meldrum artLife drawing at, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20141115
I’m struggling to publish my work at the moment, too busy having fun for the most part. I shouldn’t complain and I won’t.
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| Five minute nude |
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| Five minute nude |
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| Five minute nude |
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| Two minute nude |
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| Five minute nude |
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| Two minute nude |
I had to leave early from last Saturday’s life drawing at Basis here in Stockholm. It wasn’t all bad news though, I left to visit an amateur classical music event and sketched there instead! I’ll publish some of them at a late date.
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| Two minute nude, “Action Björn”. |
I haven’t been able to post on my blog for a while because of workloads and colds etc. I have also been painting and drawing more than usual, but this is a good excuse not to post on one’s blog! Hopefully in the next couple of days I will publish the backlog of work that has accumulated.
These life drawings were done at, “Konstnärshuset” Stockholm 20141111.
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| Ten minute nude |
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| Ten minute nude |
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| Five minute nude |
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| Five minute nude |
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| Two minute nude |
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| Two minute nude |
Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20141104
I struggled last Tuesday. I was still recovering from my illness so I felt tired. I discovered that I need to be really alert when figure drawing, the brain must make thousands of calculations every minute one is sketching. Still, I find it important to just keep going even if the mental hill is steep.
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| 5 minute A3 Fabiano sketch paper |
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| 5 minute A3 Fabiano sketch paper |
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| 5 minute A3 Fabiano sketch paper |
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| 5 minute A3 Fabiano sketch paper |
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| 5 minute A3 Fabiano sketch paper |
Here are the sketches of the nude from Tuesday’s life drawing.
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| 10 minute sketch |
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| 10 minute sketch |
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| 2 minute nude. |
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| 5 minutes |
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| 5 minutes |
Tuesday’s model went to the wrong address so the organiser of the life drawing, Sissel took her place. We sketched her for half an hour until the intended model turned up. I didn’t care, to be honest I think these sketches are more interesting than the nude drawings I did shortly afterwards. Judge yourself.
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| 5 minute sketch. |
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| 5 minute sketch, The Murder Scene. |
I bought two sticks of Derwent XL Charcoal ( Ochre 01 and Sanguine 02 ). They are small and chubby so I don’t know why they call them, XL! But, this is not important – what is important is that I am having lots of fun smudging grated charcoal powder all over my pencil sketches. I used some grated red pastel and black charcoal also in the mix of things. All drawings are on Fabriano A4.
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| 7 minute nude |
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| 5 minute nude |
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| 5 minute nude |
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| 10 minute nude |
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| 5 minute nude |
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| 5 minute nude |
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| 2 minute nude |
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| 2 minute nude |
It was a full-house at Konstnärshuset, I arrived five minutes before the start and there were no seats left. Thankfully, I had my light-weight tripod with me and had no problems standing at the back of the large room. There must have been fifty sketchers that evening. There was a large distance between the model and my failing eyes, I couldn’t see small details but when I think about it, maybe that was a good thing.
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| 5 minute nude. Fabriano A4 |
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| 2 minute nude. Fabriano A4 |
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| 5 minute nude. Fabriano A4 |