Alistair

@funkyalchemist.bsky.social

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Drawer, makerspace overlord and inveterate tinkerer. Regular forays into baking and cooking

A red & yellow abstract based on the idea of a flower
A small (30cm by 20cm) box containing a mini gallery sits on top of a box with books
Festive themed napkin showing a cartoon robin perching on the til of a reindeer. Below them is text “I’m home compostable”
Book, the survivor by Andrew Reid with a bucolic bay, castle and mountain as a backdrop. Entirely at odds with the content
Drawing in red pencil on white paper. A portrait of a woman
Drawing in red pencil on white paper. A portrait of a man
A book nook miniature with lasercut furniture, metal etched tools, 3D printed mug and oodles of scratchbuilding
A drawing in a grey square frame of a bearded grizzled man. White paper with multicoloured pencil
Blind contour pencil drawing on white paper of a treeline, mountains and cloud accented with blue marker pen
Simple drawing of the very top of a mountain shaded in grey against white paper
Sketch in red pencil of Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire
A black book cover with tweezers and a scalpel. Tools are removed and the book opens to reveal a drawing of a frog in coloured pencil, the frog belly opens up to reveal drawn innards and then from a slit in the innards a long strip of paper is pulled out revealing 17 portraits drawn in pencil
Blue and green sketch of a hillside and shadowed mountains
Expressive sketch of Goatfell mountain on Arran viewed from the Brodick side. The hill fills the frame and is painted on broad grey toned strokes
Insanity in blue/grey - a modified missile with canard wings and a tiny cockpit. Stands on skid landing gear. Background is drawn diagram of same
A small pile of notebooks made with various scraps of printer, drawing & envelope papers bound in cardboard from the recycling bin (cereal box, biscuits, readymeal)
Portrait of a woman, drawn in coloured pencil with a background in paint. Paper is a brown paper bag with partially obscured text
A book cover. The Need to Lead, a topgun instructor’s guide to leadership. Complete with gung ho bullshit graphic
A 4 section mandala design in pen with gold and silver highlights against a dark ink background containing fish and a swirling whirlpool
Small sketchbook drawing in ink and pencil of a view out through a window. The view is angled so we are looking to the left with cars, shrubbery and a grand building outside
Small pencil drawing in a sketchbook with a black pencil sitting on left hand side. Drawing is of a waste paper bin with a black bin liner overlapping the upper hand and knotted at the left hand side
A grey and black seascape roughly split in two by the profile of a pier and passenger gantry on the horizon jutting from the right hand side
Sketched portrait on white paper - light red and a mid blue watercolour paint
Long drawing in Charcoal of a dark hilly horizon with grey scrubbed sky. In the leftmost panel there is a tiny neolithic standing stone
Two small sketch portraits in blue biro ink on white paper. Each has a shining gold halo
Car door and sills covered in gaffer tape residue
A whatsapp text reading “The only way up upping the stupidity ante would be for Trump to invoke NATO article 5 saying drugs are an existential threat to the US and to withdraw from the organisation when everyone bar Hungary tells him he is out of his overripe orange”
Photo of confectionery labelled “White Selection Box”
Black and white cartoon drawing - Albert Einstein and an unspecified deity play wheel of fortune for the fate of the 21st Century
Split view of a carved stone frieze showing figures at work and a pencil sketch of the same
Weird old fossil - portrait of a bald bearded man with glasses perched on his head in charcoal pencil
The lowest of low effort pen drawings
A fat man with tiny hands and a too long red tie has his head in an MRI machine. A display shows a void where the brain should be and text saying error
A drawing of a knurled dial with gradations between off, less on, on and more on. The dial points to “less on”
Black ink semi abstract drawing of onion cells - almost regular shapes with black dots at the core, nestled together like a dry stone wall
Optical illusion of a 3D cube covered in a crossword - appears to go into the plane of paper of a sketchbook
Pen drawing in brown tones of Dante and Virgil looking into a pit filled with social media logos.
Pencil drawing of the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry Catriona at Lochranza, Isle of Arran
A dolphin swims in the wake alongside a ferry
Photo of a Yellow Fairey Firefly inside a hangar
A lapel section of a denim jacket with a pen peeking from the pocket and a badge reading “Compassion, Integrity, Competence, Effectiveness”