Sketchbook doodles in paint

My sketchbook is mostly filled with rough drafts and scratchy pencil drawings, these days I much prefer paint to pencil. These are a couple of recent paint sketches, feeling spooky!

Crude dood

Saturday night doodles

This one is a bit of 30s print inspired abstract doodling. Might turn it into a print too

Really enjoying the combination of cornflower blue with swamp yellow.

DASCH IT ALL TO HELL!

The longest dog in town

Wellington!

I've just come back from a wee trip to Wellington where I was lucky enough to stay on the top floor of a hotel (living the high life, literally! (groan)). Here's some sketches of the view. The one of the staircase was an amazing 17 story high stairwell which was perched on top of a 8 or 9 story building. Every so often some office worked would walk up or down a few flights, it was very thrilling.

Also I took some prints with me and now my prints, postcards and bookplates stocked in Eyeball Kicks gallery on Cuba Street. 

Rattle and Rolex

Annuli on legless squamata #1: The Rolex and Rattlesnake.

Sketchbook page

Back on the pineapple-gators

Sketchbook + red paint + blue black ink

Sketchy characters

Here's a few from the sketchbook. I used to be part of a drawing group but we haven't met up in ages so I've taken to sketching from fashion blogs when I get the hankering to draw figures.

These ones are from a little closer to home, my cat Shorty.

This is her classic 'I'm shy / no photos please' pose

gooseberry lantern

Here's a couple of sketches I did the other day, I've got some cape gooseberries growing in the garden, their fruits look so muck like little lanterns.

Its Autumn