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Himself  - Herself
______Horrific bad weather and my right arm in cast. Not the best recipe for an outdoors holiday in Mull with the Scotstoun Gentlemen’s Club. So I took the opportunity to get some drawing done. Whilst in An Tobar the arts centre in Tobermory after a pretty uncomfortable but enjoyable mountainbike round Loch Frisa, Misha found a great photo of an old Mull couple sitting out side their croft looking stoic, it was clear from looking at their faces that they endured a hard life. The image stuck in my head and this pair are the result of that initial inspiration. I’ve tried to emphasise my impression of these folk and portray a sense of the characters behind the hardship.