This video is a continuation of my first tip on stretching watercolour paper. The difference being this one is much more hands-on, you actually get to see me stretch paper! Yes, only watercolour nerds will find this interesting đ
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Urban Sketching is so much fun
![Gröna lund in Stockholm - cropped image](https://i0.wp.com/www.meldrum.se/meldrum_wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Grona-lund-cropped-P1210306.jpg?fit=1200%2C700&ssl=1)
How to get better painting clouds
![Hooker](https://i0.wp.com/www.meldrum.se/meldrum_wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CutterOnTheHorizen-crooped-P1210290.jpg?fit=1200%2C676&ssl=1)
How does one get better at painting clouds? Well, that was the question I had at the beginning of this week. I admire Sergej Temerev a lot so really it’s not that difficult. I just looked at as many watercolours of his as possible, there is a good Pinterest page featuring his work, here’s the link. I also looked at all the YouTube videos I could find. I’ve done this before but one has to repeat and practice a lot if one wants to get better.
![Hooker on the horizon](https://i0.wp.com/www.meldrum.se/meldrum_wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CutterOnTheHorizen-P1210290.jpg?resize=580%2C821)
Title: Hooker on the horizon. 24 x 34 cm
Studio version
![Gustav Adolf's torg](https://i0.wp.com/www.meldrum.se/meldrum_wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/gustav-adolfs-torg-studio-art.jpg?fit=1200%2C887&ssl=1)
Little India, Singapore
![Little India, Singapore](https://i0.wp.com/www.meldrum.se/meldrum_wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/little-india.jpg?fit=1200%2C789&ssl=1)
This watercolour was inspired by my trip to Little India which is in the southern suburbs of Singapore. I walked down the busy Serangoon road and found this scene, I didn’t have time to take out my sketchbook just then, instead I took a bunch of reference photos.
Singapore is so fascinating. It’s cultural contrasts make the city so vibrant.
I very nearly threw this painting in the bin. If you are curious to know why look at my latest vlog on YouTube.
Sometimes life is simple
![Gustav Adolf's torg](https://i0.wp.com/www.meldrum.se/meldrum_wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/gustav-adolfs-torg.jpg?fit=1200%2C808&ssl=1)
An Urban Sketching memory
![ragtime by david meldrum](https://i0.wp.com/www.meldrum.se/meldrum_wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ragtime.jpg?fit=1200%2C1657&ssl=1)
I don’t remember if the band were playing ragtime, I don’t think so actually – it was jazz standards like Blackbird and stuff. I’ve titled the painting, Ragtime Band anyway because I like the sound of it and I think it suits the watercolour. It’s my painting so I can call it what I want, he he.
I took some reference photos and did a few sketches last December together with my Urban Sketching friends here in Stockholm. We had a great time in a pub I wouldn’t set foot in normally. It was totally nice though and I’m glad I was brought to the venue to discover a little gem in the blandness of a train station shopping mall.
Ragtime Band – Lilla Wien pub, Södra station 26 x 36 cm
Brittany
![paimpol harbour meldrum art](https://i0.wp.com/www.meldrum.se/meldrum_wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/e1ae2338-bee6-4781-86fd-fcc62fb3d27d.jpg?fit=1200%2C889&ssl=1)
I produced a final painting of this scene from Paimpol in Brittany today. The watercolour looks a lot better in reality, I wish I could take professional photographs but I just can’t. I lack the skills necessary. Still, I am happy enough with it, now it’s time to think about the next watercolour and try to improve on previous mistakes.
Back in town
![Stockholm](https://i0.wp.com/www.meldrum.se/meldrum_wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/22dda7ef-8135-4448-a56b-463af4bd7157.jpg?fit=1200%2C1669&ssl=1)