meldrum artLast night I went to a two hour – one pose session at the The Swedish Academy of Realistic Art in Bergshamra, Stockholm. I have been sketching now for a few years so I’m finding it relatively easy to draw the human figure. The problem I have today is the painting of the figure, it is such a struggle for me, I painted my first watercolour in February.

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| Two hour male nude study |
I was able to get into the groove during this session. It was one of those better days… 🙂
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| 5 Minute sketch |
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| 10 Minute sketch |
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| 2 Minute sketch |
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| 2 Minute sketch |
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| le fret bretagne 2 by Piet Lap |
Piet Lap – I want to take a closer look at his work at a later date. I know nothing about him except that he paints extremely well! Here is a link to his website.
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| Guan Weixing |
Somebody who calls himself “The great artist of China” otherwise know as Guan Weixing. This site is also worth viewing; which I will some other day. Visit here.
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| Koi by Cheng-Khee Chee |
Cheng-Khee Chee works with saturated wet paper to create lovely Koi fish studies. See his gallery here.
I have been rather busy since the summer holidays. But today I was relaxed enough to do a little lunchtime sketch. I don’t know if anyone would recognise this artist, a hint is that he likes to sing about buildings.
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| Lunchtime sketch |
I left my watercolours at home this week, I wanted to focus on improving my drawing skills. I used Gioconda synthetic charcoal and a Koh-i-Noor pencil. The life drawing session was at Konstnärshuset, Stockholm.
See more sketches here.
Here are some sketches from Tuesday’s life drawing session. More can be found here or visit “My Life Drawing 2012”.
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| 2 minute sketch with Hero pen. |
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| 5 minute Koi watercolour and Hero pen sketch. |
I was relatively happy with my life drawing on Saturday. I have been studying my Charles Reid DVDs and some of his expert knowledge seems to have penetrated my thick skull. It is hard to apply new techniques when one is sketching and painting so fast, one doesn’t have time to think really, it’s instinctive. That is the benefit of practising, one improves slowly but more importantly, skills become second nature.
This week, I created frames for my sketches before the drawing session, I like the result of this, they feel like graphic novel stories. Three more drawings can be found on ” My Life Drawing 2012“.
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| 2 minute ink and watercolour sketches |
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| 2 minute ink and watercolour sketches |
I was not really in form yesterday evening, a bit too tired to fully apply myself. Still, I gave it a go and a few sketches turned out okay. Visit “My Life Drawing 2012” or click here.
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| Five minute pen and watercolour sketch |