Albert Einstein

This is a pencil sketch of Albert Einstein done in an A3 sketchpad.

Here is an extract of the article that I have posted on my other blog that can be viewed here

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"

 ~ Albert Einstein 

The German born physicist Albert Einstein was born on March 14th 1879 in Württemberg, six weeks after his birth he moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at Luitpold Gymnasium. As a child he enjoyed classical music and even played the violin. 

One story that Einstein enjoyed telling about his childhood was of a wonder that he saw when he was about four or five years old: a magnetic compass. Okay this may not seem much with today's technology but the compasses needle's northward swing, guided by an invisible force fascinated Einstein, this wonder could even have been what inspired him to bigger and better things in his adulthood. 

In 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich where he trained as a... 

Roscoff by sunset

We went to Roscoff in Brittany, France during the summer holidays and this is my watercolour painting of Roscoff based on a picture that I took whilst we were there.

Mickey

First of all, I'm sorry that I haven't posted for ages, I've done a lot of art just not posted it! Well anyway, here is one in a long line of paintings/sketches. This sketch is done on cream card and  is of my next door neighbors cat, Mickey.