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Lunchtime watercolours
Here are two watercolours that I did during my lunch breaks earlier in the week. My daily routine is to eat my lunch (quickly) and then spend 40 minutes painting. I usually have two watercolours on the go at the same time so I don’t have to hang around waiting for pigment to dry. I find it’s a great way to learn, I have to be quick and so I don’t fiddle around, I just apply the paint and see what happens. I’m having a 50/50 success rate at the moment. I really want to improve my technique so squeezing in some art-time during the working-day is uplifting, I find it so frustrating when I don’t find space in my life for watercolour.
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| Archipelago sunset, 25 x 16 cm, Arches gf 300g/m2 |
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| Archipelago mist, 23 x 16 cm, Arches gf 300g/m2 |
Here are the sketches of the nude from Tuesday’s life drawing.
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| 10 minute sketch |
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| 10 minute sketch |
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| 2 minute nude. |
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| 5 minutes |
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| 5 minutes |
Tuesday’s model went to the wrong address so the organiser of the life drawing, Sissel took her place. We sketched her for half an hour until the intended model turned up. I didn’t care, to be honest I think these sketches are more interesting than the nude drawings I did shortly afterwards. Judge yourself.
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| 5 minute sketch. |
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| 5 minute sketch, The Murder Scene. |
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Two lunchtime watercolours
I painted these during my lunch breaks last week. I want to master capturing the affects of water and sky. I improve each time I make an attempt, … just gotta keep trying I guess!
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| Sailing in Stockholm |
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| Sailing in the light |
I bought two sticks of Derwent XL Charcoal ( Ochre 01 and Sanguine 02 ). They are small and chubby so I don’t know why they call them, XL! But, this is not important – what is important is that I am having lots of fun smudging grated charcoal powder all over my pencil sketches. I used some grated red pastel and black charcoal also in the mix of things. All drawings are on Fabriano A4.
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| 7 minute nude |
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| 5 minute nude |
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| 5 minute nude |
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| 10 minute nude |
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| 5 minute nude |
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| 5 minute nude |
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| 2 minute nude |
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| 2 minute nude |
It was a full-house at Konstnärshuset, I arrived five minutes before the start and there were no seats left. Thankfully, I had my light-weight tripod with me and had no problems standing at the back of the large room. There must have been fifty sketchers that evening. There was a large distance between the model and my failing eyes, I couldn’t see small details but when I think about it, maybe that was a good thing.
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| 5 minute nude. Fabriano A4 |
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| 2 minute nude. Fabriano A4 |
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| 5 minute nude. Fabriano A4 |
Still playing around with charcoal and pastels…
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| 5 minute nude, A4 Fabriano |
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| 2 minute nude, A4 Fabriano |
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| 2 minute nude, A4 Fabriano |
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| 15 minute nude, A3 Fabriano |
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| 5 minute nude, A3 Fabriano |
I enjoyed painting this, it was a real challenge. I darkened the sky and sea to make the boat stand out. I did this a day after I had ennitinally finished. It’s important to stand back a little and let some time go by before one finally decides that the painting is complete.
Brig Tre Kronor
“Four gentlemen with a passion for beauty, navigation and sailing vessels launched the Stockholm Brig project in 1993. The first drawings were presented in 1994, and in 1997 the Brig’s keel was laid on Skeppsholmen, Stockholm.” Read more about this beautiful boat here.
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| Brig Tre Kronor. Arches gf 300 g/m2, 36 x 26 cm. |