Category: My Life Drawing

Saturday’s life drawing

Venue: Basis, Stockholm 20160206

We had Saturday life drawing at last. Our old teacher, Harald left town at Christmas and the school had difficulty filling the guy’s shoes obviously. Harald is missed but the new teacher seems promising. He got his art education in Budapest so that’s interesting at least. He changed the amount of time we spent on each pose after the first two five minute ones. He made them shorter, very short – one minute ones! Funny but after a series of one minute poses we moved up to two minute poses and then it felt we had ages to complete a sketch.

3 minute pose

2 minute pose

4 minute pose

2 minute poses

2 minute pose

3 minute pose

2 minute pose

5 minute pose

1 minute poses

David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Sketch

Tuesday’s life drawing

Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20160202

I enjoyed this life drawing session. I was happy with most of my sketches which rarely happens. I was trying out a new charcoal pencil, a Kuelox Charcoal pencil – 1803 Soft. I liked it a lot, the only negative is that the pencil is very hard to sharpen without shattering the compressed coal.
Rosa, the model is an ex-circus artist who is very strong, her figure is quite short and stocky. She’s a great model and I’ve been drawing her since the very start, but these days I tend to stretch her, I make her taller than she really is in my sketches. I guess it is to suit my ideal female form, it’s my artistic licence, sorry about that Rosa if you ever happen to stumble over this post.

5 minute sketch

2 minute sketch

5 minute sketch

10 minute sketch

5 minute sketch

2 minute sketch

5 minute sketch

2 minute sketch

David Meldrum figure drawing figure painting My Life Drawing Nude watercolor Watercolour

Sunday Nude

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2016/02/01
2 Comments on Sunday Nude

I spent the whole day yesterday drawing and painting. First I met up with fellow Stockholm – Urbansketchers. We gathered outside the library at Kulturhuset which is a large cultural centre in the middle of Stockholm. Later in the day some of us attended life drawing at Konstnärshuset, this watercolour took 40 minutes. It was challenging because I had to paint wet on wet most of the time. I had to apply thick paint for the eyes, otherwise the damp paper would have blurred them out of recognition. If you would like to see my urban-sketches please visit here.

Sunday figure painting

David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Sketch

Last Tuesday’s life drawing

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2016/01/27
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I am having trouble finding good light to photograph my drawings at the moment. It is so grey and dark here in Stockholm these days. I hope the cold weather comes back, at least then we get clear blue skies.
The first two drawing show that I continue to experiment with lost and found areas. I wish to achieve this in my watercolours as well.

Five minute sketch on A3 paper

Two minute sketch on A3 paper

Five minute sketch on A3 paper

Three minute sketch on A3 paper

My Life Drawing

Tuesday’s life drawing

It was the first for 2016. I’m trying to be a bit more careful when I draw, I want to improve and the only way to do that is to get out of the comfort zone.