Trying hard to clear a backlog of work that needs to be published. Trouble is, I need to paint too.
Nude by Meldrum
Nude by Meldrum
Nude by Meldrum
Nude by Meldrum
Nude by Meldrum
Nude by Meldrum
Category: figure drawing
Here are a few life drawings from Monday last week.
Meldrum – life drawing #1
Meldrum – life drawing #2
Meldrum – life drawing #3
Meldrum – life drawing #4
In the evening of my first day following my tough new artist week schedule I went to life drawing. At this stage my food intolerance was setting in big time, I had eaten something that did not agree with me. I made it through the first half of the session but I was in too much pain and too tired to continue in the second half of the evening. I think it shows in the sketches I did, I haven’t shown the bad ones of course but I think I struggled with them all, at least it felt that way.
I was proud that I was able to produce so much in one day, I hope to continue doing this in the future, like I said in an earlier post – I’m not well today so no watercolours and no schedule was followed, hopefully in a couple of days I’ll be back on track.
My first life drawing since the spring and I decided to use my watercolours. I used cheap Canson watercolour paper, I hate it compared to Arches or Fabriano but it’s just too expensive to waste a block of quality paper during a life drawing session. I used Koo i noor woodless watercolour sticks for the first time, I really liked them so I’ll be using them a lot in future. Each of these watercolours took five minutes to complete, at that speed one cannot hesitate – a quick line sketch of the figure and then paint as much as you can in the remaining time before the pose ends. It’s stressful for sure but I find it exhilarating.
Five minute watercolour figure painting
Five minute watercolour figure painting
Five minute watercolour figure painting
Five minute watercolour figure painting
Five minute watercolour figure painting
Five minute watercolour figure painting
Venue: Basis, Stockholm 20160402
I tried something new yesterday and I was very happy with the result. I used a liner brush and W&N sepia watercolour paint. The poses were quickies ranging from 2, 3,4 and 5 minutes. I will be doing this again in the future, this is guaranteed 🙂
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Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm 20160322
These life drawings are from two weeks ago. I was not in good form that evening, I left half way through in fact. We were moved to a smaller room with bad lighting. I wasn’t inspired so I left, that doesn’t happen so often, actually it has never happened before. I’ll give Tuesday’s a break for a while, until I feel the hunger again.
The venue was Konstnärshuset 20160315
I bought a new camera yesterday so I hope to take better photos of my work in future. I’ve had dirt on the sensor of my old camera for ages, very annoying. If you look to the top right of the first two images you will see what I mean.
Happy Easter!
Categories
backlog
I am scanning my life drawings and watercolours at last. Like I said in my last post, I’ve been too busy. I sketched these at Basis, the model was Lars, otherwise known as Action Bear.
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I sketched these a couple of weeks back. I’ve been too busy at work to find enough time for my art. But that has come to an end now as it the beginning of my two week shift as an artist. For those of you who don’t know me, I recently started working 50% as an artist back in October. Two weeks on, then two weeks off type of thing. I’ll be publishing more in the next couple of days.
