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A5 sketches again

meldrum life drawing

I run my own life drawing session every Thursday evening. I have responsibilities making sure everyone is happy. This means I have no place to sit as all are taken, a full house makes me happy but it does mean that I have to stand in the background and sketch the best I can. This is why I am using a small A5 sketch book, it is small and easy to hold.
The model is an artist from Syria, she was very good and I hope she will return to Meldrum Kroki early next year.

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Tags croquis, female, figuredrawing, kroki, lifedrawing, meldrum, meldrumkroki, model, modell, nude, Sketch

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A5 sketches

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2017/11/12
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meldrum life drawing

We had another great model at Meldrum Kroki last Thursday. Mollie is new to modelling but I thought her approach was very professional. I sketched on an A5 spiral-bound block. I often have to sketch standing with the use of no table or easel. I am the organiser of the event so I don’t get the best view or position to draw. I really don’t mind, I am really enjoying running my own life drawing session, fixing coffee, chatting and getting to know my life drawing friends a little more every time we meet.

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Tags croquis, figuredrawing, kroki, lifedrawing, meldrum, meldrumkroki, nudes, Sketch

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My very own life drawing class

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2017/11/03
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meldrum life drawing 2017

I feel so lucky, I have my very own life drawing class that I run in my home every Thursday evening. It’s proving to be very popular, I am learning a lot – like not to play music with too much of a beat. Brain Eno and Handel piano concertos seem to be appreciated most. I use studio lighting and that seems to be liked a lot. I at least think the lighting on the model is wonderful compared to the other life drawing venues in town.

Next year I aim to rent a larger space and have more attending Meldrum Kroki each week. But right now I am just taking just one step at a time.

meldrum life drawing 2017

Tags croquis, figuredrawing, kroki, lifedrawing, meldrum, meldrumkroki, model, modell, nude, Sketch

Sketch watercolor Watercolour

From my sketchbook

I am having a lot of fun playing with light and shadow right now. These two photos show a little of the technique I use. It’s sketched on Moleskin watercolour paper which really sucks because it doesn’t if you know what I mean. It doesn’t matter though, I use the sketchbook for learning porpoises.

Today, I cycled around Stockholm for hours taking pictures of buildings in the autumn sunlight. I think the more technique you learn the more interesting watercolour becomes. I am totally fascinated by it.

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, Sketch, sketchbook, skiss, Stockholm, stockhom, watercolor, Watercolour

Sketch Watercolour

Stortorget puzzle.

Stortorget, Stockholm

The name of the square is called Stortorget, the big square. Not much imagination was used in giving it a name.
Anyway, I am trying to find a way of painting it. I have used a typical tourist picture as reference and I have tried to make it interesting from a watercolour point of view. It’s a sketch, so it has lots of faults but I think I am moving in the right direction, even if it is painfully slow.
Looking at it now, I find it is a pity I followed the bright colours of the reference photo, it would have better if the colours were more dampened in tone. Yeah, yeah, the journey of improvement continues…

Watercolour sketchbook Saunders Waterford 28 x 19.

Stortorget, Stockholm

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, gamlastan, oldtown, Sketch, square, Stockholm, stortorget, watercolor, Watercolour

Lunch Sketch Sketch Watercolour

Trying to loosen up.

Gamla Stan

Buildings are a bunch of boxes, straight lines and a few curves, rigid things that demand to be stiff and upright. I am trying to create an impression of what I see – to this point I have failed every time. I enjoy the challenge though, trying to find what is missing.

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, gamlastan, Sketch, Stockholm, watercolor, Watercolour

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Two – three minute poses

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Here are Saturday’s offerings. I was hungover, so I was surprised I was able to sketch at all. All the poses were between 2 and 3 minutes long.
I used to find these sort of poses quite frustrating but these days I know my limits, I know I can only sketch so much. It is therefore important to capture the pose with so few lines as possible. Just one line would be the most optimal.

Why was I hungover? The new management at work does not want me to continue working part-time in 2018. I have to be 100% or leave. At least they want me 100%, that’s not bad. I of course would like to continue part-time as an artist, I have been doing so for two years. I really appreciate that I was allowed time to explore and develop into who I am today. Now I have to decide, do I become a full-time artist or not? … I have already made my mind up, it wasn’t very hard. 2018 is going to be a very exciting year. Stay tuned!

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Tags figuredrawing, kroki, lifedrawing, male, nude, nudes, Sketch

Sketch Video Watercolour

Filming the process with a GoPro

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2017/10/09
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stockholm sketch by meldrum

Sunday was a rainy day here in Stockholm so I stayed in my studio and played with my GoPro camera. I filmed myself painting a sketch in my Moleskin journal. I have an ambition to publish films of my painting process to help others learn from the knowledge that I have gained since I started in 2012. I need to learn how to edit film, next weeks project I guess.

Hopefully I have something to show real soon…

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, gopro, Sketch, video, watercolor, Watercolour

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Tuesday’s life drawing

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I went to Konstnärshuset for the first time this term. I used charcoal dust as well as a charcoal pencil. At one stage Gabriel the model had posed in such a way that I didn’t find it interesting so I drew the sketchers instead.

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Tags croquis, figuredrawing, konstnärshuset, kroki, lifedrawing, Sketch