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I joined DA back in June 2004. Therefore, June 2024 marks the twentieth anniversary of my joining DeviantArt. This is pretty shocking. On the other hand, I do enjoy having so much history in one place. After several international moves, this is probably the best place to see my art all in one place. On the topic of international moves, I've changed countries once again... I started a job as a university lecturer at Tallinn University in Estonia in September 2023, so moved to the Baltic countries. This is finally a permanent academic job of the kind I've been chasing for the past 10 years. The job has kept me very busy, so I there is not much art from 2023-2024. Now I've got some holidays, so hopefully there will be more and maybe I'll even post it here... can't promise to be very active on DA though, as I don't really enjoy its present incarnation...

One of the things I’ve been happiest with in Edinburgh is how active the art scene is over here. There is a lot going on from Urban Sketching to the very friendly if packed Leith School of Art. There are also a couple of very nice series of life drawing classes, which I try to attend semi-regularly.  Unfortunately due to corona virus lockdown business can’t go on as usual. Like so many other things, these events are moving online. On the positive side, this of course means that you can join them from wherever you are in the world :) So, if you want to check out how we roll life-drawing-wise, here’s your chance. Reconfigure , organised by t...

This is a bit out of my comfort zone, since I don’t really work in ink normally and haven’t done something like this before, but I hereby promise to take part in Inktober: make an ink drawing every day and post it here. More:https://inktober.com/rules