Trying hard to clear a backlog of work that needs to be published. Trouble is, I need to paint too.
Nude by Meldrum
Nude by Meldrum
Nude by Meldrum
Nude by Meldrum
Nude by Meldrum
Nude by Meldrum
Here are a few life drawings from Monday last week.
Meldrum – life drawing #1
Meldrum – life drawing #2
Meldrum – life drawing #3
Meldrum – life drawing #4
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Life drawing
My first life drawing session after the summer break. I was very rusty so only one sketch to show 🙂
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My week with Chien Chung-Wei
I have been busy with my art so I haven’t blogged for a while. It’s strange but once you stop it is so hard to get going again. So I throw this out in the hope that I get my act together and start publishing again…
I had an amazing week on a course run by Angela Barbi in Girona, Spain recently. Her company is called EPC ( Enjoy Painting Catalonia ).
One of my watercolour heroes is Chein Chung-Wei and I was lucky enough to get on his course. Chien has been a teacher of watercolour technique for twenty years in Taipei, Taiwan. He was discovered on Facebook 3 or 4 years by the editor of “Art of Watercolour”, the magazine has regularly featured his work ever since. Surprised by the amount of international interest in his art he has been holding courses internationally now for a few years. He said his English wasn’t very good in the beginning but he has improved a lot since then. He is such an extrovert and quite eccentric, he uses his body a lot to explain what he means which helps his students understand. I had absolutely no problem understanding Chien and have been totally inspired by the experience.
Chien Chung-Wei
In the next coming weeks I plan to post more about my time in Girona.
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Dark period
Last week it was a bad reaction to what I ate, this week I have totally got the flu and seem to spend most of my days sleeping. Yesterday, I managed three small watercolours. I have an exhibition in the Old Town here in Stockholm starting on the 3rd of December so I thought I’d better get a move on. The paintings are rather dark, the days are getting shorter here, the sky is a numbing grey and I don’t feel so good.
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Illness
I had a frustrating week last week. I was so enthusiastic about my new artist schedule and all the watercolours I was going to produce, but then illness struck and I’ve been unable to paint. I still feel awful, I really hope I’m 100% tiptop by the end of the week because that’s when my EPC art course with Chien Chung-Wei starts. Drop back again in a few days I am sure I’ll be back in business by then.
In the evening of my first day following my tough new artist week schedule I went to life drawing. At this stage my food intolerance was setting in big time, I had eaten something that did not agree with me. I made it through the first half of the session but I was in too much pain and too tired to continue in the second half of the evening. I think it shows in the sketches I did, I haven’t shown the bad ones of course but I think I struggled with them all, at least it felt that way.
I was proud that I was able to produce so much in one day, I hope to continue doing this in the future, like I said in an earlier post – I’m not well today so no watercolours and no schedule was followed, hopefully in a couple of days I’ll be back on track.
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Some time for improvements
I wasn’t happy with the sky so I made it a bit more cloudy. This was also part of my busy first day with my new artist schedule.
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Afternoon painting
If you read my earlier post you will know that this is the first afternoon of my really ttough artist week schedule! This painting which is 50 x 32 cm in size took two hours to paint.