Scotland – The edge is everywhere
Post-pandemic, or ongoing pandemic? In any case, I finally got back to Scotland, where the mountains and sea meet, and the edge is everywhere.
Sea
Draw 100 times
I never thought I could draw anything 100 times, but in the end I really enjoyed experimenting with tools and materials. I made a slideshow – visualising my process and its twists and turns.
Only royalty are allowed to eat swans
Working away on my Lena and the Swan project. Here are some preparatory sketches in a range of media.
Solace and grief
As the world goes to hell in a handbasket, and the bad news just multiplies, I got out into plein air to sketch and get out of my overthinking, worrying head. Sometimes I packed my painting bag, but sometimes it was just my little sketchbook and an HB pencil. Working with black fineliner and colour, […]
Winter Solstice 2021
A very cold day, a very warm bonfire. Good friends, Christmas cookies and mulled wine and a gentle end to a not-so-gentle year.
I became acutely aware that what a child wanted to do most of all was to make a world in which to find a place to discover a self.
Edith Cobb
There's no excuse for causing our own extinction.
Dr. Sylvia Earle
Killer Jellyfish Rock Academia
December 2017 Well this is exciting – a Killer Jellyfish comic, published in the journal ephemera. Strange yet happy bedfellows?
More on jellyfish from Dr Lisa-Ann Gershwin
Dr Lisa-Ann Gershwin talking about the jellyfish – this is the science behind my comics.
Feeling old, feeling young
Met some great people, sold some comics, spoke bad Spanish to some very charming gentlemen from Chile and Argentina (who have asked me to draw a comic for their anthology …), drank a lot of coffee, wore lots of thermal layers, felt old, felt young, decided (again) to just keep on drawing. Zine Fest […]
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