Category: Chatter

Eileen Gray

Another picture from the Pompidou Centre, this time at the Eileen Gray exhibition. I didn’t check out this show but took a bit of time to relax on the sofas. I really struggled with enjoying the artwork, like so many tourists I was really aware of walking past all the exhibits and not really taking [...]

Paris drawings

I thought it could be a good idea to show some on site drawings while I was there. They’re all fairly quickly done generally about 20 minutes or so. Outside Shakespeare and Company, the queue was pretty big so waited to the next day to get in. Getting the bus from Beauvais to Paris Sitting [...]

La Bastille rooftops

Looking up from the metro seeing these rooftops, fell in love with the Parisian rooftops. I see now why Fabrice Moireau did a whole book of illustrations. Postcard no.05 off to Northern Ireland.

Francis Bacon at the Pompidou

It was fun seeing the Pompidou Centre or more accurately experiencing the place as its really a place to become part of and explore. Even the fact of being in it you become part of the show, the way you’re so visible and vulnerable (for those with a head for heights) when you go up [...]

Jardin du Luxembourg

Loved the Jardin du Luxembourg, it was still pretty chilly in the air, but the park was still really busy with people just milling about, promenading I guess. You’d get a light white dust that coats your shoes as make your way through the park to check out the small sailing boats with the Eiffel [...]

Vélo

Still trying to keep some of the spirit from visiting Paris with me. I was surprised how friendly people were visiting there, even to the extent having folk telling me to slow down, relax and take easy. It was small moments of manners I noticed like helping with jackets, offering seats and the ever lasting [...]

Postcard exchange

I’ve been making these small illustrated postcards in exchange with other artists and illustrators. Its been good fun working in a smaller size and trying out new techniques. If you fancy getting involved and doing an illustrated postcard exchange for some original artwork. I’ve just made these by cutting a postcard size piece of paper [...]

Some life drawings

Piece

On Monday I visited Piece on Argyle street, I used to go here all the time when I worked nearby so it was good to see the place again. So many sandwich places usually have ingredients you point at so you can sometimes end up with a muddle of a lunch. These guys have taken [...]

Alasdair Gray’s Hillhead Mural

A couple of years ago in October 2010 I worked as a drawer on Alasdair Gray’s mural for Hillhead underground. The final unveiling of the mural was last September its taken me a while to find the time to get round to putting this all together. Here is Alasdair giving his opening speech before lots [...]