I sketched this bored traveller in the airport bar on the way home from France at the weekend.
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| Bored |
Category: Sketch
I have had a lot of time to reflect on what I actually want to sketch and paint while on holidays. Basically, there is an awful lot of subjects that do not inspire me and a few that do. One of the few that do are old boat wrecks here in the harbour of Paimpol, Brittany.
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| Wrecks in Paimpol, Brittany. A4 Fabriano Paper, 50% cotton. |
Yes, I have a whole week to myself and I’m sketching and watercolouring intensely. The painting of the three boats below is my effort from this afternoon. I messed up the sky, I lost the white clouds I tried to create but otherwise I am happy with the result. Tonight, I will look at my Charles Reid DVD again and try and improve my cloud-forming-technique. There is always something to learn! 🙂
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| Holiday in Brittany. 20130528, A3 watercolour. |
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Sketching in Brittany
I am enjoying a short holiday in Paimpol, Brittany. My goal is to sketch and paint as much as I can while I am here. Unfortunately the weather has other ideas, it’s very windy, showers expected and 14 degrees. Artists have to be tough! 😉
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| The Hardware Store, Paimpol, Brittany, 20130527 |
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm.
It was only a short break, but it felt so much longer. It was so good to be life drawing again. I was relaxed too and not stressed which is so important when drawing. The model was excellent, very professional and expressive. It’s not good to stress, it’s better to sketch! 😉 All sketches were on A4 sized paper, actually the watercolour paper (200g) was a little larger but I don’t know the actual measurements.
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| 5 minute watercolour sketch. 20130521 |
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| 10 minute watercolour sketch. 20130521 |
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| 5 minute watercolour sketch. 20130521 |
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| 5 minute watercolour sketch. 20130521 by David Meldrum (Cropped) |
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| 10 minute watercolour sketch. 20130521 |
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| 2 minute pencil sketch. 20130521 |
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| 2 minute pencil sketch. 20130521 |
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| 2 minute pencil sketch. 20130521 |
I am currently at a web conference here in London. It’s cold and wet, but I guess that’s the way if should be. Anyway, I managed to squeeze in this watercolour sketch during the lunch break.
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| Chiswell Street, London |
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Nude
I’m still playing around with these coloured pencils. I sketched from a photograph I found on the internet, I like the pose, it’s hard to find erotic material on the net that is not too pornographic if you know what I mean. Where is the line between eroticism and pornography anyway? I guess that’s up to each and everyone of us to decide for ourselves.
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| Naked on the internet, a study. |
Venue: konstskolan BASIS 2013.04-20
I’m experimenting with coloured pencils on light-brown paper since last week. I like the technique, it is a quick way to create a more three-dimensional form.
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| Nude 2013.04.20 |
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| Nude 2013.04.20 |
Venue: The Swedish Academy of Realist Art 20130418
I actually turned up at the wrong life drawing session, I wondered why no one had arrived and then I slowly realised that I was at the wrong place on the wrong day! Luckily, I was half an hour early and so made it to the right address just on time. I’m stressed at work, I can blame it on that or maybe it’s my age.
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| Pencils on coloured paper. Nude 2013.04.18 |