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we have a rock-stacking exhibition and related activities at work and I canNOT be trusted with them on a slow day

also have a sketch from Dunbar which I did at the weekend but - say it with me - forgot to post

you may think this looks precarious but my biggest mistake was not making it look precarious enough

(photo from Wikipedia, not mine)

#sketches #dunbar #scotland #ruin #pencil sketch #landscape

Spent a bunch of time at the Bowes Museum today, sketching both in my own sketchpad and on the easels they obligingly have around the painting galleries.

don't have an artist or name for this bust. call him moustache man.

Portrait of a Young Girl, 1806, Louise Marie-Jeanne Hersent-Mauduit

Harry George Vane, 4th Duke of Cleveland, George Watts (1817-1904 - no date given for the painting itself)

The Tears of Saint Peter, 1580-1589, El Greco

(I always forget just how exaggerated and stylised El Greco's paintings are - they look fairly realistic at first glance and then the closer you look the more cartoonish they are. I love them. truly one of my favourite artists of all time actually.)

and I knocked this one out in 10 minutes because it was coming up to closing time, so I didn't get any details or photos of the original marble.

#drawing #pencil sketch #from reference #artworks #bowes museum #museum #sketchbook #this was really therapeutic. I needed to do this actually.#sometimes you just need a day to Draw

foggy....

#photography #landscape photography #Edinburgh

forgot to post these yesterday, but: sketches from the Surgeon's Hall museum in Edinburgh

#sketches #drawing #pencil drawing #from reference #bones #medical #not sure how to tag this. the baby corpse feels like it might upset people untagged

forgot to post it on Saturday but I really like this photo I took in Portobello

I do not want to die, but to have been dead for some undeterminable length of time; Until the bones have gone to compost in the earth and there is no-one to bring flowers and no fond memories left to dwell upon; Until all the grief and guilt and sorrow all the love and loss and longing have been subsumed into the same empty history; Until some historian meandering through old records, until some walker strolling through a cemetery sees my faceless name, and pauses for a moment thinking: I wonder who they were and wanders on.

Burial, 06/07/2026

#poetry #poem #death #writing

be honest, would you buy this postcard?

#john muir #pencil sketch #drawing #portraits #typography #I'm absolutely for real about this btw the idea of designing postcards for the museum was pitched to me over the weekend

anyway I've been going for walks a lot, here's a selection of photos from the past four days

#photography #british landscapes #scotland #Dunbar #coast #seascape

John Muir is getting progressively older and closer. you cannot escape John Muir. he is coming.

(got bored working the desk at the John Muir museum so I sketched the photos of him that were on the books in the gift shop)

#sketches #John Muir #physical art #pen sketch #they are of highly varying quality but in my defence most of the photos were on the spines of books and like two inches high tops #there's a reason the best sketch is the photo that's on a big-ass screen behind the desk

At this point it's becoming a Thing that I will make anything with nettles except nettle soup

here's my nettle risotto, nettle beer, nettle cordial, and nettle Turkish delight (which absolutely slaps by the way)

#cooking #kitchen #foraging #hello yes I'm alive

mangled-by-disuse

There is, in fact, life beyond politics.

Also I've left an arrow somewhere in these woods.

#photography #british landscapes #woodland #this is literally just me going “hey i'm still alive” to anyone following this blog and not my main tbh #it has been A Time lately i. need to make more time for art.

a curated selection of my photos from Darlington Day of Dance on Saturday (11/04/2026)

took these standing in the wind and rain with no gloves and my knees out (my team's kit has long stockings and short trousers and about four inches of space between the two) and jesus christ lads it was fucking baltic

#photography #folk dance #morris dancing #darlington

Made a get well soon card for my friend who recently had surgery.

She was being menaced by seagulls while she was in hospital, so I thought I'd make sure she had company now she's home. 😇

#thoughts and prayers are my avian enforcement agents #art #physical art #coloured pencils #seagulls

i may come back to this, but i'm happy enough with it for now

The Creation of Glinda, 3 Apr 2026

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#wicked #fanart #digital painting #glinda upland #elphaba thropp #glinda/elphaba #the creation of adam

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this whole "do a tone study before you paint" approach is having uhhhhh mixed results tbh

eta: i'm getting mad because i LOVE how elphaba is turning out and meanwhile glinda still doesn't look great

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hated Glinda's face so i totally redid it

this whole "do a tone study before you paint" approach is having uhhhhh mixed results tbh

eta: i'm getting mad because i LOVE how elphaba is turning out and meanwhile glinda still doesn't look great

#digital painting #wip

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