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Busy busy busy

Life drawing - Meldrum Art

I’ve been really busy lately which is a positive thing but it means I find it hard to publish my art. I was at Konstnärshuset yesterday but these are not those sketches because these are from the week before! I think the model’s name is Dennis but I’m not 100 about that. He’s very good, definitely one of my favourite male-models.

Sketched on A3 paper using charcoal pencil and charcoal dust that I apply with my finger.

Life drawing – Meldrum Art

Tags croquis, figuredrawing, konsnnärshuset, kroki, lifedrawing, male, malenude, meldrum, meldrumkroki, meldrumlifedrawing, nude, Sketch, Stockholm

figure drawing My Life Drawing Nudes

Interesting people

Meldrum kroki

I think most people I meet are interesting but some stand out a bit more than others. Sofie, last weeks model at Meldrum Kroki is a good example of this. She is an excellent life drawing model and has very feminine poses in her repertoire so I was surprised that she fixes roofs around town during the day. There isn’t an English word for what she does (Plåtslagare), most of the roofs in Stockholm have metal or copper roofs so you could say she is a metalworker.

Sketched on Canson Recylé A4 paper with 2B and 9B grafite.

A David Meldrum life drawing

Meldrum kroki

Tags croquis, female, femalenude, figuredrawing, finnberget, kroki, lifedrawing, lifemodel, meldrum, meldrumkroki, modell, nude, sofie, Stockholm

figure drawing My Life Drawing Nudes Sketch

This year’s s first life drawing

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2018/01/19
2 Comments on This year’s s first life drawing

David Meldrum Kroki - Life drawing

Yes, so nice to be life drawing again after the Christmas break.
I took myself to Konstnärshuset Tuesday. The model, Elena was excellent as always. The lighting is so good at this venue, having a good model too is very inspiring.
My Life drawing (Meldrum Kroki) started last night (Thursday). It’s proving very popular, my living room was totally full of enthusiastic sketchers. The model, Kinda was great, everyone was delighted with her. I will publish some drawings in the next few days. That’s that, now I’m off to lunch in town. I’m going to treat myself to my favourite Sushi restaurant, Ichiban.

David Meldrum Kroki – Life drawing

Tags art, croquis, female, figuredrawing, konstnärshuset, kroki, lifedrawing, modell, nude, nudes, Sketch, sketching, Stockholm

Sketch Watercolour

Sandhamn – sketch #3

Dog approaching Sandhamn beach

This was a fun sketch to do. I didn’t take me long and I am happy with the result. I will definitely paint a finished version of it in the future. I am obsessed with capturing the light, I think there is nothing more beautiful than the rays of sunshine.

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Tags akvarell, aquarelle, archipelago, davidmeldrum, meldrum, meldrumart, sandhamn, skärgård, skärgården, Sketch, skiss, Stockholm, watercolor, Watercolour

Sketch Watercolour

Sandhamn – sketch #2

Sandhamn radar reflector beacon

This is a radar reflector beacon on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago. Not easy to guess what it is I know. It was such a strange object to approach on the lonely windswept beach, a little spooky – cold metal with sharp, angular form.
The sketch is about A5 in size and painted in my Moleskin watercolour journal.

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Tags akvarell, aquarelle, archipelago, davidmeldrum, meldrum, meldrumart, radarbeacon, sandhamn, skärgård, sketck, skiss, Stockholm, Sweden, usk, watercolor, Watercolour

Sketch Watercolour

Sandhamn – sketch #1

Sandhamn sketch

I have a lovely project to illustrate a book. It is associated with Sandhamn, an island that is a meeting point out in the Stockholm archipelago. This is the first of many sketches I will be doing during this year. It’s a lovely place to visit but I try my best to avoid it during the short summer months – that’s when the flash trash arrive in their oversized pleasure cruisers.
The sketch is about A5 in size and painted in my Moleskin watercolour journal.

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Tags archipelago, davidmeldrum, island, meldrum, meldrumart, ö, ön, skärgård, skärgården, skog, ssandhamn, Stockholm, woods

Watercolour

Sergels torg

Sergels torg by meldrum

I painted this watercolour of Sergels torg almost a month ago but I have just been too busy to publish it. There are a lot of positive things happening in my life these days and 2018 promises to be very exciting indeed. I feel very lucky, I really do.

I have included a A5 preparation-sketch of the same watercolour, I am showing this because there are certain elements in it that I have not achieved in the larger work. Saying this, there are certain things in the larger one that are better too. I do feel I will paint this scene again, I really enjoyed it.

The final watercolour is 50 x 70 cm
(Arches rough, Full imperial)

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Tags akvarell, aquarelle, fullimperial, sergelstorg, Stockholm, watercolor, Watercolour

figure drawing Nudes Sketch

Quickies

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2017/11/19
2 Comments on Quickies

Meldrum life drawing

Saturday’s life drawing just gets faster and faster. I am enjoying the fact that I am starting to understand that what you do not draw is as important as what you do. All drawings were 1 to 2 minutes long. Sketched with charcoal on A3 paper.

Meldrum life drawing

Tags basis, charcoal, figuredrawing, kroki, lifedrawing, Sketch, Stockholm

Sketch watercolor Watercolour

From my sketchbook

I am having a lot of fun playing with light and shadow right now. These two photos show a little of the technique I use. It’s sketched on Moleskin watercolour paper which really sucks because it doesn’t if you know what I mean. It doesn’t matter though, I use the sketchbook for learning porpoises.

Today, I cycled around Stockholm for hours taking pictures of buildings in the autumn sunlight. I think the more technique you learn the more interesting watercolour becomes. I am totally fascinated by it.

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, Sketch, sketchbook, skiss, Stockholm, stockhom, watercolor, Watercolour