meldrum artThis is my second attempt at capturing Egon Schiele’s likeness. I knew shortly after starting that it would not be like him but I continued anyway practising my pencil shading. You may notice that my pencil technique changed a little if you compare the top of the illustration with the bottom. That’s because I watched a YouTube demonstration video on how to shade half way through the portrait (see below).
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| Egon Schiele – not! |
The summer break has arrived and sadly I won’t be life drawing at Basis again until after the summer break – something in September. Feels such a long time away. I am pleased with my efforts from this session, I try hard now to be positive and not let negative thoughts distract me from producing good work. I think my colour toning has improved a lot recently, I’m happy with that. Now I wait until Tuesday to sketch but wait, I might have to choose painting at my new studio instead. What ever I do, there will be sketches and paintings being published on this blog all throughout the summer months 🙂
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| Ten minute watercolour nude |
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| Two minute nude |
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| Ten minute watercolour nude |
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| Five minute watercolour sketch on drawing paper |
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| Ten minute watercolour |
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| Two minute nude |
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20140506
The summer is coming and there are only a few more weeks of life drawing before the break. I am happy with my personal development so far this year, I feel that I’m improving each time I draw and my watercolours have also improved.
Today I received the keys to the studio that I will be renting during the summer months. I am really excited about it, I installed my furniture this evening, feels kinda strange to have a studio, soon I’ll be calling myself an artist!
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| Five minute sketch and watercolour |
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| Two minute sketch |
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| Five minute watercolour |
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| Two minute sketch |
Venue: Basis, Stockholm, 20140329
I was meant to post these sketches over a month ago, I thought I would add a little more detail before publishing. But life has a habit of getting in the way of my art, like this weekend for instance; I had to put my sailing boat in the water and put on the mast and so on. I don’t mind, I enjoy sailing but I want to watercolour more! I don’t have a bad life, if this is my biggest crisis …
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| Nude one |
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| Nude two |
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| Nude three … |
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20140429
It is always nice to have a new model. This lady was a wonderful challenge to draw, she’s from the States I believe, her poses were beautiful.
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| Ten minute pose |
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| Ten minute pose |
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| Five minute pose + a little extra |
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| Five minute pose |
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| Two minute pose |
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| Two minute pose |
Venue: Basis, Stockholm. 20140426
Our model this week was a lady called Kinna. She was excellent at holding elegant and interesting poses. I only wish my sketches could have caught her beauty better. Next time…
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| Ten minute nude. |
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| Ten minute nude |
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| Ten minute nude |
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| Two minute nude |
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| Two minute nude |
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| Five minute nude |
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20140422
It took me a while to get used to this model, I’ve drawn him once before a long time ago. The challenge was to draw his effeminate form and posturing while keeping him masculine at the same time, like I said, it was difficult.
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| Ten minute pose, please click to enlarge on your screen. |
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| Five minute male nude |
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| Ten minute pose |
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| Three – five minute sketch |
Yesterday was the 43rd World SketchCrawl. A sunny day was had in the suburbs of Stockholm with fellow urban sketcher, Nina. Skärholmen central square. We had a lot of fun even if we had a very persistent drunk yapping profanities into ours ears for what seem like several hours.
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| SketchCrawl #43 , Skärholmen, Stockholm |
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| SketchCrawl #43 , Skärholmen, Stockholm |
It was easier than I thought it would be, my first horse. I used a photograph as reference and used both, masking fluid and white gouache for the details. The paper is Arches, 300g, rough, 19 x 28 cm. I enjoyed painting a four legged creature instead of two, I therefore plan to paint more horses in the near future.
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| Click on image to enlarge. |