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Month: July 2015

  • More James Dean on my lunch break

    I painted the same picture again. It’s fun to play around with a simple motif and a small format, the watercolours are 8 x 11.5 cm on Arches rough, 300g.

  • Another waiting for a train sketch

    This was sketched this week too.

  • Waiting for a train

    A little sketch I did on the way to work this week. I wait at Söderstation in Stockholm for my local train most mornings. I’m quite happy to just miss the train because this gives me ten minutes to do a sketch. I then finish the drawing while aboard the train.

  • Lunch break with James Dean

    I wanted to practice my watercolour figures so I chose that rather famous picture of James Dean walking in the rain in New York. I completed these two paintings in half an hour. Speed helps me, I don’t have time to think, when I think everything goes wrong. Each watercolour is 8 x 11,5 cm in size on Arches rough, 300g.

    James Dean on a lunch break. 

  • A model from 1925

    I found a wonderful photo of a nude on the internet, to my surprise I found an original copy on Ebay. I plan to do a large watercolour once I receive the print. The original photo was taken by Heinrich Maass from Berlin and was featured in a book called “Nature & Culture”, a collection of nudes of women from different cultures around the world. It was assembled by Dr. Peter Landow in 1924 & 1925.
    I used a Cretacolor Monolith 9B  for toning on A4 Fabriano Eco Artist paper.

    Drawn from an original photo taken by Heinrich Maass, 1925


  • Lunchtime watercolour

    It’s amazing how hard it is to get back into a routine. Today, I finally started painting again during my lunch break. I mean, it’s been at least two weeks since the last one! I’m such a slacker.

    Lunchtime archipelago. Paper: Arches rough 17 x 12 cm, 20150707.

  • Holiday snap

    I painted this while on holiday in Greece. It takes longer than a photograph but the memory of the occasion is so much stronger because of it.

    Corfu, Greece 20150628. Paper: Arches rough 12 x 17 cm.

  • Weekend sketch

    We are not having the best of summers here in Sweden this year. Last week was great though and I took full advantage of it at the weekend. I set up a hammock by the water’s edge and lay there looking at all the boats going by. I live quite close to the city centre so the traffic on the water is intense at this time of year. I later did this watercolour in my sketchbook, I’m happy with it although I wish I had access to better watercolour sketchbooks than Moleskin, I like Arches Rough and so I always find it disappointing when I use the Moleskin. Still, it’s a sketchbook and it will do fine until it’s finished, I will use small Arches blocks in future. If anyone knows of good watercolour sketchbook, please let me know.

    Sketchbook painting of Waldermarsudde, Stockholm.

    Waldermarsudde

    First wash

  • Sketches from my sailing holiday in Greece.

    Greece, a beautiful place with lovely people. Shame about the trouble it is in. I hope it gets better for them real soon. I spent a week sailing between Corfu and mainland Greece. I had a wonderful time.