Sand castles

                                         Size: 8 X  5

                                         Media: ink and watercolour

                                         Pen: fine liner and sable brushes

Been posting on Instagram as very few peeps seem to come here, but I have been playing with watercolours on ink on this one.

Cheers!!

Pretending to build sand castles #doodle #illustration #cartoon #rodmacgregor #thepenmover #ink #unipinfineline #watercolor #schmincke #beach #bucketandspade #holiday #unionjack #sketchbook #sketch #baldy 

TBOY

                                         Size: T

                                         Media: ink and watercolour

                                         Pen: Sailor

If there is a monster in the house, you can rely on TBOY!.....to make him a cuppa.

IF Exotic

                                                                 Size: 185 x 160 mm
                                                                 Media: Ink and watercolour
                                                                 Pens: Various

If you would like to buy the original cartoon please go to my shop!!

Random Writers

                                                             
                                                                 Size: 16 x 19 cms
                                                                 Media: Ink & watercolour
                                                                 Pens: Hero M86 &
                                                                 Pentel waterbush

"Which came first the intestine or the tape worm?"...  "Perhaps all pleasure is only relief."   William S.Burroughs

IF Talent

                                                                 
                                                                Size: 18 x 12 cms
                                                                Media: Mixed
                                                                Pens: Rotring Artpen

IF Suspense

                                                    Size: 18 x 17cms
                                                    Media: Mixed (Ink, watercolour, crayons)
                                                    Pens: Sailor Sapporro, Pentel waterbrush

Thanks Illustration Friday...I am proud to have picked this weeks topic 'Suspense'... I thought the same as I normally do when I first see the word....that's a silly word for an art prompt....Then when I saw my name next to it I realised it wasn't so silly after all !!!!!
                                                       

IF Forward

                                                         
                                        Size: 22 x 11 cms
                                        Media: Ink and watercolour on paper
                                        Pens: Gillott 404 and Pentel waterbrush

IF Obsession

                                  Size: 17 x 22 cms.
                                  Media: Ink and watercolour on paper
                                  Pens: Noodler's Flex pen & Pentel waterbrush

IF theme this week is 'obsession'.. An obsessive sports fan starts to explode!

IF Perennial

                   

                         Size: 21 x 13 cms
                         Media: Ink and Watercolour on paper
                         Pens: Lamy Fountain pen and Pentel waterbrush


The word 'perennial' is this weeks IF theme. One of this words meanings is yearly or once a year. A perennial or per annual bath!

IF Remedy

                             

                          Size: 23 x 19 cms
                          Media: Indian ink, watercolour and paper
                          Pens: Lamy and Noodlers Fountain pen and Pentel Brushpen

                                 

No prizes for guessing that the IF theme this week is ' remedy '...

                     

Pecking order!

                                           Size: 11 x 16 cms
                                           Media: Indian Ink & watercolour on paper
                                           Pens: Noodlers flex nib fountain & pentel waterbrush

My parents are coming to visit us in Spain this week and I told my Dad on Sunday that I would give him his Father's day card when I see him here. I suppose its obvious...he is top of the pecking order! Well he is in Seville at the moment and he will be with us in Valencia this Thursday, so you get to see his card before him!

IF Swept

                                        Size:15 x 21 cms
                                        Media: Indian Ink & water colour on paper
                                        Pen: Noodler's Flex pen & Pentel waterbrush


The topic this week on IF is 'Swept'. When I first thought of the word swept, for some reason the thoughts of a mine-sweeper arrived in my head. I then considered the idea of a diver going down into the murky darkness beneath the waves on a single lifeline to disarm the mine. To add to this theory I decided to draw this with only one pen line and not take my pen off the paper until I was finished. I realise I didn't end up with an amazing Work of Art, but I wanted to share the experimental nature of this drawing!
                                         

Animen..The trapped beasts

                                     Size: 18 x 13 cms
                                     Media: Indian ink & watercolour on paper
                                     Pens: Lamy fountain pen and Pentel waterbrush

                                       Size: 12 x 14cms
                                       Media: Indian ink & watercolour on paper
                                       Pens: Lamy/Sailor Fountain pens & Pentel waterbrush

                                             Size: 12 x 21 cms
                                             Media: Indian ink & watercolour on paper
                                             Pens: Lamy/Sailor Fountain pens & Pentel waterbrush.


A continuation of last week's post of studies for mid-life crisis. A follow up from the guy who said  "I want to run wild this weekend!" Trapped in the 'cage' of work all week, the escaped animal is free at the weekend.

Studies for Mid Life Crisis

                                          Size: 13 x 16 cms
                                          Media: Indian Ink & Water Colour on paper
                                          Pens: Lamy Fountain pen and Pentel water brush
                                          Copyright 2011 Rod MacGregor

                                          Size : 16 x 24 cms
                                          Media: Indian Ink and watercolour on paper
                                          Pens: Lamy Fountain pen & Pentel water brush
                                          Copyright 2011 Rod MacGregor

                                          Size: 16 x 24 cms
                                          Media: Indian Ink and watercolour
                                          Pens: Lamy Fountain pen and Pentel water brush
                                          Copyright 2011 Rod MacGregor

                           

                                          Copyright 2011 Rod MacGregor

Some of the various character studies I made this week about mid life crisis and life away from work. I have tried to steer clear of the constraints of copying from life and therefore giving myself the freedom to draw directly from my mind..I enjoyed this and will probably do more.