This week I have been teaching recycled relief printing, normally for this, I use polystyrene trays from under pizza's. This time, ...

I wanted to achieve the effect of bubbles or rainbow clouds in an illustration last week so I returned to a technique that I used to tea...

What can you do when a friend is very ill in hospital and you cannot take flowers? Flowers have been banned in British hospitals for...

It is coming to the end of the academic year and I am going to be sad to say goodbye to everyone as they go off and co...

After 3 weeks of making album covers often late into the night, today is comic relief day . I have to say it has been three weeks...

Making your face funny for money . . . Comic Relief 2015. My students and I have been making and are continuing to make...

Exciting times. A brief display at Kirkcaldy railway station followed by the installation of 11 of the 50 'through the glass'...

Sometimes I love my job so much! Yesterday was one of those days. Inspired by  Rolf Harder(1929-2013) , When Alcohol Dist...

Yesterday one group of students escaped with their heads, here they all are on a double decker bus.  Today there is the prospect of a sca...

  A month ago I featured work by Donald Baechler .  Sometimes when I put artist/illustrators on 'theartroom' I then go t...

  I am making brids with my students at the moment and flocks of them are gathering, I am expecting more to arrive today.

To tell you the story of what happened to my students haggis. He was arrested by the transport police in Inverness ! But then released on b...

Below: Waiting at Kirkcaldy train station, above on the Inverness train. Today is Burns day in Scotland. I have been making Haggis for wee...

The image below is by Lucus Blalock and it inspired me to think of making some 'bottles of art' with my students. Unbelievably thi...