Edinburgh

These are a selection of sketches painted over the summer in Edinburgh. This was, in many ways, my first attempt to paint street scenes in earnest as I’ve always been put off by the crowds. Inner-city painting provides new challenges in terms of continually changing subjects, not to mention all the usual problems of painting outdoors: wind and rain etc. Many visitors to Edinburgh comment on its famous ‘four seasons in a day’ weather. I can testify to this, though would reduce the time scale to about half an hour.