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Coffee and sketching with my friends

Last Sunday, my sketching friends and I met up at Kulturhuset just off Sergels torg. It’s in the centre of Stockholm.

We were sitting in the large café on the 3rd floor. Some of us sat by the large windows looking down into the square. Plattan. The square gives you the urge to walk quickly through it. If you want, you can buy some drugs from the dealers in the shadows. You can also demonstrate against something that is unjust. There are no trees, no sign of nature anywhere, the wind bites.

The coffee, the carrot cake and the good company cheered me up a little. I was happy with the sketch too, it captured the moment.

Title: Plattan 17 x 13 cm.

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akvarell watercolor Watercolour

A studio painting of Djurgårdens canal

Every autumn the canal on Djurgården here in Stockholm becomes spectacularly beautiful. I noticed that the left hand side of the composition was cool and the people were in the shade. The trees on the other side of the canal were flaming reds and yellows. I tried to capture it, the impression I feel when I visit each year. I’ll probably paint the scene a few more times until I feel satisfied. I think this is a good start though.

Djurgårdsbrunnskanalen 52 x 34 cm

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Sketch watercolor Watercolour

The suitcase seller


I met up with my sketching friends and had coffee (fika) at Gretas café. Wet snow, grey sky and a bleak town square. It was nice to sit indoors and watch the world through glass windows. All seven of us sketched, it was lovely. ( 12 x 18 cm )

A watercolour of a suitcase seller on Hötorget, Stockholm.

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Happy New Year!

I spent a few hours on new year’s eve with my dear sketching friends. It was too cold to meet outside so we sketched in the Central Station. My little painting is 18 x 11 cm in size.