Tag: Edinburgh

Sketching on the journey to Orkney

We travelled to Orkney by train via Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

I carried a long thin sketchbook and made drawings along the way.

  • Aberdeen airport, print made with food wrapper
  • Aberdeen airport, print made with food wrapper
  • View from “The Silver Darling” restaurant
  • The Torrey Battery, from “the Silver Darling”
  • A pilot boat went past, very fast, on the River Dee
  • View from the train at Leukers
  • The Royal Society of Edinburgh, from the Wellington Coffee Café
  • View from Wellington Coffee, Australians in the street

Here is my very long sketchbook, 12″ x 5″ made by Khadi Paper, and bought at Atlantis in Hackney, London.

Street scene – drypoint

This is my first drypoint attempt.

It’s scratched on an aluminium plate, just over postcard size, and printed using the intaglio process on the press at East London Printmakers. This was on a course led by Damien Grist.

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It is based on a street scene in Edinburgh, Causewayside, where there were a number of antique shops. This is a mirror image of the view from an Italian restaurant.