My pen and wash life drawing sketches are improving… At least that’s how it feels to me! 🙂
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| 10 minute pen and wash sketch |
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| 5 minute pen and wash sketch |
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| 5 minute pen and wash sketch |
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| 5 minute pen and wash sketch |
Category: figure drawing
I regularly sketch at Basis on Folkungagatan here in Stockholm. It’s only ten minutes from my home and the 12 o’clock start on a Saturday morning is just perfect for me. The atmosphere is very relaxed and one gets a little tuition for the 100 kronor one pays which is not bad at all. The life drawing session is two hours long.
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| 10 minute pen and wash sketch |
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| 10 minute pen and wash sketch |
Konstnärshuset: Our model did not turn up this week so the organiser whipped her clothes off and saved the day. What a hero!
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| 5 minute pen and wash sketch |
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| 5 minute pen and charcoal sketch |
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| 5 minute pen and wash sketch |
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| Life Drawing 2012 |
Click the above image to see more of my life drawing sketches.
I struggled tonight at my life drawing session, some days one should just do something else.
I completed this watercolour today but really I painted 99% of it last Thursday at my life drawing class. The pose was two hours long with a break for the model every twenty minutes. Click here to see more of my watercolours.
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| Watercolour by David Meldrum |
I continue to sketch at life drawing with pencil and watercolour. Each pose is between five and ten minutes long so one has to be quick doing the initial sketch, with the little time that is left I apply colour as best as I can. Click the images below to see more or click here.
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| Watercolour sketch by David Meldrum |
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| Watercolour sketch by David Meldrum |
I was very happy with the result of this watercolour study, I am starting to get a feel for the medium. It is still a series of mistakes that I somehow patch up but most importantly, I am making fewer mistakes with each painting I do. I painted this yesterday evening at the “The Swedish Academy of Realistic Art” in Bergshamra, Stockholm during a two hour session. I’m still playing with the Charles Reid approach to watercolour painting which is the free use of hot and cold colours.
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| Watercolour by David Meldrum 2012.04.19 |
I spent another evening yesterday life drawing with watercolours, it’s a real challenge both drawing and painting the model in such a short time-span. It was tonnes of fun though! Click the image to see more or click here.
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| 5 minute watercolour sketch by David Meldrum |
Drawing a model in one minute and then painting her by two. It’s fun trying to do the impossible!
I had great fun yesterday painting with primary colours at my life drawing class, I like the fact they are so cheerful, I’ll create more of these Charles Reid influenced sketches, absolutely. Click the image below to see more or click here.
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| 10 minute watercolour sketch by David Meldrum |