rocky shore beside a viking's grave

A Very Long Engagement...Card

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.

Books

postcard: to self, the cocktail isles

eigg nog!

Postcards from the edge

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

Postcard. Lagandorain twilight, Iona, November 18th.

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

Postcard mountains from the MV Sheerwater

Crags

Nothing given away

For Mr Kipperling

Sunsets not my normal fare but the evening that I did this was amazing.

We were on the MV Loch Nevis between Canna and Mallaig after a few days on the Small Isles. The sea was still, silver and viscous-looking. We could see past Skye and Canna to the Outer Hebrideas. To the North were crisp views to the Black Cuillin ridge. Hushed tourists all around. Kipperling was sipping Red Cuillin ale, eating CalMac chips and watching over my shoulder. Unusually, he made approving comments (about the picture - CalMac chips and Skye Brewery beer always of a high standard). Sunsets are obviously his thing. So he's getting this one for his birthday.

I am fairly sure that Kipperling will not see this before I give it to him tomorrow since he will be celebrating tonight in Brontë country. Which conjures a very interesting set of images! He will no doubt be wearing brogues, clutching a copy of the Guardian Weekly and eating shin of beef.

Needles quickly snapped

From Kilmory, Rum, to the Black Cuillin.

Queen of the Blue Hill

Blaven Blaaven Blà Bheinn

Grand tourist watercolour challenge

Bologna, March 2009. Piazza and round the back of the (unfinished) basilica.
From the same day. And this too.