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Showing posts with label Edinburgh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edinburgh. Show all posts

Friday, 28 July 2023

South Queensferry

 Stayed at the Three Bridges Apartment overlooking the Firth of Forth.


Queenferry Sketches

Edinburgh Road in Queensferry



The other side of Edinburgh Road.

Plewlands House at the bottom of the Loan on the High Street

High Street houses looking south

View outside of the apartment on the Binks to Forth Bridge

Forth Bridge from Newhalls

Sketch from the harbour wall looking back to the Tolbooth


Mondays drive to Culross calling in at North Queensferry on the way back.

Culross walk from the west car park 1.8 miles



Top to Tanhouse Brae looking back to the Forth of Firth. We could smell the chemical works from the other side of the Firth.

Red Lion Inn 

Looking back to the village centre on the Low Causeway

Looking back to the previous sketch

Back Causeway Culross

Thumbnail sketches in my Diary

Drawing on 20x16 inch canvas board for future collage.

Morning sketch looking across the harbour - very quiet - 20x16 inch canvas board

Work finished on returning home.

South Queensferry Harbour -collage, pen and acrylic

Former Seals Craigs Hotel South Queensferry from the Craigs' headland -collage, pen and acrylic

Culross Cottages - pen and watercolour

Culross Pottery - pen and watercolour

Culross back lane just off the Lower Causeway - pen and watercolour

Cottage opposite Cramond Harbour - I enjoyed using a pencil without any ink.


Monday, 24 August 2020

Keep on painting

Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull
Collage on 20x16 canvas board
Collage on 12x10 canvas board
Stonehaven Scotland -  Ink over acrylic

Edinburgh - collage and acrylic on 20x16 inch canvas board





Saturday, 9 November 2019

October Update

Lanchester Exhibition Saturday 19th and Sunday 20 October 2019


My board -sold three framed - Staithes Slipway, Chocolate Zebra and York Walls - one unframed from the browser - Staithes


My brothers Trevor and Graham visited the exhibition - Trevor was on holiday from South Africa.

The three of us 60+ years ago, Photo from Trevor. We must have been holding Father up from going to the pub.

Weeks holiday in Leith Scotland











Biro sketches from Notebook 3