This shop front always makes me smile whenever I visit analogue in Edinburgh’s grassmarket.

This is a mixtape featuring people talking.
Part of Yewknee’s, Summer Mix Series (a video of a Raven talking).

Dog Is Life / Jerusalem – The Fall
Losing My Edge – LCD Soundsystem
Great Day (Fourtet Mix) – Madvillain
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott – Heron
Punk Rock – Mogwai
Walk Away Renee – Billy [...]

I was lucky to have a few pieces in this book about bicycles. I still get a big grin when I see work in print and it is a lovely book with wonderful bikes and artworks, two of my favourite things.
Here’s an amazon link to the book Velo, Bicycle Culture and Design.

An acrobatic red squirrel helping itself to the bird feeder.

After the intitial drawing on the raw umber base, I changed my mind with the background and redrew the model on a grey ground.
For the last session, I found the painting really difficult and didn’t get as much done as I would have liked.

This month I’ve been doing a full day a week at life drawing to hopefully work on my painting. There are moments where I feel I’m kind of “getting it” but then others where its a whole lot more difficult. I’m still working at that transition of drawing what I see (and copy) to what [...]

I’ve got some drawings that I hope to upload later in the week. I was amazed how different a game it is to indoor curling, you really have to hurl the stones down the ice and the noise, magic!

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas (and other seasonal celebrations) and New Year!

Its cold out there…