I sketched my sister sleeping while we were sailing last week. Someone has mentioned that she is ‘Hot!’ on my Flickr Urban Sketching page. I agree with them of course 🙂
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| Sleeping Sister |
Yesterday, I went to my first Life Drawing evening since the summer break, I tried out some new techniques I had been studying, if it were a cake it would not have raised, but it was fun trying and that’s the whole point, isn’t it! 😉 Visit “My Life Drawing 2012” if you would like to see more.
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| Koi colours |
More drawings can be seen on the “My Urban Sketches” page.
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| Espresso time |
More sketches from my sailing trip to Italy coming soon…
I find Vivian Maier’s work to be truly fascinating. Her life story is so surreal. And to think her photographs were found in boxes at a jumble sale, forgotten, discarded; the public only seeing her work after her death. Visit her website to see the work of a great street photographer. I can’t always sketch from real-life so I use her work to practice on. http://www.vivianmaier.com/
When I started sketching it was really hard to let go, to work fast and not be afraid to make mistakes. The more and more I sketch the easier it becomes. Now my drawings are full of mistakes, wobbly lines and smudges! 🙂
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| Take-away at Medborgplatsen |
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| Cello practice |
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On the way to work…
The biggest problem I have and I guess everybody else is in the same boat, is finding time in ones busy life for hobby activities. I have found that my lunch break is a good time to do a little sketch. Yesterday I tried sketching in the morning, I just took an earlier bus to work and this gave me 15 minutes to have some quality time before arriving at my office desk. Holidays is also a good time to sketch, I need more holidays! 🙂
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| Medborgplatsen, 08.30 |
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| Arholma, Stockholm archipelago |
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Here is a recent portrait demo by David Jon Kassan
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| Sketched in the sleepy harbour of Karlby, on the island of Kökar in the Åland archipelago. |
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| The view from my boat on the island of Arholma which is situated in the northern Stockholm archipelago. |
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| Boat house containing a very old livestock transport boat. Cows are moved out to the islands in the archipelago during the the summer months. This was sketched on the island of Arholma in the northern Stockholm archipelago. |