Scotland, mountains and sea, stories and secrets.

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it, and sharing an art tip too.
Today's drawing is Scotland, mountains and sea.
Today's art tip: Examine all conventions for your self. In art, as in life, some conventions are there because they work well, for example: windows looking dark in the distance, or top lip darker than bottom lip, others are perhaps obsolete, or false to begin with, example: brown tree trunks (they are usually silver, grey, green or black). Use your own looking skills, they are the true gift an artist brings the world.
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Four sea birds

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
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Today's is a group of four gulls on a cliff face, three adults and a chick.

Landscape from imagination

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.

Today's is a landscape from imagination. For some reason all landscapes I do from imagination end up being Scotland!

Loch Lomond, Scotland

I'm creating a drawing a day for a year, just for the art of it.

Today is my birthday, I'm 39.

I asked people yesterday what I should draw on my birthday and most said myself, in a way this is what I have done, if you extend the definition of myself to include the things that represent me.

The idea came from a text from my mum "Happy Birthday my Loch Lomond girl" this is where I was born and used to be the clan lands of my father's clan. Now it's a national park.

Home: Scotland

I'm creating a drawing a day for the art of it.
Today's is a Scottish landscape.

Seal

I'm creating a drawing a day for the art of it.

Today's is a seal. As a child I remember seeing these in my native Scotland and being told they were "selkies" that live as seals in the sea and shed their skins to become human on land.

The human form silkies were always very beautiful but it was bad news to fall in love with one as they must return to the sea.

Windswept horse by Kirsteen Lyons

I'm creating a drawing a day for a year, just for the art of it.

Here is a windswept horse I saw in Scotland on the isle of Arran.

Confession time, although I was taught to draw with a full range of pencils I usually draw with a 3B and a 6B only.