Seal Silhouette

Here's the final set of ink silhouettes inspired by my trip to the Scottish National Museum: seals!

I recently found out that seals can be spotted in the sea in places near Edinburgh. Obviously I got way too excited about this, and have now made it a mission to find some seals. Or any kind of sea mammal, actually. Anyone with me?

Kestrel Silhouette

Here's the second set of ink drawings in the series I'm working on inspired by animals from the museum.

This is a Kestrel. I just loved the shape of the taxidermied bird on display.

Irish Elk Silhouette

These ink drawings were inspired by a beautiful Irish Elk skeleton in the National Museum of Scotland. I loved the shapes that the black skeleton created against the bright white of the gallery, and thought it would work great in ink. Then I thought the reverse would look good as well. I like how the positive and negative shapes look together.

I'm planning on doing two more sets like this, and creating a series of three positive and negative silhouettes inspired by animal shapes I've photographed in the museum.

Which drawing do you prefer?

First Assignment at ECA

Here are some work in progress shots of my first solo project here at Edinburgh College of Art. We were instructed to create an illustration for an article on the Higgs boson.

And the finished piece:

The finished drawing shows Rolf Heuer announcing that they have found the Higgs boson, Peter Higgs celebrating the discovery, a landmark from Cern, Edinburgh's Old College, a scientist from Edinburgh and a scientist from Cern high-fiving, and a sea of people celebrating the success. This drawing is meant to show the celebration felt by the whole scientific community throughout different nations. "It was a global effort, and it is a global success." - Rolf Heuer.

Skylights

Skylights from Outma Sqilx'w Cultural School and the En'owkin Centre in Penticton.

National Geographic Sketches

Here are some of the animals I've sketched in ink over the past few days from my National Geographic collection.

Bad Composition Drawing

For drawing class we had to create a composition that breaks all the rules of good composition, made up of sketches we did of objects we wouldn't normally draw. I flipped through a couple of National Geographics and sketched a wackload of random things.

The composition turned out really awkward, so I hope this is what the prof is looking for.

The bones are my favourite.

Birch Trees

Lately I've been loving drawing black birch trees on white. This time, I changed it up by adding eyes into the pattern of the trees.

The following image was painted with black acrylic on a 10x10" scrap piece of wood.

Maybe Crazy

Over the past couple of months, I've been very fortunate to work with my friend Jeff Chimney on creating his album cover, as well as some extra album art. His CD was just released Friday! Check it out.

Below is the album cover plus extra art.

Birthday Paintings

I made these two wood board paintings for Josh and Kieran's birthdays!

King Kong for Josh.

Van Morrison for Kieran.

Ink Sketches

Here are a few quick sketches I did for drawing today.

I really need to get into the habit of posting on a regular basis.