A little seascape completed during my lunch break.
Size: 14 x 9 cm på Fabriano HP 300g papper.
20150323
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| Seascape |
Category: Sketch
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Nordic watercolouring
Last Friday we went fishing on a frozen lake in Ljungdalen in the north of Sweden. The ice was one metre thick and it took us 30 minutes travelling uphill on our cross country skies to reach the lake. I painted, the water froze and the colour pigment behaved very weird on my paper but as luck would have it, I brought along my new mini-gas-burner. The first watercolour caught fire briefly, the masking tape flamed up on me, you can see the burn on the right hand side of the first painting. It was zero to minus five that day, I had fun trying to do some watercolouring in very extreme conditions. 🙂
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| Ljungdalen, Sweden. Moleskin watercolour notebook 200g, 29 x 21 cm |
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| Ljungdalen, Sweden. Moleskin watercolour notebook 200g, 29 x 21 cm |
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| Öjön, Ljungdalen, Sweden. |
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| Öjön, Ljungdalen, Sweden. |
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| Öjön, Ljungdalen, Sweden. |
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| Öjön, Ljungdalen, Sweden. |
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| Öjön, Ljungdalen, Sweden. |
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20150203
We had a wonderful model this week which was a real treat. She held a very elegant pose, time after time. The session was quite inspiring.
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| Five minute nude on A4 Fabriano sketch paper |
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| Five minute nude on A4 Fabriano sketch paper |
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| Five minute nude on A4 Fabriano sketch paper |
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| Five minute nude on A4 Fabriano sketch paper |
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| Five minute nude |
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| Ten minute nude |
Life Drawing at Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150127
I have not much to say about these illustrations. A picture speaks for itself anyway, so I’ll just sign off now and get back to my drawing-board.
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| Ten minute nude |
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| Five minute nude |
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| Ten minute study |
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| Five minute nude. |
This female nude was incomplete until I got my fingers dirty with charcoal dust and finished the contours of her body.
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| A4 nude, Fabriano sketch paper |
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150120
Ups and downs, that’s the way my abilities go when capturing a model’s pose.
I’ve had this model several times before, I’ve always struggled to catch her beauty and elegant ballerina posturing. It’s strange because she is quite pretty. I guess it’s like dating, sometimes there’s magic and on other occasions there is nothing at all. Does that make sense?
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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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| Two – three minute nude |
I started this lunchtime watercolour last week, I didn’t finish it during my break so I spent one more hour on the painting yesterday morning. I am testing to see if I can cope with getting up one hour earlier at the moment. I started yesterday so it’s early days. I’m too tired in the evenings after a full-day’s work to feel inspired to paint, getting up earlier feels better, it’s tough but better, if you know what I mean. It’s not easy being an artist but it’s very rewarding!
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| Storm clouds. A5 Fabriano GF 300g |
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150113.
It was nice to start life drawing again. I felt a bit rusty. The model, who is very good, made endless difficult poses for us. After a while I started to relax and enjoy myself. I used charcoal dust, my hero calligraphy pen and my trusty 0.7 Pentel mechanical pencil with 2b lead.
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| 10 minute nude. |
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| 3 minute nude. |
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| 10 minute nude. |
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| 2 minute nude. |
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| 5 minute nude. |
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| 2 minute nude. |
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| 5 minute nude. |
These sketches were done at Konstnärshuset last Tuesday, 201412009
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| Five minute nude |
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| Ten minute nude |
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| Five minute nude |
I could do some nudes at Basis here in Stockholm this Saturday but I just have to focus on the Christmas monster that I have been ignoring. Presents have to be bought and cards have to be sent, you know the drill. Looking forward to next year’s life drawing already.