More McNaught

I can't tell you how much I'm into Jon McNaught's work right now. I love the little details and observations. There's a really interesting interview with him here.

Other Peoples Stuff

A few photos I took of a few people's work from last week. The top two are by my good friend Archie Stewart who I did these with. Really love the tiny men and the pillars and the shelves. The bottom two are by another good friend Violetta Munoz. The photos don't do them justice at all, the stripped down line drawings look amazing in the frames. Lovely stuff.

Finished!

This is my final hand in for first year painting. Scary stuff. I'm very pleased with how it turned out, both the project and the year. I've got tonnes of time on my hands now so I should be spending it drawing, that's the plan anyway.

Island

A few images from my current Island project.

Giveaway Winner!

So I drew a name out of a hat (in actual fact it was a shoe as I couldn't find a hat) and we have a winner!
Congratulations to littlebirdbigcity, your name was on the bit of paper which came out of the shoe first and you therefore win a print of your choice. I will try to get in touch with you shortly to sort out your winnings.

Thanks to everyone who entered, it was lovely to hear from you all, better luck next time eh?

The picture above is something I did last week. It is a kind of comic strip I suppose about the people on an island getting their post delivered.

Sea Square

This is from a series of 3 paintings all of the sea. They are all 3cm x 3cm on a 20cm square piece of mountboard, and again, they look much better in person and as a series.

Harboured

It's a real shame that these come out so badly scanned. This is about 4cm x 3cm in real life and looks a lot better in the flesh.

Stormy Seas

I've been doing a lot of really tiny paintings about my trip up north. This is one of the bigger ones.

Pass the Painting

I've been doing these little paintings with my good friend Archie today. We sit on opposite sides of a wall with a small gap in between, one of us has been doing a bit of something then passing it through for the next person to work on. I'm really keen to carry it on as his work is really nice and they're a lot of fun to do.

Giveaway!

I promised to do a giveaway when I hit 100 followers a couple of weeks ago. I forgot to do it when I did hit 100 but have no fear, I'm doing it now. Put up a comment on this post, then I'll put everyone's names into some kind of randomizer thing and who ever wins can have a print of their choice! Good luck.

White Fang

I've also been vandalising this book by Jack London.

Seagull

Another little painting I've done this morning. I reckon it'll look a lot better on a larger scale with an even tinier bird.

Eigg

I didn't manage to get to Rum in the end. I hadn't factored in the possibility of storms or bad weather in winter in Scotland for some reason, but I did however manage to get to the neighboring island of Eigg instead, and I'm really glad I did.

These are a couple of things which I've been working on today. The top two framed drawings are based on photographs I took whilst up north. I traced my walks as one continuous line over a map of the island, transferred the route onto a bit of mount board and made the second drawing out of it. I quite like the idea but I think I can do a lot more with it.

Rum

Tomorrow I'm setting off on another adventure. I'm going to spend a week camping on the Isle of Rum alone, wandering around and drawing and reading. I'm hopefully going to try to document everything I experience about the island and the journey and return with the beginnings of an interesting project. Wish me luck.

p.s In other news, I'm currently at 99 followers and I think when I hit 100 I will do some kind of give away style thing, so tell your friends!

Omar Zingaro Bhatia

Omar Zingaro Bhatia is a Scottish artist who studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and he creates these mad, immersive installations. WELL into it.