Alistair
@funkyalchemist.bsky.social
Drawer, makerspace overlord and inveterate tinkerer. Regular forays into baking and cooking
The A-team for the #pencils4tea free quick portrait session on Zoom are unavailable tomorrow so I’m playing host with a space themed playlist. From 6pm (UK time) - 1 pose per song with attendees asked at random(ish) to sit (you can say no) us06web.zoom.us/j/8566703417...
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The A-team for the #pencils4tea free quick portrait session on Zoom are unavailable tomorrow so I’m playing host with a space themed playlist. From 6pm (UK time) - 1 pose per song with attendees asked at random(ish) to sit (you can say no) us06web.zoom.us/j/8566703417...
It has only taken me 25+ years of owning assorted graphite sticks to realise that one of them is actually a water soluble one
Quick invented portrait as kitchen countertop scribble on reused paper while I tried them out
Quick invented portrait as kitchen countertop scribble on reused paper while I tried them out
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It has only taken me 25+ years of owning assorted graphite sticks to realise that one of them is actually a water soluble one
Quick invented portrait as kitchen countertop scribble on reused paper while I tried them out
Quick invented portrait as kitchen countertop scribble on reused paper while I tried them out
The evening set of #drawingisfree portraits done in Neocolour ii water soluble crayons - that completes 1 year of regular online quick portrait drawings. I’ve learned a lot (mainly that I have a lot to learn)
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The evening set of #drawingisfree portraits done in Neocolour ii water soluble crayons - that completes 1 year of regular online quick portrait drawings. I’ve learned a lot (mainly that I have a lot to learn)
Charcoal on old book for this morning’s #drawingisfree Zoom portrait session. One pose per song
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Charcoal on old book for this morning’s #drawingisfree Zoom portrait session. One pose per song
A drawing of WW2 armed trawler HMT Isle of Arran, rough in places as I’m trying to figure out the particular layout of this ship from fairly poor photos
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
A drawing of WW2 armed trawler HMT Isle of Arran, rough in places as I’m trying to figure out the particular layout of this ship from fairly poor photos
Having a rest today and it is chucking it down outside so I built my friend’s Finnieston crane kit design (Clyde Model Dockyard) www.clydemodeldockyard.com/shop/p/finni...
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Having a rest today and it is chucking it down outside so I built my friend’s Finnieston crane kit design (Clyde Model Dockyard) www.clydemodeldockyard.com/shop/p/finni...
Playing with overlapping portraits and then separating using improvised filters (coloured plastic document folders) for Drawing is Free Zoom free session this morning
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Playing with overlapping portraits and then separating using improvised filters (coloured plastic document folders) for Drawing is Free Zoom free session this morning
Today’s scrawl - based on a frieze of medieval masons, Royal Bank Place in Glasgow
November 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Today’s scrawl - based on a frieze of medieval masons, Royal Bank Place in Glasgow
Today’s other drawings - hotel room self portrait in charcoal pencil & pencil sketches of False Killer Whale and Plesiosaur skeletons at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow
October 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today’s other drawings - hotel room self portrait in charcoal pencil & pencil sketches of False Killer Whale and Plesiosaur skeletons at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow
I was feeling really uninspired by today’s “award” prompt for inktober but it occurred to me that I could give myself a participation prize for completing a 2nd year #inktober #inktober2025
October 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I was feeling really uninspired by today’s “award” prompt for inktober but it occurred to me that I could give myself a participation prize for completing a 2nd year #inktober #inktober2025
Day 30 of inktober - “Vacant” #inktober #inktober2025 0.2mm unipin fineliner, graphite and coloured pencil
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Day 30 of inktober - “Vacant” #inktober #inktober2025 0.2mm unipin fineliner, graphite and coloured pencil
A very quick scribble today to keep up with inktober “lesson” #inktober #inktober2025
October 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A very quick scribble today to keep up with inktober “lesson” #inktober #inktober2025
Not that I’ve been influenced by Autumnal leaves or anything but… inktober prompt of the day “skeletal” - I thought of a leaf skeleton shining with an aura #inktober #inktober2025
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Not that I’ve been influenced by Autumnal leaves or anything but… inktober prompt of the day “skeletal” - I thought of a leaf skeleton shining with an aura #inktober #inktober2025
I needed to be packed up and out sharpish after drawingisfree_org so minimalist materials of biro on brown packaging card for today’s portraits
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I needed to be packed up and out sharpish after drawingisfree_org so minimalist materials of biro on brown packaging card for today’s portraits
27th of inktober “onion” - y’all were the kind of kids that had microscopes and would look at onion skin to see the cells, right? #inktober #inktober2025 0.1mm Unipin pen
October 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
27th of inktober “onion” - y’all were the kind of kids that had microscopes and would look at onion skin to see the cells, right? #inktober #inktober2025 0.1mm Unipin pen
inktober day 26 “puzzling” - a quick crossword. All answers are summaries of the answers to: Across 1. Quantum Gravity 2. Fermi Paradox 3. Mechanism of general anaesthesia 4. Baryon asymmetry 5. Nature of consciousness,… #inktober #inktober2025
October 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
inktober day 26 “puzzling” - a quick crossword. All answers are summaries of the answers to: Across 1. Quantum Gravity 2. Fermi Paradox 3. Mechanism of general anaesthesia 4. Baryon asymmetry 5. Nature of consciousness,… #inktober #inktober2025
Oh, satire. inktober day 25 prompt is “inferno” during which Dante & Virgil find a freshly constructed circle #inktober #inktober2025
October 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Oh, satire. inktober day 25 prompt is “inferno” during which Dante & Virgil find a freshly constructed circle #inktober #inktober2025
Just killing time with Catriona, graphite & coloured pencil
October 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Just killing time with Catriona, graphite & coloured pencil
Fellow commuters - missed the ferry leaving and trying to swim to catch it
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Fellow commuters - missed the ferry leaving and trying to swim to catch it
Rush hour in Lamlash is something else - absolute bedlam
October 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Rush hour in Lamlash is something else - absolute bedlam
23rd of inktober “Firefly” - a Fairey Firefly target tug aircraft based on the photo blackskyphoto.com/wp-content/u... #inktober #inktober2025 black & yellow Indian inks
October 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
23rd of inktober “Firefly” - a Fairey Firefly target tug aircraft based on the photo blackskyphoto.com/wp-content/u... #inktober #inktober2025 black & yellow Indian inks
“Button” for Inktober today - I decided to adopt the Americanism of button for badge and to take inspiration from collection.corita.org/piece/82-01 and fondly recall when such qualities seemed like useful things for prospective leaders #inktober #inktober2025
October 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“Button” for Inktober today - I decided to adopt the Americanism of button for badge and to take inspiration from collection.corita.org/piece/82-01 and fondly recall when such qualities seemed like useful things for prospective leaders #inktober #inktober2025
Felt it needed more darkness and texture so went back to it today with charcoal and charcoal pencil
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Felt it needed more darkness and texture so went back to it today with charcoal and charcoal pencil
For today’s @inktober prompt of “blast” I was wondering what Eric Ravilious would have made of the night bomber campaign and ensuing firestorms. Inspiration taken from the photo of an Avro Lancaster against the background of a burning Hamburg. Blue and orange inks #inktober #inktober2025
October 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
For today’s @inktober prompt of “blast” I was wondering what Eric Ravilious would have made of the night bomber campaign and ensuing firestorms. Inspiration taken from the photo of an Avro Lancaster against the background of a burning Hamburg. Blue and orange inks #inktober #inktober2025