Painted during two lunch breaks last week. I am focused on improving my water impressions. One would think it’s easy because I’m working with watercolour, – not!
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Reflection, Arches gf 300 g/m2 27 x 26 cm |
It was the first evening at Konstnärshuset (The Artist”s House), it felt good to be back after the summer break. I’m still playing around with pastels and charcoal. All sketches were on A4 Fabriano sketch paper.
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It felt real good to be back life drawing again. I chose not to watercolour, instead I used pencil, pastel and charcoal. I was able to cover a lot of paper in a very short space of time with these materials. Very satisfying and lots fun, I smudged a lot with my fingers. All drawings are on Fabriano A4 sketch paper.
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10 minute nude. (Please click image to open slide presentation) |
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As a web designer, I help promote everything to do with horse betting and horse culture here in Sweden. My office is right next to the national trotting track (Solvalla) and so I see horses every day. It struck me a while back that they are just as interesting to study and draw as humans, such elegant creatures. I dedicated this weekend to drawing and painting them, to see if I could be as good as Joseph Zbukvic! No chance, I have a number of apprentice years left I’m afraid. I had fun doing them though, the weekend just zipped by. For all three paintings I used photos as reference care of Kanal 75.
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“Spring”, Fabriano Artistico gf 300g/m2 38 x 28 cm. |
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“Mountain air”, Arches rough 300g/m2 28 x 38 cm. |
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“Speed”, Arches rough 300g/m2 38 x 28 cm. |
Italian watercolour paper company, Fabriano have a block of ready made postcards to paint and send to your nearest and dearest. Here are two I painted last week, one to my mother in law, thanking her for my present, a shirt and the flowers I sent to my mother, lots of plus-points received.
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Watercolour postcards |