meldrum artVenue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20140429
It is always nice to have a new model. This lady was a wonderful challenge to draw, she’s from the States I believe, her poses were beautiful.
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| Ten minute pose |
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| Ten minute pose |
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| Five minute pose + a little extra |
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| Five minute pose |
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| Two minute pose |
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| Two minute pose |
Venue: Basis, Stockholm. 20140426
Our model this week was a lady called Kinna. She was excellent at holding elegant and interesting poses. I only wish my sketches could have caught her beauty better. Next time…
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| Ten minute nude. |
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| Ten minute nude |
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| Ten minute nude |
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| Two minute nude |
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| Two minute nude |
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| Five minute nude |
Yesterday was the 43rd World SketchCrawl. A sunny day was had in the suburbs of Stockholm with fellow urban sketcher, Nina. Skärholmen central square. We had a lot of fun even if we had a very persistent drunk yapping profanities into ours ears for what seem like several hours.
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| SketchCrawl #43 , Skärholmen, Stockholm |
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| SketchCrawl #43 , Skärholmen, Stockholm |
Venue: Basis, Stockholm. 20140405
I seem to be going through a relatively good period right now, at least that is the way it feels. We had the same model as last Saturday, I think her name is Mia, she’s been modelling for 50 years which is pretty amazing. She lacks hair because of chemotherapy, yeap, she’s pretty special.
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| A4, 15 minute watercolour nude. |
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| A4, ten minute watercolour nude. |
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| A4, two minute pencil nude. |
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20140325
I brought the minimum to life drawing yesterday evening. A few pencils and a block of A4 paper.
The model’s poses were quite contorted, very hard to draw, luckily she did a few classical poses too.
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| Five minute pencil nude |
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| Five minute pencil nude |
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| Five minute pencil nude |
Venue: Master Olafsgården, Old Town, Stockholm.
I am enjoying playing around with watercolour, I learn a lot from these quick sketches.
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| Ten minute watercolour nude |
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| Fifteen minute watercolour nude |
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| Ten minute watercolour nude |
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| Three minute sketch. Too much fixative, that’s why it’s so wrinkly. |
Venue: Basis, Stockholm. 20140315
I’ve drawn this model too many times, I know all her poses, no surprises. I’m not blaming the model, I just wasn’t able to get it on. Saying that, I am actually happy with the first sketch. The other fifteen or so sketches from the session were well below standard.
Man, I’m grumpy when I don’t feel so well. I gotta stop moaning, life is too short for negatives. I am looking forward to new, positive, life drawing opportunities this Tuesday evening. 🙂
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| Ten minute watercolour nude |
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| Ten minute watercolour nude |
Lars, who has the nick name, Action Bear posed last night at ABF. I don’t normally attend the life drawing there but my Tuesday figure drawing place of choice (Konstnärshuset) was cancelled due to illness.
I really enjoyed my return to watercolouring at life drawing. It turned out to be a rather special day, the intended model never turned up and we were all packing our bags to go home when this beautiful Russian girl volunteered to pose. It turns out that she was an expert at posing, really beautiful poses. She must have done art-modelling before. ( The model who did not turn up was the uninspiring one I had last week, so you can guess how happy I was about our bit of luck. )
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| Five minute watercolour nude |
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| Two minute nude |
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| 5 minute nude |