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Marion Boddy-Evans
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Artist in northeast Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄
Studio blog on my website www.marion.scot
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I started this drawing on the left, rather than with the house as I did the previous two times I drew this view. Which meant that as I got cold I rushed a different part of the drawing, and thus the right-hand half is "emptier". I really need to find my gloves!
My drawing in its full length. Photo taken in my studio.
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Too windy to get this morning's drawing at its full length, even on video.

The paper doesn't flap about when I'm drawing because I've got it on my lap. Folding it into a concertina makes it easy to carry and lets me make it "smaller" as needed for the wind.

#pleinair #Portsoy #InkDrawing
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Smaller piece of paper today because of the wind, forecast 50mph gusts, which also why I sat on steps here with building blocking most of it.

#pleinair #portsoy #InkDrawing
My hand holding my ink drawing of the old harbour at Portsoy, Scotland, with the scene visible behind it. To my left is the stone wall of a building.
November 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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As I started drawing this morning it began to drizzle and spread the ink, but fortunately it didn't last and the breeze dried my sheet of paper.

#Portsoy #InkDrawing #art
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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🤬 If only there were an invention that could prevent airborne virus transmission. 😷
Screenshot from post on Bluesky that reads: "Resting today after walking 30k steps in London yesterday. The shops were absolutely packed, so hope we're not coming down with anything."
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Coma and Feeding Ghosts are other inspirations. (And your work, obviously.)
Cover of Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls Cover of Coma by Zara Slattery.
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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I recognise the cover of Tangles but haven't read it for some reason. I'll look for a copy, thanks for the reminder.

My desire is to create something as powerful as Lucy Sullivan's "Barking".
Cover of Barking by Lucy Sullivan, drawn figure of a woman with a haunting black dog behind her.
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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As Matt Haig's Truth Pixie tries to teach us:
"There will be people you love,
Who can't stay for ever,
And there will be things you can't fix,
Although you are clever".

(My soulmate stuck a copy of this on my wardrobe.)
Page from The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig. Illustration of sad girl and Truth Pixie with the words "There will be people you love, who can't stay for ever, and there will be things you can't fix, although you are clever".
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Painting in progress, or maybe finished. Will ponder for a few days to decide if it truly needs anything more.
#Portsoy #art #painting
My hand holding a 30x30cm wood panel with a painting of houses on at the top of the hillside of a bit of coast.
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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"Depict frustration"
A Rubik's cube with one row done, outside a window on the ledge.
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Was looking up something on Monet and ended up on National Gallery London website. 🙄🤢🤬
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/clau...
Screenshot. Text reads: Born in Paris, the son of a grocer, Monet grew up in Le Havre. Contact with Eugène Boudin in about 1856 introduced Monet to painting from nature. He was in Paris in 1859 and three years later he entered the studio of Charles Gleyre, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frédéric Bazille. Edouard Manet was an influence on his figure compositions of the 1860s, while the informal style of his later landscapes originated in works such as 'Bathers at La Grenouillère', painted in 1869 when Monet worked with Renoir at Bougival. Monet was the leading French Impressionist landscape painter. Like Camille Pissarro and Charles-François Daubigny, Monet moved to London during the Franco-Prussian war (1870-1). After his return to France he lived at Argenteuil (1871-8). Screenshot. Text reads Monet at garden at Giverny Anon, Monet in his garden at Giverny © Musée d'Orsay, Dist RMN/Patrice Schmidt He exhibited in most of the Impressionist exhibitions, beginning in 1874, where the title of one of his paintings led to the naming of the movement. A period of travel followed in the 1880s, and in 1883 he acquired a property at Giverny, north-west of Paris. Thereafter Monet concentrated on the production of the famous series showing a single subject in different lighting conditions, including poplars, haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, and his own garden at Giverny.
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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In the beginning ... translating my plein-air drawings onto a 50x50cm (20") panel using acrylic ink. Working from visual memory built by the various location drawings I did this week.

#painting #art
Wooden panel with Payne's grey on it, lying on my studio table. Using acrylic ink I have painted in the main elements of the scene: hillside, sea, and rooftops.
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Didn't get the houses in today. 😁

#pleinair #Portsoy #InkDrawing
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Was out drawing here again today. New favourite spot. The sun went behind a cloud when I started doing the sea, before that it was much brighter (for northern latitude in November).

#pleinair #drawing #InkDrawing #Portsoy
My pen drawing of part of the rocky sea shore at Portsoy, with houses peeking out the top of the hill. Done with water-soluble black-blur ink, with waterbrush used on the sea area to spread the ink.
November 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Today's drawing.
Pen with water-soluble ink, plus a water brush.

#pleinair #Portsoy #art #inkdrawing
Pen and wash drawing of a piece of coastline at Portsoy, northeast Scotland, with row of houses at the top of the hillside.
November 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Not at all influenced by Joan Eardley's paintings of cottages peeking over the hillside 😁
Acrylic ink on wood panel.
#pleinair #Portsoy #painting
My hand holding my painting against the location I was painting: steep hillside to rocky coast, bits of houses visible at the top.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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First time drawing this view though I have taken photos here several times.

#pleinair #portsoy #InkDrawing
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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A few details from the array of fabulous paintings produced by participants in my Higham Hall workshop last week. Ink, acrylics, collage, mixed media. There's such joy in helping people achieve dreamed-of results in their art.
#Art #Painting #HighamHall
Composite image of nine details from paintings: seascapes, sunflower, sheep, Callanish stones, and one inspired by a holiday in New Mexico (nevermind that my workshop is titled Scottish-scapes!).
October 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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If you were on my Higham Hall painting workshop, you'll know the significance of these three shapes and their potential. 🔺🔴🟥
I found these at Catterline beach where I stopped on my way home.
Three beach pebbles with long shadows, in a square, circular, and triangular shape.
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Higham Hall did its magic again last week. A rewarding painting workshop with an interesting group of women, bonding over a love of paint and art retreats. My thanks to everyone at Higham who together make it such a special place.
(Location: near Cockermouth in the English Lake District.)
Composite photo of shots from inside and outside Higham Hall. It's a magical creative sanctuary.
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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I was telling someone about this map a few days ago. Scotland is the warm south of Scandinavia not the cold north of the UK.
Source: archaeology.co.uk/articles/fea...
An "upside down" map showing the alignment of England and Scotland with Denmark more clearly.
October 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Layers of history in green and grey paint. The courtyard door at Higham Hall (arts and crafts retreats in the English Lake District).
Close up of door handle with grey paint pealing revealing multiple shades of green paint.
October 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Channelling my inner Joan Eardley with some quick pen drawing at Catterline.

#art #drawing #pleinair
My hand holding my line drawing done in black pen of the "lump" at Catterline beach, Scotland, and the sea.
October 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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#PebbleOfTheDay
Anyone recognise the location? (If you're into her paintings you'll probably know.)
My hand holding a greenish pebble with the distinctive "lump" on the beach where artist Joan Eardley painted.
October 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Packet of Walkers Masala Chicken crisps
October 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM