Espresso House Café. 21 x 14.5 cm Clairefontaine watercolour sketchbook.
Venue: Basis, Stockholm 20160220
I was in the groove so I enjoyed this session. Currently using a charcoal pencil on A3 paper. The model was excellent which helps a lot.
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Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm 20160216
These drawings are from last week. I have a back-log right now, just too busy to blog. Terrible thing!
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This is one of my lunchtime watercolours from during the week. Last year I visited Brittany, France. I took a blurred photo from the speeding train outside Paris on my way to the west. The wheat fields with their islands of trees reminded me of the Stockholm archipelago.
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| Wheat fields outside Paris 30 x 24 |
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20160209
I have to admit I struggled with this model. Her poses were mostly complex and her body was nymph like in appearance but I must say she was very good. I have no complaints, it was a pleasure to struggle over such things.
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Venue: Basis, Stockholm 20160206
We had Saturday life drawing at last. Our old teacher, Harald left town at Christmas and the school had difficulty filling the guy’s shoes obviously. Harald is missed but the new teacher seems promising. He got his art education in Budapest so that’s interesting at least. He changed the amount of time we spent on each pose after the first two five minute ones. He made them shorter, very short – one minute ones! Funny but after a series of one minute poses we moved up to two minute poses and then it felt we had ages to complete a sketch.
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Cheap palette
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20160202
I enjoyed this life drawing session. I was happy with most of my sketches which rarely happens. I was trying out a new charcoal pencil, a Kuelox Charcoal pencil – 1803 Soft. I liked it a lot, the only negative is that the pencil is very hard to sharpen without shattering the compressed coal.
Rosa, the model is an ex-circus artist who is very strong, her figure is quite short and stocky. She’s a great model and I’ve been drawing her since the very start, but these days I tend to stretch her, I make her taller than she really is in my sketches. I guess it is to suit my ideal female form, it’s my artistic licence, sorry about that Rosa if you ever happen to stumble over this post.
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I spent the whole day yesterday drawing and painting. First I met up with fellow Stockholm – Urbansketchers. We gathered outside the library at Kulturhuset which is a large cultural centre in the middle of Stockholm. Later in the day some of us attended life drawing at Konstnärshuset, this watercolour took 40 minutes. It was challenging because I had to paint wet on wet most of the time. I had to apply thick paint for the eyes, otherwise the damp paper would have blurred them out of recognition. If you would like to see my urban-sketches please visit here.
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| Sunday figure painting |
