meldrum artNot much to say about this painting, it’s partly from a photograph and partly from my imagination. I am producing a lot of work right now, the quality may not be 100% but I feel it’s important to just paint and paint a lot, I’m learning at a very fast rate because of this. The original size was a lot larger but I cropped it as it lacked compositional impact. It is now 17 x 12cm in size on Fabriano GF 300g paper.
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| Island fishing. Fabriano GF 300g paper. 17 x 12cm |
I had a party at the weekend for my friends from Life Drawing and Urban Sketchers. It was a great evening and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves immensely. We were given lots of flowers which was ideal for painting afterwards.
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| Tulips. Arches rough 300g, 28.5 x 38.5cm 20120212 |
Here in Sweden it’s cool and damp between September and December. And it’s pretty cool the rest of the year except for July and August which means it is hard to dry watercolours while outdoors. I visited the hardware store for a solution and I think I found it. I’ll just have to be careful not to set the paper on fire! 🙂
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| Mini Burner |
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20150203
We had a wonderful model this week which was a real treat. She held a very elegant pose, time after time. The session was quite inspiring.
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| Five minute nude on A4 Fabriano sketch paper |
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| Five minute nude on A4 Fabriano sketch paper |
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| Five minute nude on A4 Fabriano sketch paper |
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| Five minute nude on A4 Fabriano sketch paper |
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| Five minute nude |
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| Ten minute nude |
I’ve been painting horses recently, they are difficult to paint and draw but I like the challenge. This small painting used to be much larger but I chopped off the legs due to my inability to capture their movement. Meanwhile I’m working on two other horse paintings and as usual, the more one practices, the easier it gets.
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| Galloping horse. 11.5 x 7.8 cm Arches rough 300g |
Life Drawing at Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150127
I have not much to say about these illustrations. A picture speaks for itself anyway, so I’ll just sign off now and get back to my drawing-board.
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| Ten minute nude |
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| Five minute nude |
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| Ten minute study |
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| Five minute nude. |
This female nude was incomplete until I got my fingers dirty with charcoal dust and finished the contours of her body.
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| A4 nude, Fabriano sketch paper |
We were a group of seven or eight Urban Sketchers on top of Katarina Elevator last Sunday. It was zero degrees, my water did not freeze but it didn’t dry very well either. After half an hour it got too cool for us and we retreated to a nearby cafĂ© where we could warm up again. It was only then that my watercolour sketch dried.
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| Katarina Elevator view, Slussen, Stockholm. A4 watercolour Moleskin, 200g paper. |
Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150120
Ups and downs, that’s the way my abilities go when capturing a model’s pose.
I’ve had this model several times before, I’ve always struggled to catch her beauty and elegant ballerina posturing. It’s strange because she is quite pretty. I guess it’s like dating, sometimes there’s magic and on other occasions there is nothing at all. Does that make sense?
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| Five minute nude |
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| Five minute nude |
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| Five minute nude |
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| Two minute nude |
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| Two – three minute nude |