sketches

Sketches from the cabin in Sassaig, on the Minginish peninsula of southern Skye. Congenial situation there for sketching: a picnic table facing the Sound of Sleat.

sketches

Sketches from the first two places we stayed: an apartment in Inverness and a cottage south of Portree.

Sassaig, Skye, Scotland

These are paintings of the view from the cabin we stayed in in Sassaig, Skye.

It is really hard to tell what color those mountains are: they change so quickly.

inverie harbor, knoydart, scotland

My friend Robin and I are finally on our long-planned trip to Scotland. We spent a couple of days in Inverness, then a couple days each in northern Skye, near Portree, and a couple in the south, in Armadale. Ferried back to Mallaig on the mainland a couple days ago.

Scotland is unbelievably beautiful! I have many photos and a handful of small plein air paintings. Painted these while waiting for the ferry in Knoydart.

Have been watching James Potter videos on YouTube to prepare; he paints in Skye often. Doesn't seem to have helped me though!

But these are small, I'm away from home, and I've had a head cold for the last week.

I have a few more paintings to post, and some scribbly drawings.

Unfinished painting of the Old Forge Pub, the remotest pub in mainland Scotland.