Category: Sketch

Naked hand holds stopwatch!

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2013/09/04
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It sounds like one of those bad newspaper headlines. As for the watercolour which took me two lunch breaks, – it’s all right, I learned a few things which is the point of drawing and painting these in the first place. I’m happy enough with the result, a mixture of success and failure.
Life Drawing starts again tomorrow, I’m really looking forward to starting, it feels like it was a very long time ago since the last session.

Naked hand holds stopwatch! 9 x 14 cm Moleskin.

David Meldrum Lunch Sketch Naked Hands Sketch Watercolour

Two naked hands

I managed to draw and paint two hands during my lunch break today. I’m quite happy with them, it’s difficult to paint on such a small format. I feel that my watercolouring skills are improving, this feels very rewarding.

David Meldrum Lunch Sketch Naked Hands Sketch Watercolour

Naked hands

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2013/08/13
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Lunch sketch painted in my mini-watercolour Moleskin.

David Meldrum Sketch urban sketching Watercolour Watercolouring

Watercolour sketches from Corfu

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2013/08/07
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I had big plans to do a whole bunch of watercolours on my sailing trip. In reality it was almost impossible to concentrate for any length of time in the 35-36 degrees of heat. Still, I had a wonderful holiday and my batteries are charged. The sketches are A5 in size approximately.

Corfu watercolour sketch by David Meldrum

Reversed perspective. ( It felt right at the time! )

David Meldrum Sketch

Home from Corfu

Here are a few more A5 pencil sketches from my holiday sailing around Corfu. The sketch book was a present from my son. 🙂

David Meldrum Sketch

Sailing around Corfu

I have been sailing around Corfu for the last week. 35 degrees, almost too hot to do anything, even sketch. 😉

David Meldrum figure drawing figure painting Sketch Watercolour

Taking a break …

Currently I’m working on a large watercolour, it’s a real challenge, I’ve never worked in so much detail before and I’m pushing my technical limits to the maximum. So, it was necessary to take a little break and paint this little watercolour nude. I like the freedom of the way the colour pigment illustrates the figure.

Nude 20130719. Moleskin, A5, watercolour notebook.

David Meldrum figure drawing Sketch

Mucha inspired …

I found a wonderful model – posing beautifully. I will eventually paint a full sized homage to the image at a later date. I spent today doing two sketches, one watercolour with a Mucha inspired frame and the other in pencil. Both are about A5 in size.

Watercolour

Pencil

David Meldrum Lunch Sketch Sketch Watercolour

Three little lunch breaks.

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2013/07/08
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I learn so much each time I do a watercolour. I learn, that I should not draw so many lines, that I should be patient, that I should simplify what I see, that I should be more subtle with my tones and finally, that I should be more confident with my brush strokes.

This is a portrait of Micke Nybrink, he is a Trotting media journalist here in Sweden. Last week I created a web site in which he featured and this is where the image of him inspired me to paint him. You can see the website and his photo here if you like. It took me three lunch breaks to complete the painting, almost two hours I would guess.

Micke Nybrink