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.