meldrum artMy name is David Meldrum. I am an Artist who loves watercolour.
The biggest problem I have and I guess everybody else is in the same boat, is finding time in ones busy life for hobby activities. I have found that my lunch break is a good time to do a little sketch. Yesterday I tried sketching in the morning, I just took an earlier bus to work and this gave me 15 minutes to have some quality time before arriving at my office desk. Holidays is also a good time to sketch, I need more holidays! 🙂
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| Medborgplatsen, 08.30 |
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| Arholma, Stockholm archipelago |
Here is a recent portrait demo by David Jon Kassan
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| Sketched in the sleepy harbour of Karlby, on the island of Kökar in the Åland archipelago. |
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| The view from my boat on the island of Arholma which is situated in the northern Stockholm archipelago. |
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| Boat house containing a very old livestock transport boat. Cows are moved out to the islands in the archipelago during the the summer months. This was sketched on the island of Arholma in the northern Stockholm archipelago. |
I came home yesterday after a three week holiday sailing around the Ã…land and Stockholm archipelagos. It was a wonderful adventure and I saw some amazing things. I have a number of panoramic sketches from the trip to publish, unfortunately I only managed to scan this little quickie sketch before my scanner suddenly, totally refused to work. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
More sketches coming soon. Anyone got any recommendations for a small, inexpensive scanner?
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| Smart-Phone Dreaming |
A quick sketch in the summer heat using my Hero 86 and Koi watercolour set.
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| Bird Feeder Sketch |
I was working from home today so I was able to sketch the birds outside the kitchen window during my lunch break.
Illustrated with my Hero 86 calligraphy pen.
I ordered it from HongKong a month ago, I thought maybe it would never show up, but it did and this makes me so happy – little kid, happy! Grow up but don’t grow old, as they say.
Hopefully this pen leaks less than my other Hero. It can be purchased on eBay, it’s called a Hero 593 calligraphy pen. My first Pen from China is called a Hero 86 calligraphy pen by the way, I’m am very happy with it even if it is a bit leaky.
Direk Kingnok is a watercolour artist I admire very much, I recently found this interview on a blog called, The Royal Arts: http://theroyalarts.blogspot.se/2011/12/direk-kingnok.html#!/2011/12/direk-kingnok.html
Direk Kingnok’s website: http://www.direkkingnok.com/
His Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Direk-Kingnok-Watercolor-artist/157671970976244
| Watercolour by Direk Kingnok |
I was going to sketch today while I waited for a train at the station but then the honeymoon period between my pen and I came to an abrupt end. I still love drawing with it, I’ll have to try filling it to a third and see what happens.
