Billy Connolly says Elton John inspired new artwork

One of the artworks is Saturday Night which shows a rock 'n' roll piano player in action.

Sir Billy says the character in the drawing "does that leg thing which is pure Elton".

The comedian, who is also a talented musician, toured America with Sir Elton in 1976 and says he could not believe what a performer he was.

"When I saw Jerry lee Lewis I thought it was the best thing I'd ever seen apart from Little Richard - and then I saw Elton," he says.

The drawing shows the flamboyant piano player with his leg on the keyboard and a stool overturned behind him.

"It was that point of the show where he backheeled the stool and it tumbled off the stage," Sir Billy says.

"The roadies all dived so that it didn't break."

He adds: "I saw Elton lately and he was better than I'd ever seen him.

"He's an amazing performer."

Another of the new works, Fly Away Peter, depicts a "happy guy with birds landing on him".

Sir Billy says he's particularly pleased with the way he has drawn the stripes on the figure's purple jacket and with the bird that peers over his shoulder.

"I like things that make me smile," he says.

Sir Billy describes the drawing as "beautiful".

"It's taken me years to say that," he says.

"I would never dream of saying it before for the chance that somebody would say 'it's crap, you're no good'.

"But I'm quite good. I can make people smile and feel happy. It's great."

The Scottish comedian says the Sausage Tree brings back memories of driving around the Scottish countryside when his daughter Amy was a child.

"We just went on the roads and saw things," he says.

"Once we were near a place called Aberfoyle and we came upon a sausage tree."

It was actually a bush with seed pods hanging from it but his child's delight at seeing a "sausage tree" has stayed with him since.

In his drawing Sunburned, Sir Billy shows a Tartan-clad man whose skin tone is lobster red.

"When I did it I stood back and I thought 'my god, you've got it'," he says.

"It's the colour you go in Scotland when the sun shines on you. It's weird.

"It's not a sunbathing country Scotland.

"I once said the climate in Scotland is June and winter."

Despite the lack of sunshine, Sir Billy says the Scottish climate is "wonderful to experience".

"Scotland is the most extraordinary country," he says.

"It's magical."