The Vulcan
A huge sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi called the Vulcan carefully walking through the café in Edinburgh’s Gallery of Modern Art like a benign transformer.
Glasgow/Philadelphia World War Z
Some drawings of George Square, Glasgow which has been transformed into Philadelphia for the filming of World War Z.
the place where Neil Young was busking 35 years ago
I was taking some reference shots (a few weeks ago) just by the place where Neil Young was busking 35 years ago, just behind the guy with the bicycle.
Roasting Coffee
One day of summer
Fish tea at Anstruthers
Apple blossoms
Serpentine Road
Alasdair Gray drawing
I was meaning to contribute a picture to a small show of famous Glaswegians or “famous weegies”. When I helped out Alasdair with his mural last year I wanted to do a picture of him working in his West end flat (such high ceilings) at his desk with his books and paintings. I missed the show running out of time but wanted to finish it anyhow.
Amusement rides in the car park
A cup of tea on the ferry
to Rothesay
Voltaire & Rousseau
A secondhand bookshop in Glasgow’s Otago Lane, stuffed FULL of books (and a cat)
Majestic Laundrette
Vinyl hunters
The roaring game
A very short clip from last year.
Curling on the Lake of Menteith
Interesting North
Suw Charman-Anderson giving a talk about Eyjafjallajökull, The Little Volcano (pronounced aya-feeyalla-yurkul) in the rather elaborate Cutlers Hall in Sheffield. Part of Interesting North.
Busy drawing
Look, people working – no computers just paper pencils and rulers.
Heart, tulips in the window
Wha daur meddle wi’me?
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working as an assistant (on a large scale mural) for the author/artist Alasdair Gray. Here’s Alasdair and assistant Ella checking emails before the start of the day working where we walked around the West End taking photos for reference. A good day.
The giraffe at Kelvingrove
Wildflower meadow
In Yetts O Muckhart
Aha Ha Ha
In the Grassmarket, Edinburgh
Feishin
A few weeks ago I accidentally came across a small cottage where the owner had a small menagerie of birds including ravens, hawks, vultures and even a noisy kookaburra. Ravens are one of my favourite birds of the corvid family. Although they’re really intelligent they aren’t in any way "pets" and I wasn’t tempted to pat it on its head as that beak just looked pretty scary. It was weird watching it (and it me) just move about constantly curious, checking things out with an acute awareness.
This one is called Feishin which is Gaelic for Young Raven. It was the runt of the litter and had to be saved as it was found in poor health tangled up in twine abandoned.
I’m planning to use this image for a mixtape cover.
Hidden Lane Festival
It was a small mini festival in Glasgow’s Argyle street last weekend with band, food and craft things going on
