Author: meldrum

My name is David Meldrum. I am an Artist who loves watercolour.

Porn?

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2013/08/18
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Firstly, I would just like to say that I am very happy with the execution of this painting. It was the first time I used 100% cotton paper (Arches Rough, 300gsm), and wow, what a difference it makes. It is so much easier to paint on high quality paper.
The only problem I have with this painting is the subject matter. Why is it that a naked person who looks you in the eye, feel pornographic? Why do naked models who look away from you or have their eyes closed feel like classic art nudes? I have a problem with this, Lucian Freud did not but then again, he was not exactly glamorising his subjects either. The next nude I paint will have a cloth over her head, let’s see how that feels!
I paint, I learn and I paint some more…

Autumn, watercolour nude by David Meldrum

Autumn, 38 x 76cm / 15 x 22″

David Meldrum Lunch Sketch Naked Hands Sketch Watercolour

Two naked hands

I managed to draw and paint two hands during my lunch break today. I’m quite happy with them, it’s difficult to paint on such a small format. I feel that my watercolouring skills are improving, this feels very rewarding.

David Meldrum Lunch Sketch Naked Hands Sketch Watercolour

Naked hands

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2013/08/13
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Lunch sketch painted in my mini-watercolour Moleskin.

David Meldrum figure painting Lunch Sketch Nude Watercolouring

Introducing The Naked Hand

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2013/08/10
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I try and do a sketch or a painting during my lunch break at work as often as possible. I really would like to practice my figure painting but having pictures of naked people on my computer screen is a bit of a sensitive issue to say the least. So, I have found the solution – hands! Yes, naked hands! Nude hands! It’s genius, I can practice my watercolour skin tones and hand drawing at the same time. Only I see the naked truth.

The Naked Hand watercolour by David Meldrum

The Naked Hand (24x32cm, Canson 200 g/m²)

David Meldrum Sketch urban sketching Watercolour Watercolouring

Watercolour sketches from Corfu

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2013/08/07
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I had big plans to do a whole bunch of watercolours on my sailing trip. In reality it was almost impossible to concentrate for any length of time in the 35-36 degrees of heat. Still, I had a wonderful holiday and my batteries are charged. The sketches are A5 in size approximately.

Corfu watercolour sketch by David Meldrum

Reversed perspective. ( It felt right at the time! )

David Meldrum Sketch

Home from Corfu

Here are a few more A5 pencil sketches from my holiday sailing around Corfu. The sketch book was a present from my son. 🙂

David Meldrum Sketch

Sailing around Corfu

I have been sailing around Corfu for the last week. 35 degrees, almost too hot to do anything, even sketch. 😉

David Meldrum Watercolour

The big French challenge

Watercolour of home in Paimpol, France by David Meldum

Paimpol, Brittany, France

Yes, I finished it, the biggest watercolour I’ve ever painted, 56x76cm or 22×30″.
I’m proud that I stuck with it, I learned so much by the endless mistakes I made. As a complete painting I am not totally happy, it is stiff and the uncertainty in my strokes is clear to see. Too much white gouache for highlights almost ruining it in the end. But, I learned so much by not giving up.
Buy good watercolour paper, the one I used was very poor, not cotton, it was closer to toilet paper in quality. I ran out and bought Arches 300g because of the poor nature of the paper I used, so I learned. There was one million things I had never experienced; like how does one paint stones walls? It’s really hard but it will be easier next time. Flowers, I had never painted them before either, not seriously, they were also difficult to master. Ah well, on I go to the next pigmented challenge …

David Meldrum figure drawing figure painting Nude watercolor

Moleskin …

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2013/07/21
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I have a watercolour Moleskin (A5) where I practice my watercolour nudes. I’m trying to do at least one a day. It helps me ignore the real task; finishing the large watercolour that is such a challenge and sits there beside me waiting …

A5 watercolour figure painting