meldrum art

My first exhibition

I was delighted to have one of my paintings accepted for the annual watercolour exhibition at Väsby Konsthall, an art gallery that’s a short distance from Stockholm. This is my first time so it was a trill to be at the opening yesterday. One painting may be a modest start but for me it is a very important step in my development as an artist.

Yours truly …

Väsby Konsthall

David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Nude

Tuesday’s life drawing

Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150310

A new model this week, at least I don’t think I’ve drawn her before. She had a Egon Schiele type of body, skinny, long fingers and big hands with an unusual face. I really enjoyed sketching her, I hope I get to draw her again soon. It takes a few hours grind to get used to the contours of a new model.

Five minute nude

Two minute nude

David Meldrum lunch watercolour Watercolour

A lunchtime watercolour

I was quite happy with this watercolour. I finished it within half an hour during my lunch break. I used two photographs as reference, one for subject and the other for lighting. It is very small at 7,8 x 11,5 cm. I used masking fluid for the lighthouse and reflection. I painted 3 layers and used my mini-hair dryer each time. Wish I could be this productive every lunchtime.

30 minute watercolour. 7,8 x 11,5 cm.

David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Nude

Saturday’s life drawing

Venue: Basis, Stockholm, 20150307

I love the social aspect of going to Saturday life drawing at Basis. The people there are so warm and friendly. It’s a shame the lighting in the room is so bad, directional light is almost none existent. It gets better in the spring when natural light replaces the cold and cruel florescent tubes. I try not to let it affect me, this week I focused on line and detail – the shading was secondary. My bad period seems to be lifting, I feel more in harmony with my drawing. Grumpy artist, nothing worse.

10 minute nude, A4

10 minute nude

2 minute nude

10 minute nude

David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing

Ups and downs

Venue; Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150303

I am struggling at life drawing at the moment. That’s the way it goes, up and down, great then bad. We even had a power-cut mid way through the last session, Had a great model but we were plunged into darkness during the coffee break and there was nothing else to do but go home early feeling a little bit depressed.
The good thing about a down period is that it is usually followed by an up.

5 minute nude

David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Nude

Life drawing

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2015/03/06
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Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20150219

Tired model. An uninspired artist. Not too many good drawings produced at this session.

10 minute nude 20150219

5 minute nude 20150219

David Meldrum Sketch Watercolour

Nordic watercolouring

Last Friday we went fishing on a frozen lake in Ljungdalen in the north of Sweden. The ice was one metre thick and it took us 30 minutes travelling uphill on our cross country skies to reach the lake. I painted, the water froze and the colour pigment behaved very weird on my paper but as luck would have it, I brought along my new mini-gas-burner. The first watercolour caught fire briefly, the masking tape flamed up on me, you can see the burn on the right hand side of the first painting. It was zero to minus five that day, I had fun trying to do some watercolouring in very extreme conditions. 🙂

Öjön, Ljungdalen, Sweden. by David Meldrum

Ljungdalen, Sweden. Moleskin watercolour notebook 200g, 29 x 21 cm

Öjön, Ljungdalen, Sweden.

David Meldrum Still life Watercolour

Mini Still lifes

I was cross-country skiing in the mountains near Norway last week.When my aching body was trying to recover in the evenings, I painted. Here are two little still lifes from the trip: 7,8 x 11,5 cm.

Still life #1

Still life #2

David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Nudes

Tuesday’s life Drawing

Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150217

We had a new model, she is from Catalonia and is a circus artist. It’s always enjoyable with a new model, it takes time to get to know how to draw his or her form.

Ten minute nude

Five minute nude

Two minute nude

Five minute nude