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Sarah Coomer

@sarahcoomer.bsky.social

Edinburgh-based artist/illustrator. Folio Society Book Illustration Award 2022 Shortlist. Heraldic artist for the Lyon Court. Rep’d by Paul Moreton at @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sarahcoomer

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Nick Tankard@nicktankard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An illustration I did for The Small Hand by Susan Hill. This story was published together with The Woman in Black in a nice hardback edition in 2024 by Vintage Classics. Signed giclee print £75 free UK P&P Email: nicktankardart@gmail.com for worldwide shipping costs and enquiries. Thank you.

An illustration of a narrow country lane surrounded by hedges and a small patch of woodland. Through the spindly bare winter trees a shape of a large house in silhouette against a stormy looking sky, great big clouds and a flock of jackdaw. A lone figure stands on the lane in the foreground, it stares at the house. Spooky and atmospheric. Black crosshatched pen and rolled block printing ink applied with a rubber roller.
Sarah Coomer@sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nighthouse… something I’ve been faffing with for a while now. A fictionalised view from Coille Ghillie in Applecross (there’s no castle or lighthouse, never mind one like this). It’s a bit clunky and I’m not sure where to go with it from here (maybe a picture book).

Sarah Coomer@sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nighthouse… something I’ve been faffing with for a while now. A fictionalised view from Coille Ghillie in Applecross (there’s no castle or lighthouse, never mind one like this). It’s a bit clunky and I’m not sure where to go with it from here (maybe a picture book).

Sarah Coomer@sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hello from this spooky little scamp! I am currently in the middle of moving house. No studio / brain power (on top of ongoing boring burn out. BORING) so not drawing anything I’m inclined to post. But I actually had fun doing this so I might do a few more of these photo collagey type things.

A ghostly child grinning on a shiplap clad landing. Black and white photo collage thing.
Sarah Coomer@sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Todays Brontë adjacent foofling: drawing from a screen grab of the BBC’s adaptation of the Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (on iPlayer now if you fancy watching it). Trying out watercolour pencils.

A colour sketch in watercolour pencil crayons of Tara Fitzgerald (on the right, in the foreground in profile) and Toby Stephens (on the left in the background) in the BBC’s adaptation of Anne Brontë’s novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Sarah Coomer@sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Can't really get anywhere near actually drawing anything at the moment... too much going on at home. But I did manage to take five minutes to faff around with the Photo Booth app on my iPad, transforming a few recent drawings. Quite addictive.

A black and white pencil drawing of some stuffed deer heads put through a kaleidoscope app.A pencil drawing of a chimney and some clouds put through a kaleidoscope app.A pencil drawing of a shadow of a pointed finger against a wall with small framed pictures put through a kaleidoscope app.A black and white pen sketch of a clump of trees on a hill put through a kaleidoscope app
Sarah Coomer@sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Can't really get anywhere near actually drawing anything at the moment... too much going on at home. But I did manage to take five minutes to faff around with the Photo Booth app on my iPad, transforming a few recent drawings. Quite addictive.

A black and white pencil drawing of some stuffed deer heads put through a kaleidoscope app.A pencil drawing of a chimney and some clouds put through a kaleidoscope app.A pencil drawing of a shadow of a pointed finger against a wall with small framed pictures put through a kaleidoscope app.A black and white pen sketch of a clump of trees on a hill put through a kaleidoscope app
Sarah Coomer@sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Into the mouth of the beast… faffing around with a slightly daft version of Dracula’s castle based increasingly roughly on that portrait of Vlad the Impaler. I did a black and white version too which I (obviously) almost prefer…

An illustration of Dracula’s castle based on a portrait of Vlad the impaler. A man approaches the castle on foot. There’s a massive spectral wolf waiting to greet him and a mysterious ring of white fire burning next to the path. A black and white version of an illustration of Dracula’s castle based on a portrait of Vlad the impaler. A man approaches the castle on foot. There’s a massive spectral wolf waiting to greet him and a mysterious ring of white fire burning next to the path.
Sarah Coomer@sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hello! Long time no see! Here’s today’s WIP, a pencil crayon drawing of Tom Durie, jester to Anne of Denmark, from Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger 1614 portrait. I started this intending to do a scribbly, scratchy, quick thing but I don’t seem to be able to do that.

A very unfinished pencil crayon drawing of Tom Durie, jester to Anne of Denmark, from Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger's 1614 portrait.
Nick Tankard@nicktankard.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I left my old job a couple of years ago. I’m getting by (just) but crikey, having done my tax return & seen how little I’m earning it was a shocker, it’s getting more & more difficult to earn money from illustration. I have been out of action too so…I’ll get cracking! Buy my art (FEBRUARY) 🙏🏻

A black pen in a crosshatch technique and black block printing ink applied with a roller on white paper illustration. The dark silhouetted shape of a woman in a black funeral dress stands at the foot of a bed in an Edwardian style room, she stares at a tired looking man under a heavy quilt. Moonlight shines into the room from behind the woman. Creepy and atmospheric.
Graeme Swanson@swansonian.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy Burns Night. A more important national day than St Andrew’s and it’s for a poet. My art isn’t very Scottish (people who don’t know me often guess I’m Irish for some reason) but there are occasional clues.

A very rough some would describe as “poor” sketch of a giant stag with a tiny head. Alan of the Glen is written next to it. Ghosts of Scottish churchyards shows a huge ghost dressed in tartan outside a rain swept church and graveyard THE LAST THiNG I REMEMBER BEFORE I LOST MY CLOTHES shows a highland cow with glowing eyesThis one is called hashtag visit Scotland and is one of my most popular prints. It shows a highland cow on two legs with misty hills and a farmhouse behind her
Brian Joseph McHenry@brianmchenry.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It’s Robert Burns’ birthday and in there somewhere in my Michael Marra, Neil Gow, Dougie Maclean, growing up in Ayr tribute to socialist folks wandering about the hills of a weekend in the 1950’s pointing at things.

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