Day 52: Doric Pillars...

...and pesky traffic signage.

There's a good exhibition on about the art of printmaking at the National Gallery of Scotland on the Mound. My favourites were Head of Christ by Claude Mellan, an etching made with a single line circling from his nose out like the groove on an old gramophone record, thickening to give shading to the face, thinning again for lighter areas. Check it out on the link, it's pretty amazing close up.

The other ones I liked for pure humour, were William Hogarth's pair of prints called Beer Street and Gin Lane, showing Beer as the elixir of a productive and affluent life and Gin being the devil's brew, from which no good can come (sometimes I feel the same way).

It was considered dangerous, pesky, foreign muck. Ironic really since it's now considered as British as the Queen Mother.

(feel free to add your own punchline).