Rich Johnson
richajohnson.bsky.social
Rich Johnson
@richajohnson.bsky.social
Drawing and so on.
Darkitecture: buildings that are only there at night. Motorway No. 2.

Not fully assembled yet, but 98 % finished.

#pencil #pencildrawing #architecture #drawingbuildings
April 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A #sketch I'd like to turn into a larger drawing. It evolved out of itself one Saturday morning when I had to go into work. It's called The Endlessly Unfurling Ziggurat of Tedium.

In the next version the lion will be sleeping, not dead. It seems unfair.
April 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Been drawing a featureless concrete pillar with a very small pencil.
April 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Trying to capture the egret drifts appearing like twilight ghosts on the Vietnamese coast🧡
#printmaking #painting
February 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Scots Pine landscape. Charcoal pencil on A2 paper.

#charcoal #drawing #pencil #pencildrawing #trees #treeart
February 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Preview detail. Another large Scots Pine on the way.

#drawing #trees #pencil #charcoal
February 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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New girl finished - just some work to do on her frame. Heading for the Borders Art Fair in Kelso, 14-16 March👍
January 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Porco Rosso (1992)
January 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Ing Printmaker. Also paints. New girl on the easel today..
#painting #workinprogress
January 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Scots Pine, The Great Caledonian Forest. Charcoal pencil on A2 paper. #drawing #pencils #trees
January 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Hunkering down for Storm Éowyn; these frosty pictures are from a dander with @richajohnson.bsky.social earlier in the month.
#winter #scotland
January 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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A collaboration with time: beautifully decayed and damaged daguerreotypes from the studio of one of the most celebrated 19th-century photographers Mathew Brady, who died #onthisday in 1896: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...
January 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
For the past year - a year! - I've been working on a comic adaptation of an M R James ghost story.

I think I'm finished... Maybe still some tidying to do but I'm aware I could find sound reasons to start tweaking every single panel but I think it's time to work out how to release it into the wild.
January 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Thought we'd wait for the fog to lift. It didn't so we went for a dander anyway.
January 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Pencil drawings - 'When the Machines Came.'
January 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Pen drawing, Gregor Samsa. This drawing has taken on something of a life of its own, sometimes with my permission (tattoos!), sometimes not (RedBubble, Etsy, even the New York Times...). But, for the record, this is the original and I drew it. 🙂
January 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Pencil illustration for 'O Whistle and I'll Come To You' by M R James.
January 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Four from a (sort of ongoing) series of modernisations of Hans Holbein's amazing Tudor portraits. Pencil on cartridge paper.
January 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Oil painting - The Price of Fish: Kirkwall.
January 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A placeholder and a hello. Instagram seems to be tailoring itself to make me hate it so I'm giving it what it wants. There had better be cat videos here is all I'm saying.
January 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM