Sunday 31 March 2013



















Happy Easter to all my blog followers

Friday 29 March 2013






















More Tobago to fend off the winter cold.

Thursday 28 March 2013
























This is a large painting of boats at Pigeon Point in Tobago.
A wee bit of colour on a winters day.

Wednesday 27 March 2013



















Wee watercolour sketch in the Algarve

Tuesday 26 March 2013





















Another from the French sketchbook.

Monday 25 March 2013



















Moiré in Beaujolais...sketchbook page.

Saturday 23 March 2013






















Part of a parking bay. These days in Scotland it can also
be a political statement.

Thursday 21 March 2013




















Mist shrouds Dunure castle. Elsewhere it was a beautiful sunny
blue sky day.

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Tuesday 19 March 2013



















There's something unendingly attractive about the colours,
shapes and textures of fishing gear from boats.

Friday 15 March 2013




















Photographer Ken Mellin is exhibiting photos of the Paris
Underground in SWG3, 100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow G3.
16th-23rd March.
Each image is for sale in a limited edition of 10. Great
prices. Great images.

Thursday 14 March 2013


















This another drawing from about ten years ago. This one gave
birth to a series of paintings which is still ongoing.

Wednesday 13 March 2013
















Found an old slide of a drawing I did years ago. Little church
near Spean Bridge. It's not a very good scan of the slide but then
I don't have a very good scanner. Time to invest I think.

Tuesday 12 March 2013






















When I was a kid living on a spur of Glebe Road in Beith we
listened in wonder to the story of the train that failed to stop
in the station (which was below us) and went right across
Glebe Road.
Someone in Beith found this newspaper cutting and this is
the first time I've seen a photo of the event. It was in 1950.
Wonder how they moved it.

Friday 8 March 2013

Beith Town House





















This is Beith Town House. Part of the building is now a museum
run by volunteers. There are only two small rooms but they put on
exhibitions. The one that has just finished was an exhibition of
photographs of transport in the town. Part of the permanent collection
is the flag above. This is an old wood block print flag. There was, for
many years, a wood block print flag making business in Lochwinnoch.
In all probability it was made there. As for the age of the flag...I don't
know but it has to be a couple of hundred years old.
The Town House museum  is open on Tuesdays and Saturday mornings.

Wednesday 6 March 2013




















This is the 'Auld Kirk' in Beith in Ayrshire. Dating from the
mid eighteenth century the Kirk was more extensive than it is
now. The most celebrated of its ministers was one John
Witherspoon who was in Beith from 1745-1758. In 1768
Witherspoon moved with his family to Princeton where he
became President of the Presbyterian College of New Jersey.
In 1776 he was one of those who signed the American
Declaration of Independence. The only minister to do so.

Tuesday 5 March 2013



















From the hills above the Clyde
























Portencross