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Category: lunch watercolour

  • Archipelago

    Archipelago

    I am still sketching in the Stockholm archipelago. I find endless inspiration here.
    17.5 x 13 cm

  • Lunchtime watercolour

    This is one of my lunchtime watercolours from during the week. Last year I visited Brittany, France. I took a blurred photo from the speeding train outside Paris on my way to the west. The wheat fields with their islands of trees reminded me of the Stockholm archipelago.

    Wheat fields outside Paris 30 x 24

  • Lunchtime watercolour

    Waiting for Västan. 31 x23 cm Arches rough 300g

    It took me two lunch breaks to paint this. I’ve been studying Chien Chung Wei, I feel very inspired learning from him, I bought his book and DVD. The problem now is that the hill just got much higher as I regard his work so highly. I of course want to be as good as Chein Chung Wei and Joseph Zbukvic, I put a lot of pressure on myself to improve. I need goals, trying to be as good as the masters is one and enjoying myself is the other.

  • Two quickies

    Here are two quick watercolours I did during the last month.

    Seascape 20150813, 11,5 x 7,8 cm, Fabriano fne grain 300g

    Trawler 20150912 11,5 x 7,8 cm, Fabriano fne grain 300g

  • Lunchtime watercolour

    This was lunchtime watercolour was initially a failure. I made a mistake and I thought the painting was ruined. So I relaxed and played around with it, did things that I wouldn’t normally do like scratch the surface. In the end I was quite happy wit the result. “One should never give up on a painting!”, is the the moral of the story I guess.

    Arches rough, 300g, 31 x 23 cm

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • Rather extreme lunchtime painting

    Not happy with one watercolour during my lunch break I attempted three. Each was painted on different paper. I wanted to see how the pigment reacted on each. Arches rough, Fabriano fine grain and Fabriano satin. I enjoy working at speed but this was pushing it a bit! 😉