benrobertsphoto (card), @homespunvintage, @caponicus, @mrkipperling, @bremnerdesign, @mhutchings, @jencrabtree, @stjudes

*card m.i.a.

update: the card sent to @randomhousekpr turned up 2 months late and with an Edinburgh postmark. Particularly odd as it arrived on the same day that I had got in touch with Royal Mail to see if it could be traced.

Death, and a Maiden

2010-10-31T17:48:00.002Z

Happy Halloween!

A Very Long Engagement...Card

2010-10-27T18:13:00.003+01:00

Congratulations card for a dear friend and her husband-to-be, pictured in their bookcase in London.

A panorama done on the move: the changing view on the crossing between Rum and Arisaig. Taking in the mountains of Skye, Knoydart, and Lochaber. Watercolour on cheap lion brand blank postcards.

And a special envelope made from the Companies & Markets pages of the FT.

A Drawing for A Dram

2010-10-24T18:06:00.094+01:00

He was a rigger in recalibration after a stint of night shifts.

A large dram was administered as I sat outside drawing. John sat on the other bench with the bottle of Bushmills. He wore a jumper forgotten on the pulley by another (smaller) hosteler. A couple more draughts were drawn before he disappeared rig-lagged into his room.

I don't know where this drawing is now, possibly on an oil rig miles out into the North Sea. Autumn migration south may have taken it to a different beach hut. A swap: heather and straw thatch for palm.

A Tale of Two Saddles

2010-10-24T16:38:00.045+01:00

I made a wee sketch of a tandem aboard the MV Loch Portain, the Berneray to Harris Ferry. The sketch went home with the owners of the bike, lovely Alan & Wendy, who we had met the day before.

The tandem has been Alan & Wendy's mode of transport on adventures all over the world, while we are touring novices; it was great to chat panniers and packing with them.

This week Alan & Wendy sent a photograph of the drawing, up on their wall alongside mementos from their other trips.

A & W also did a tour blog - warning - this site has quantities of powerfully diverting reading material!

Drying Green

2010-10-20T15:29:00.004+01:00

On the tour

2010-10-19T18:35:00.005+01:00

Herring Gull finds something interesting in a bin

2010-10-17T09:56:00.001+01:00

The Writing Room

2010-10-11T16:07:00.005+01:00

New site just launched - for literary agent Maggie McKernan's consultancy The Writing Room. Featuring llustrations and hand drawn type from this stable! We did the site design and build too.

Scots Pine

2010-10-07T21:48:00.006+01:00

2010, digital, illustration, pen, pinus sylvestris, scots pine

Berneray 31st August: Electrical & White Goods, Lobster Pots.

2010-10-07T19:51:00.006+01:00

2010, berneray, drawing, Loch a Bhaigh, pen, plein air, postcard, scotland, west, outer hebrides,

pauly

2010-08-25T19:47:00.002+01:00

Top Table

2010-08-23T10:43:00.001+01:00

Over Meadowbank Stadium to Inchkeith and Fife

2010-07-30T10:55:00.008+01:00

Nelson's Monument & Edinburgh's Disgrace

2010-07-30T10:39:00.007+01:00

wedding season

2010-07-26T22:22:00.002+01:00

Books

2010-07-20T19:24:00.000+01:00

Sunday 18th July 1.56am

2010-07-20T12:17:00.002+01:00

Archive: Summer GGGHM

2010-07-16T11:39:00.005+01:00

for a girl (grill?) who likes to BBQ

2010-06-25T17:50:00.004+01:00

lindisfarne from the flying scotsman 22.06.10

2010-06-24T18:07:00.002+01:00

postcard: to self, the cocktail isles

2010-06-03T11:04:00.010+01:00

eigg nog!

Pentlands

2010-05-28T15:10:00.002+01:00

Shotses

2010-05-17T19:40:00.008+01:00

tunes >

.

2010-05-15T00:47:00.004+01:00

Pichu in Escallonia

2010-05-14T18:41:00.005+01:00

Daydream

2010-04-27T10:44:00.002+01:00

Day off

2010-04-18T23:36:00.001+01:00

1 o'clock 2 o'clock Wedlock

2010-04-17T23:03:00.003+01:00

dornoch cathedral ink drawing

Heather Mattress

2010-04-16T15:33:00.003+01:00

No apron

2010-04-16T14:38:00.003+01:00

Rookery

2010-04-15T12:51:00.004+01:00

before tea

2010-04-07T00:36:00.003+01:00

Cairngorm

2010-04-03T13:13:00.010+01:00

Guise

2010-04-01T21:24:00.006+01:00

Postcards from the edge

2010-03-30T11:19:00.013+01:00

Postcards from Canna. Some sent to twitter followers who responded to pre-trip offer of a card. More details here.

Postcard mountains 8th March

2010-03-09T15:30:00.005Z

birthday card

2010-03-06T20:02:00.007Z

after grandad's birthday lunch, down the road in lower largo. it rained.

Hoodie / Dirty Magpie

2010-02-28T22:07:00.012Z

On the Way

2010-02-10T13:33:00.001Z

Rigcorvid Mortis

2010-02-08T17:27:00.008Z

Out Of Space

2010-02-07T23:13:00.011Z

the Orient, towards the Occident

2010-02-03T18:57:00.006Z

Rosalind

2010-02-02T19:58:00.005Z

Postcards from two museums: Edinburgh & Cambridge

2010-02-01T23:12:00.013Z

Snowsports

2010-01-11T12:03:00.001Z

New flickr stream here

New Year's Pie

2010-01-11T10:13:00.003Z

Postcard Kinloch Castle, 2nd January.

2010-01-06T17:06:00.005Z

Christmas Day in the Kingdom

2010-01-06T12:17:00.002Z

Dust fire

2010-01-06T09:57:00.003Z

View

2010-01-05T19:10:00.003Z

The MV Loch Nevis Session, 2nd January.

2010-01-05T16:41:00.009Z

Happy New Year

2010-01-04T12:15:00.006Z

Lampada

2009-12-19T23:34:00.002Z

Home

2009-12-18T22:00:00.000Z

Postcards, al Bancogiro

2009-12-18T15:04:00.011Z

Grand tourist again

2009-12-18T12:50:00.007Z

Venetian Housemate, likes cicchetti

2009-12-14T18:33:00.009Z

Acqua Alta

2009-12-09T21:52:00.003Z

De Le Guglie

2009-12-09T21:48:00.006Z

Vittorio Veneto, Brown Trout

2009-12-09T13:50:00.007Z

Postcard. Mrs Campbell's gate, Canna.

2009-11-12T00:31:00.016Z

Gate to the plot surrounding the hermitage of Mrs Campbell (Margaret Fay Shaw).

Postcard. Lagandorain twilight, Iona, November 18th.

2009-11-11T18:46:00.010Z

Postcard rocks at Port Ban, Iona, November 15th.

2009-11-11T18:19:00.005Z

Your ma: denied.

2009-11-11T14:21:00.004Z

straight from the den

Accademia

Chuck D

Classic Scottish Hillwalking Experience

New Years Day, 2012

Fitba

Tour cont'd

Tour

behind the new house

on the train

Fringe: Royal Oak / Tannahill

archive: photostory

juvenile jackdaw (new nib)

evening

rocky shore beside a viking's grave

hunting macpherson

by the sea

Bo'ness

On the Links

Granny Pine

From Kate's

Blackford

In cloud, Ben Ime • Beinn Ìme

Shots: Edinburgh 12th February 2011

crocosawrus

Kipperling

Deoch an' Doris

Hogmanay Dinner

Second time lucky

Bedroom for the undead Saint Sea Otter

Happy New Year

Mum Made a Snow Jelly

***STOP PRESS*** SNOW LEOPARD sighted on BRUNTSFIELD LINKS

Today in Edinburgh

Pippa Coles

.

Postcards from the Edge II

Death, and a Maiden

A Very Long Engagement...Card

A Drawing for A Dram

A Tale of Two Saddles

Drying Green

On the tour

Herring Gull finds something interesting in a bin

The Writing Room

Scots Pine

Berneray 31st August: Electrical & White Goods, Lobster Pots.

pauly

Top Table

Over Meadowbank Stadium to Inchkeith and Fife

Nelson's Monument & Edinburgh's Disgrace

wedding season

Books

Sunday 18th July 1.56am

Archive: Summer GGGHM

for a girl (grill?) who likes to BBQ

lindisfarne from the flying scotsman 22.06.10

postcard: to self, the cocktail isles

Pentlands

Shotses

.

Pichu in Escallonia

Daydream

Day off

1 o'clock 2 o'clock Wedlock

Heather Mattress

No apron

Rookery

before tea

Cairngorm

Guise

Postcards from the edge

Postcard mountains 8th March

birthday card

Hoodie / Dirty Magpie

On the Way

Rigcorvid Mortis

Out Of Space

the Orient, towards the Occident

Rosalind

STOP PRESS SNOW LEOPARD sighted on BRUNTSFIELD LINKS