The green dino/reptile is my take on Yoshi.

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Burrito on the Atlanta airport. It was not a good idea to eat heavy beans before a 8 hour flight to Europe.

Lápis preto 4B e aquarela sobre papel canson no formato A5

Rocks at South Queensferry – Watercolour

I have spent the best part of a week trying to paint rocks. You might think such basic things would be easy but I have found out otherwise. Lots more practise is needed, (and patience).

This scene, which is part of a larger painting, is on the beach next to the Forth Rail Bridge at South Queensferry on the east coast of Scotland. Its quite a barren and rocky place with loads of shapes to tease. The romantic in me realises that these boulders will probably have witnessed, among other things:

One of the furthest north settlements, by the Roman army, as early as the 1st century.

Queen Margaret, in the 11th century, crossing the Forth at this point on her way to build Dunfermline Abbey

The surrender of the German High Seas fleet in 1918 which steamed past this point and later headed to Scapa Flow where it scuttled itself.

The first air raid of WW2, September 1939, when Luftwaffe aircraft tried to sink ships next to the bridge.

Aye, if only these stones could talk.

A school assignment I did that was saved from the trash by my wife. I just found it yesterday. Lol, I aced the course, but who doesn’t?

After two hours of mindless drawings…

2012.7

Pansy

A page inspired by some pansy stickers I bought for a different craft project.

Bread. Ink and Kuretake. Bread from the corner store, we get it early in the morning freshly baked and hot.

Watercolour of the bridge over the River Forth with the Wallace Monument in the background.  This is NOT the bridge where the battle was fought in 1297.  The original one was a wooden structure and was further upstream.  Eat you heart out, Mel Gibson.

sketching “The Head” sculpture in Barcelona on May 1, 2012

La peña del Aire en Higalgo!

An old lawnmower sits, surrounded by the weeds it once conquered, and now being overtaken by them. For the May Theme Challenge, ‘Into Disrepair’.

Detalhe do capitel de uma coluna da Catedral Metropolitana de Porto Alegre

flying…
breakfast sketch, morning coffee … etc.
B pencil on a4 moleskine folio

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Dogs playing in Malmö summer -10

2012.6

Elder Gods

A whimsical little impression from an evening hanging out with friends.

amazon. 0,05 pencil on a4 moleskine
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Musician Alex. It was pretty surprising to hear my childhood songs highlighted by saxophone, while I was drawing trees and brunches for old people. My father use to collect songs, so I heard many from old times and they dear to my heart.
I outlined the figure of musician and the rest dissolved into the light. I used ink and gold watercolor for saxophone, it doesn’t scan well.