This is a quick sketch from a photo we took at Edinburgh Castle last July:

I managed to get my mitts on a (difficult-to-find) copy of The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing On Location Around The World last weekend. This is an absolutely beautiful book of sketches done on location around the world, and includes two of my favourite urban sketcher artists, Gabriel Campanario (also the book's author) and Pete Scully. Flipping through this book I'm so inspired to go out and sketch!
Maybe once it stops snowing... such a wimp!

A sketch of the sea wall in Oban, Scotland.

Danger! Danger! Chapters has introduced a new section where they have artists' sketchbooks and art media for sale... I'll need to start selling more art, I think!
So, here is a quick line sketch that I did after I bought a set of Faber-Castell artist pens and a pad of oatmeal-coloured paper...

Another sketch of the cabin from a different angle:

Here's a quick concept sketch for a project I'm working on at the moment:

Happy Valentine's Day!
Outside it's a winter wonderland, but inside I have plants and a vigorously flowering amaryllis to bring some brightness indoors!

Here is the last sketch of this particular series:

A variation using one of my favourite surfaces – plain brown envelope paper:

This guy's sporting a great lantern-jaw: