Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

Louise, Graphite, 3.5 X 5in/ 8.9 X 12.7cm, C.nick, 2013

Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun is one of the artists I admire most. Her paintings of people are expressive. Her use of colour does wonderful things to my synesthetic senses. Cloth is rendered exceptionally in her work, texture, colour, form, everything about it makes you want to reach out and touch it.

Burns Night Chalk Drawing

Burns Night Sidewalk Chalk 2013

Happy Burns Night everyone! This is my sidewalk chalk drawing for Burns night. 

Balyn's Birthday

Taken last year on Balyn's birthday. He loves his books.

Mivarsh Faz

Meeting Mivarsh, Graphite, C.nick, 2012

A drawing of Mivarsh of Impland from the book "The Worm Ouroboros".

Great Hag

This is the first time I’ve ever done anything like this and so I really just playing around. My inspiration is from a folktale of how the Great Hag blocked a spring at the top of Ben Cruachan with a giant stone. Well, one night she fell asleep and the spring flooded the valley below, she was so distraught at seeing lives lost and ruined that she herself turned into a stone. I want to revisit this one day and perhaps make the whole story.

Sidewalk of Knots by C.nick

Sidewalk of Knots

So this is my Celtic knotwork done with sidewalk chalk, charcoal and soft pastels. I got a book about Celtic knots at the library and decided that a sidewalk would be the perfect place to practice this art form. I found that it was very open regarding space and let me think about manging space in ways that were different than how I manage it on paper. It took about three evenings to create and there was a minor mishap with water but for all that it turned out really well.

Wind and Rain

I am FINALLY done! It took much longer than it really needed to. This was inspired by the song "Wind and Rain", a folk song filled with sibling jealousy, murder and haunted musical instruments. I did this with inks and watercolour on calligraphy parchment.


This my favourite version of the song, sung by Julie Fowlis