meldrum artI just spent two weeks sailing here in Stockholm. The weather was not the best, I had to use mittens at one point while painting. There was a storm, lots of wind and rain but I still enjoyed myself anyway. It’s hard to beat the beauty of the archipelago. I plan to spend more time painting there next year, I am looking forward to it already.
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| The outer archipelago 39 x 29 cm Arches Rough |
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| The Stockholm Archipelago 39 x 29 cm Arches Rough |
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| The Stockholm Archipelago 39 x 29 cm Arches Rough |
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| Assorted brushes and W&N watercolour paint |
I painted the same picture again. It’s fun to play around with a simple motif and a small format, the watercolours are 8 x 11.5 cm on Arches rough, 300g.
This was sketched this week too.
A little sketch I did on the way to work this week. I wait at Söderstation in Stockholm for my local train most mornings. I’m quite happy to just miss the train because this gives me ten minutes to do a sketch. I then finish the drawing while aboard the train.
I wanted to practice my watercolour figures so I chose that rather famous picture of James Dean walking in the rain in New York. I completed these two paintings in half an hour. Speed helps me, I don’t have time to think, when I think everything goes wrong. Each watercolour is 8 x 11,5 cm in size on Arches rough, 300g.
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| James Dean on a lunch break. |
I found a wonderful photo of a nude on the internet, to my surprise I found an original copy on Ebay. I plan to do a large watercolour once I receive the print. The original photo was taken by Heinrich Maass from Berlin and was featured in a book called “Nature & Culture”, a collection of nudes of women from different cultures around the world. It was assembled by Dr. Peter Landow in 1924 & 1925.
I used a Cretacolor Monolith 9B for toning on A4 Fabriano Eco Artist paper.
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| Drawn from an original photo taken by Heinrich Maass, 1925 |
It’s amazing how hard it is to get back into a routine. Today, I finally started painting again during my lunch break. I mean, it’s been at least two weeks since the last one! I’m such a slacker.
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| Lunchtime archipelago. Paper: Arches rough 17 x 12 cm, 20150707. |
I painted this while on holiday in Greece. It takes longer than a photograph but the memory of the occasion is so much stronger because of it.
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| Corfu, Greece 20150628. Paper: Arches rough 12 x 17 cm. |