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Author: meldrum
My name is David Meldrum. I am an Artist who loves watercolour.
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Paola Troilo
Paola uses Photoshop and finger painting to create his works. His official website is, http://www.troilo54.com/.
troilo_handpainting from paolo troilo on Vimeo.
Raitune5 – Scuba ♪ Paolo Troilo ♦ 10.06.2012 from MigUel on Vimeo.
After one hour this painting was going real well. The pencil drawing was fine and the first watercolour wash felt good.
Then, for the last hour of the session I painted layer upon layer of bad decisions. By the end of the session I was totally frustrated at my limited technique. So I scrubbed a lot of the pigment from the model’s face, dropped it into my carrying case and went home grumpier than a newly-woken bear.
When I got home, I took a large black pencil to the painting and what you see below is the result. I’m actually happy with it, but I still wish I could paint better, then I wouldn’t have to use a pencil to rescue the portrait.
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Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm.
I was not able to do any life drawing for a whole week! … So I was very eager to sketch last night. 😉
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I visited Barcelona last week for four days. Mind food! It was so good for me to visit Miro’s museum, Dali’s resting place in Figueres and Gaudi’s Basílica de la Sagrada Família. We also trekked in the mountains north of Barcelona at Montserrat, what a view! Each evening we ate like kings tasting lots of Catalonian delights.
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A quick portrait
A quick portrait I did during two lunch breaks last week. I didn’t get the likeness but it’s not so important to me, my focus is on technique right now…
I had a lot of fun today sketching at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. I met up with Nina Johansson and Marie Flood. I had never visited the museum before so I began the day by taking a tour of the place. It was very interesting. I found it a bit uncomfortable looking at so many stuffed animals but then again they did not move, which makes life easier for a sketcher. I discovered today that Polar bears are very difficult to draw and watercolouring in a dimly lit museum is challenging to say the least. …But like I said in the beginning, it was fun.
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Understanding Francis Bacon
This documentary by Arena, BBC, reveals a lot about the person – Francis Bacon.
Venue: ABF, Stockholm, 20130326
The usual Tuesday life drawing at Konstnärshuset was off because of the Easter break, so a number of us visited ABF as an alternative. It was a first time for me, the lady who was running it seemed nice and the model was good. On the minus side though I found the florescent lighting very harsh and it was almost double the price of Konstnärshuset. Granted, tuition was available.
Please note that I usually have more sketches to view than I publish here on Blogger, visit Life Drawing 2013.
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