meldrum artVenue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20130312
I am taking a pause from watercolours during my Tuesday evening life drawing classes. I want to focus on developing my drawing skills. I am happy with the results, I feel relaxed when I sketch which gives me time to think about composition and execution.
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| A4 paper, 2 minute sketch. 20130312 |
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| A3 paper, 5 minute sketch. 20130312 |
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| A3 paper, 10 minute sketch. 20130312 |
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| A4 paper, 2 minute sketch. 20130312 |
I painted this quickly last Friday during my lunch break. I want to improve my technique, so I practice as often as I can.
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| Watercolour doodle, 20130308 (A4 paper) |
Venue: Basis, Stockholm, 20130309
Pencil and Oil Pastels this day.
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| 10 minutes – A3 paper |
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| 10 minutes – A3 |
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| 10 minutes – A3 |
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| 2 minutes – A4 |
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| 2 minutes – A4 |
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm.
I did not find the model very inspiring, it is very difficult to create good work when one feels this way. Still, I am very happy with the last two sketches of the evening, which were two minute drawings.
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| 2 minute sketch, 20130305 |
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| 2 minute sketch, 20130305 |
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| 5 minute sketch, 20130305 |
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| 5 minute sketch, 20130305 |
Venue, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
I am happy with a lot of my sketches from this session. I focused on trying to keep a single line that is expressive and in no way hesitant. Completing a watercolour sketch in such a short time is challenging, the hardest part is to mix my colours and create the desired skin tones. I use: Naples Yellow, Cerulean Blue and Cadmium Red mostly.
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| 5 minute sketch, 20130226 |
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| 10 minute sketch, 20130226 |
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| 5 minute sketch, 20130226 |
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| 3 minute sketch, 20130226 |
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| 2 minute sketch, 20130226 |
Today, I hung out with the Stockholm Sketchers at the Modern Art Museum here in Stockholm. We meet up on the last Sunday of each month. It was a very enjoyable few hours drinking coffee, chatting and even finding time to draw.
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| Relaxing at the Modern Art Museum, Stockholm. 20130224, A4 Moleskin. |
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| Texting at the Modern Art Museum, Stockholm. 20130224, A4 Moleskin. |
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| Neil Young 20130219 (Pencil on 200g watercolour paper) |
This started out as a watercolour portrait of Neil Young but I just could not stop putting down strokes with my pencil. I spent four lunch breaks doing this, thats about 2 hours work in total I guess.
Venue: The Academy of Realistic Art, Stockholm
I’m happy with this portrait, I feel that I am starting to reap the benifits of all those life drawing sessions – my art is becoming more fluid. Thursday’s life drawing session was 2 hours long in total but in reality, with all the breaks, we had 90 minutes to complete our work.
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| Original size: 508 x 406 mm, watercolour paper 300g. |
An urban sketcher I really admire is Ch’ng Kiah Kiean. He has an architectural background and was born in Penang, Malaysia. His homepage points to three different locations: his Sketch Diary, his Facebook page and Flickr.
