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. |
I came home yesterday after a three week holiday sailing around the Åland and Stockholm archipelagos. It was a wonderful adventure and I saw some amazing things. I have a number of panoramic sketches from the trip to publish, unfortunately I only managed to scan this little quickie sketch before my scanner suddenly, totally refused to work. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
More sketches coming soon. Anyone got any recommendations for a small, inexpensive scanner?
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| Smart-Phone Dreaming |
A quick sketch in the summer heat using my Hero 86 and Koi watercolour set.
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| Bird Feeder Sketch |
I was working from home today so I was able to sketch the birds outside the kitchen window during my lunch break.
Illustrated with my Hero 86 calligraphy pen.
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Another Hero arrives through the door.
I ordered it from HongKong a month ago, I thought maybe it would never show up, but it did and this makes me so happy – little kid, happy! Grow up but don’t grow old, as they say.
Hopefully this pen leaks less than my other Hero. It can be purchased on eBay, it’s called a Hero 593 calligraphy pen. My first Pen from China is called a Hero 86 calligraphy pen by the way, I’m am very happy with it even if it is a bit leaky.
Direk Kingnok is a watercolour artist I admire very much, I recently found this interview on a blog called, The Royal Arts: http://theroyalarts.blogspot.se/2011/12/direk-kingnok.html#!/2011/12/direk-kingnok.html
Direk Kingnok’s website: http://www.direkkingnok.com/
His Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Direk-Kingnok-Watercolor-artist/157671970976244
| Watercolour by Direk Kingnok |
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Less of a Hero
I was going to sketch today while I waited for a train at the station but then the honeymoon period between my pen and I came to an abrupt end. I still love drawing with it, I’ll have to try filling it to a third and see what happens.
Here are a few sketches I did in the last few days with my new Hero calligraphy pen. The first two sketches are from a book called, “Anatomy for the Artist“. The other sketch with watercolour was from the wonderful street photographer, Vivian Maier‘s website.
No preparation penciling was used for these drawings, I’m trying to push myself to be free with ink and watercolour, trying to lose the fear of making mistakes.
