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I don't have a mass of sketches to post but I do have one or two from other times that I have taken up my pencil and brush.

This really is astonishing to me that Aberdeen Council has a wonderful collection of impressionists and doesn't shout it from the rooftops. There is nowhere else I have ever been that you can be alone in a room with a view like this. It would be three deep around every painting in London.

And a few other views around Aberdeen.

HMT and the Library domes (with elementary symbols for later colouring that never happened).

A couple of little views from down at the harbour, on Market Street, one of the Town House and one of the bridge of a supply vessel.

First Post

This will be my attempt to drag myself back to the sketchbook, I try and fail regularly to make sketching a part of my life.

First off is a sketch I made yesterday while waiting for my other half to have a job interview. The train station at Aberdeen is one of the few buildings made of any stone but granite and I made a terrible, rushed job of matching the colour. In my defense, with all the granite around, the sandstone stands out as being a little vibrant but not the sunflower yellow I have come up with here.

The facade has been incorporated into a new shopping mall in a fairly sympathetic way but it does feel as though it is an exhibit rather than a necessary thing.

I really did intend to drab down the colours but I got cut short. That will be my job for next time. Also, the Letraset pen I used for the heavier lines turns out to be very water soluble. That was immediately demoted to crossword duty.

Today I was again waiting at Kilau coffee for the same other half and noticed they have used espresso cups as the tieback decoration for the curtains, I had a go at sketching them.