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Monday’s life drawing

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I have my life drawing crazy friend Martin staying at my place at the moment. It means I go to more classes than I usually do. I can’t keep up with him though. He totally lives for figure drawing, I’ve had enough until Saturday but he is soon on his way to another session.

Monday, I went to Mäster Olofsgården to draw. The venue is always overcrowded but the models are usually good. On this occasion we had a model called Nicole who was just amazing. Wonderful poses which inspired me to draw better than usual.

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figure drawing My Life Drawing Sketch

Life drawing at Basis

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Life drawing at Basis means lots of quick sketches, one is quite exhausted afterwards. I use a half A3 sketchbook each time. It’s very good of course for me, my drawings become more instintive and I have to econemise which my lines otherwise it is impossible to draw much in one or two minutes. The model is one of my favourites, Katrina is her name. Very expressive poses and at angels that make perspective drawing a challenge to say the least.

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Tags basis, croquis, figuredrawing, kroki, lifedrawing, Stockholm

Watercolour

Going urban

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2017/09/17
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The Old Town, Stockholm

I want to paint more street scenes than I do. I don’t feel as comfortable painting urban scenes compared to boats and nature. I want to have a broad repertoire and there is only one way to achieve that, … paint everything and paint them often.

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Tags akvarell, aquarelle, Gamla Stan, Old Town, Stockholm, watercolor, Watercolour

Watercolour

Storskär

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2017/09/14
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Storskär by David Meldrum

One of the really beautiful things about the Stockholm archipelago is the numerous old ferries that are still in service. Most of which are over 100 years old. Storskär is one of my favorites. It is owned by Waxholms bolaget. I don’t think I could ever tire of painting these beautiful boats.

Title: Storskär
51 x 33 cm

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Tags akvarell, aquarelle, skärgård, skärgården, storskär, watercolor, Watercolour, waxholmsbolaget

figure drawing My Life Drawing Nudes Sketch

First time at KYO

Fredrik

This was the first time I went to KYO at Timmarmansgården here in the south of Stockholm (Södermalm). Very nice location and everyone was very friendly. I am starting my own life drawing group ( more info here ) and so it is important for me to get to know as many life drawing models as possible. This model’s name is Fredrik, I’ve sketched him many times, he is very professional.

Fredrik

Tags figure drawing, kroki, Life drawing

Watercolour

Archipelago rain

A small composition test 34 x 24 cm on Fabriano fine grain. I plan to paint a large version today.

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Tags akvarell, aquarelle, archipelago, rain, regn, skärgården, watercolor, Watercolour

figure drawing My Life Drawing Nudes Sketch Watercolour

Trying watercolour again

life drawing by meldrum

I am trying to paint watercolour at life drawing again. I think my approach was quite successful. As the poses are generally only 5 minutes in duration I just painted the skin tones. Later, during a pose I did not find inspiring ( when the model had her back to me ) I painted the background and more shading, especially around the face.

I liked this model so I felt quite inspired. The lighting at ABF is awful, fluorescent tubes in a very large room, not very pleasing normally but a good model makes up for it.

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Tags abf, akvarell, aquarelle, figure drawing, kroki, Life drawing, Sketch, Stockholm, watercolor, Watercolour

figure drawing My Life Drawing Nude Sketch

A pencil sketch

kroki meldrum 20170904

Last week I attended my first Life drawing session. I am happy the figure drawing season has begun again but a bit sad that the summer is over. I do not usually go to ABF to draw but as my usual venue (Konstnärshuset) has not started yet so I gave it a try. The model was new to me, Alia was her name. Always nice to sketch a new life drawing model. I painted mostly watercolours that evening which I will publish in the next post.

Tags abf, figure drawing, kroki, Life drawing, pencil, Sketch, Stockholm

Sketch Watercolour

Fantastic to be sailing again.

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2017/08/31
2 Comments on Fantastic to be sailing again.

I haven’t sailed all summer but now I am and it’s wonderful. The holiday season is over so the archipelago is quite empty of boats. No motor boats just a few sailing boats and most of them seem to be visiting from Europe. So it’s very peaceful. We have bought a new boat, not new exactly – it was built in 1975. So we are getting to know how everything works. Next week my wife returns to work but I intend to continue sailing as much of September I can. I want to sketch, paint and take reference photos. It’s going to be an experience.

This watercolour sketch was painted at our first stop on the trip, Gällnö is the name of the island, we stayed for a day then moved on.

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Tags akvarell, aquarelle, archipelago, sailing, skärgården, Sketch, skiss, Stockholm, urbansketcher, usk, watercolor, Watercolour