meldrum artI managed to squeeze a watercolour into my lunch break last Monday. It took 30 minutes, I am pretty happy with the result considering the time-window. I used Fabriano Artisico GF, 300g/m2 and it’s 14 x 20 cm in size.
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| View from Stadshuset (The Town Hall) 14 x 20 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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| 10 minute sketch |
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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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| Philip Dvorak |
His art is erotic and I just love the way he crops his subjects. Reminds me of Egon Schiele.
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. |
I’ve been enjoying myself this weekend. Non-stop watercolouring for two days, heaven! I have chosen horses as my theme for painting. It’s a lot of fun, I’ll publish some of them later today.
It was our turn to guard the boats at the sailing club last week. It was an all night thing, one just had to drink pints of coffee, chew endless amounts of candy and draw a little to pass the time.
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| A sketch of an image from the internet |
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 |
I completed this watercolour tonight. I used an “eye of the storm” photo I took during my kayak trip as a reference. The boat came from a postcard that I have on my wall, close to my desk.
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| North of Finnhamn. Fabriano Artistico GF, 300g/m2. 38 x 28cm |