And with this I come to the last pages of my current sketchbook. Here are two photos showing the last pages. I’ll do a little coloring of one of the images but I think I will leave the city scenes black and white.

My aim in visiting Tain, Scotland, was to learn about a joint effort between researchers at a university in Scotland, a conservation organization, and a distillery to restore the oyster beds in the Firth of Dornoch.

We were fortunate to spend a day doing “citizen science” in surveying some of the coastline and mapping our finds, and a few more days getting to know the community and some of the people working on conservation in the area.

And of course we also toured the distillery, a local museum, a church, and a few other places where we could talk to locals and hear what matters to them. Time well spent. 🎨

Two pen sketches depict scenes of Edinburgh, featuring buildings, streets, and people walking.A detailed sketch showcases people walking by a rocky shore while someone holds a shell fragment, accompanied by a distillery illustration and handwritten notes.