Part of Aberdour Castle sketched on a sunny day from a conveniently positioned bench!

Aberdour...for more than half an hour

We had a really good day sketching in Aberdour yesterday.  A sunny day, but very windy, so OK for sketching.

Here are the sketches I did, starting with my favourite - the view back to Edinburgh with the storm-tossed boats in the middle-distance.

And a wee quick sketch of Inchcolme

And a charcoal sketch of the wider sea view

I also did some buildings and trees.

 I particularly loved this tree, with its rather severe haircut!

 And this curious building....

Bit of a gap with the posts, girls. We should be doing better.  This was a good sketching venue (well, it suited me) and the weather was good, so maybe it will inspire us further.

Outside Ocean Terminal

Decided to brave the weather outside and draw some boats and cranes.

I wanted to get the line and the composition fixed, but really it was the colour that was so interesting....

Then I did some little ink drawings like this....

But after lunch I stayed inside and had a go at the view from the cinema over the open ground outside Ocean Terminal and the ponding on the blaes surface.  Nice feeling of desolation...

But this effort is not nearly as good as the sketches of this view done by others - I hope they post their sketches here too!

Ocean Terminal 19Oct12

Had a great day at Ocean Terminal. Started outside with the Royal Yacht.......

Then inside....lots of shops.....and finally, lunch, of course!

More Linlithgow Sketches

As it was a bit windy, I did this sketch standing inside the Burgh Halls. A pencil sketch that took some time.  Difficult angles.

Then it was down to the loch to look at the boats, but I couldn't finish this sketch, because it rained. But I quite liked the boats all together.

After lunch, I sat on the cemetery wall and sketched the small group of houses. Anther pencil sketch.

I like the higgledy-piggeldy-ness of these houses! Great place for sketching, Linlithgow.

Linlithgow sketches

Despite it being very windy, had a great day drawing lots of things including this fireplace in the Burgh Halls and St Michael's steeple.

Linlithgow Sept 2012

We met in Sooo Strawberry Caffe....(I think I've spelt it right).....so nice we went back for lunch.