meldrum artI have to admit I struggled with this model. Her poses were mostly complex and her body was nymph like in appearance but I must say she was very good. I have no complaints, it was a pleasure to struggle over such things.
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Venue: Basis, Stockholm 20160206
We had Saturday life drawing at last. Our old teacher, Harald left town at Christmas and the school had difficulty filling the guy’s shoes obviously. Harald is missed but the new teacher seems promising. He got his art education in Budapest so that’s interesting at least. He changed the amount of time we spent on each pose after the first two five minute ones. He made them shorter, very short – one minute ones! Funny but after a series of one minute poses we moved up to two minute poses and then it felt we had ages to complete a sketch.
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Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20160202
I enjoyed this life drawing session. I was happy with most of my sketches which rarely happens. I was trying out a new charcoal pencil, a Kuelox Charcoal pencil – 1803 Soft. I liked it a lot, the only negative is that the pencil is very hard to sharpen without shattering the compressed coal.
Rosa, the model is an ex-circus artist who is very strong, her figure is quite short and stocky. She’s a great model and I’ve been drawing her since the very start, but these days I tend to stretch her, I make her taller than she really is in my sketches. I guess it is to suit my ideal female form, it’s my artistic licence, sorry about that Rosa if you ever happen to stumble over this post.
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| Sunday figure painting |
I was in Japan just after Christmas. I was visiting my son who has put down roots in Tokyo. It’s an amazing place. This watercolour was painted from a photo I took outside a bazaar in Nasukarasuyama north of Tokyo.
Arches rough 300g 50 x 32.5 cm
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