Doodle

Japanese Moleskine

I haven't drawn for ages.  I need some inspiration.  Decided to pop out yesterday and buy a Japanese Moleskine sketch book.  Forced myself to sit down today and pick a Google Street View image and force myself to draw it to get back in the saddle. This is the Piazza del Grillo in Rome.  I used a Pigma Micron 02 and Pentel brush pen.

Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2016

Still Here by Lottie Hampson

I've had a rest from drawing recently but hope to get back into it again soon.  Meantime, one of the highlights of the artistic calendar in Edinburgh takes place this week and that's the annual degree show of students' work at our local art college. They have a couple of late evening shows and I went along tonight after work. Here are some of my highlights:

This thumbnail does not do this example of
Eden Hawkins' images justice but his work
is very striking and his work won prizes in this
year's show.

Over in the sculpture rooms this huge work from Lucy Emma Wayman
was one of the stand out pieces.

If I was handing out the awards this year then Hot Oyster's Gold Trophy would go to Ben Cresswell's stop motion animation "Gnome".  The little guy on the left was the lead character in a short piece filmed outdoors in a nature environment over the course of what must have been many night shoots.  The animation was stunning, it was beautifully shot and lit and the contribution from his musical collaborators the icing on the cake.  Check out Ben's page over on Tumblr

Megan Claire Hampton