I sketched this bored traveller in the airport bar on the way home from France at the weekend.
Bored |
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! 🙂
Holiday in Brittany. 20130528, A3 watercolour. |
Venue: The Swedish Academy of Realist Art (SARA) 20130523
The Body Builder 20130523 |
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.
5 minute watercolour sketch. 20130521 |
10 minute watercolour sketch. 20130521 |
5 minute watercolour sketch. 20130521 |
5 minute watercolour sketch. 20130521 by David Meldrum (Cropped) |
10 minute watercolour sketch. 20130521 |
2 minute pencil sketch. 20130521 |
2 minute pencil sketch. 20130521 |
2 minute pencil sketch. 20130521 |
Venue: The Swedish Academy of Realist Art (SARA)
I enjoyed this two hour session last Thursday, I took it easy and did not stress. I have been practising my skin tones in a watercolour-paper- sketchbook, I think it is starting to have an affect, all the practice I do. I’m starting to feel more and more confident with each stroke of the brush, practice, practice.
I haven’t been publishing much lately, I’m so busy with other things than art. Sweden is very much a place of two seasons, the ice has recently melted, I put the summer tyres on the car and this weekend it was the boat’s turn to be put in the water and the mast put on. Summer is coming! 🙂
The Body Builder, A3 watercolour, 2013.05.02 |