meldrum artMy name is David Meldrum. I am an Artist who loves watercolour.
Inspired by my watercolour sketches from the weekend I did another boat sketch today during my lunch break. I found my reference image on Google, I searched using the words, ‘Sailing and Archipelago’. The white foam created by the boat was achieved with office Tipp-Ex. 🙂
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| Lunch Sketch 20130702 |
It’s summer time and most people in Sweden disappear to relax and enjoy the short season of warmth. Either this or they are busy getting everything done before they take their holidays. So this month, I was the sole sketcher representing, ‘The Stockholm Sketchers’ group. It would have been nice with some company but I still had a lovely day.
I discovered that sketching boats isn’t easy, there is so much detail; so it’s a question of what one should leave out and what one should add to improve the picture. I’m happy enough with these two watercolours, sure – I made mistakes, I learned from them and I look forward to sketching boats again soon to see if I have indeed learned something.
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| Violette, Skeppsholm, Stockholm, 20130630 |
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| Leo, Skeppsholm, Stockholm, 20130630 |
I went out for a ride on my new bike this morning, saw this little van and I just had to sketch it.
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| Biro, A6 moleskin, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, 20130629 |
Stockholm is empty on midsummer’s eve, only tourists walk the streets. Swedes are celebrating the year’s mid-point out in the country side and the archipelago. I decided to go for a cycle into town late in the afternoon and did this watercolour sketch of Stockholm’s Town Hall.
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| Stockholm Town Hall, A5 watercolour, Moleskin note book. |
Ha, I squeezed in this sketch into my lunch break too!
No opportunities to watercolour at the moment. A quick sketch from my screen at work the only possibility.
For the last three weeks we’ve had a carpenter re flooring the apartment. It’s was a crazy idea to live there while it was being done, and painting watercolours was just not a possibility. Anyway, the apartment is finished now and it’s looking great. Once all the dust has been removed, and the furniture put back in place – I’ll be back in business. Last night I did this quick sketch, I had no reference, so it’s from the mind, strange place; my mind.
Venue: Konstnärshuset
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| Five minute watercolour sketch |
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| Five minute watercolour sketch |
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| Five minute watercolour sketch |
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| Two minute pencil sketch |
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| Two minute pencil sketch |
I sketched this bored traveller in the airport bar on the way home from France at the weekend.
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| Bored |