Tag: Watercolour

Painting at Skanstull

Studio version of Skanstull

I had a great Tuesday morning painting plein air with Daniel Luther at Skanstull here in Stockholm. I felt I had too much foreground and not enough focus on the boat so I painted a studio version today. I have also included a sketch that helped me improve the compositi

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Video Watercolour

Meldrum Art – Watercolour Journeys

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2018/08/30
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Check out my latest YouTube video, In this episode I’m in Hiroshima, Japan. I feel that I am slowly getting more skilled at editing film, I hope you agree but please do send me feedback – be it good or bad.
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Tags akvarell, aquarelle, how to paint watercolour, learning watercolour, meldrum art, painting urban scenes, painting watercolour, sketching in japan, the art of watercolour, urban sketching, visiting hiroshima, watercolor, Watercolour, watercolour demonstration, youtube

Video Watercolour

My Watercolour Journeys takes me to Hiroshima

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Post date 2018/08/30
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Wet day in Hiroshima - cropped

I visited my son in Japan earlier this year.
Watch my latest video were I paint this watercolour and explore Hiroshima.
Click the YouTube link below.
https://youtu.be/gY4U_pDxGoY

Wet day in Hiroshima watercolour — Wet day in Hiroshima

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, how to paint watercolour, learning watercolour, meldrum art, painting urban scenes, painting watercolour, sketching in japan, the art of watercolour, urban sketching, visiting hiroshima, watercolor, Watercolour, watercolour demonstration, youtube

Sketch Watercolour

Urban Sketching is so much fun

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2018/08/28
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Gröna lund in Stockholm

I am currently editing my latest video, Meldrum Art – Watercolour Journeys (Hiroshima). It was therefore lovely to get a break at the weekend and meet my Urban Sketching friends on Djurgården to sketch a little.

Saunders Waterford sketchbook, 28 x 19 cm

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Watercolour

How to get better painting clouds

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2018/08/22
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Hooker

How does one get better at painting clouds? Well, that was the question I had at the beginning of this week. I admire Sergej Temerev a lot so really it’s not that difficult. I just looked at as many watercolours of his as possible, there is a good Pinterest page featuring his work, here’s the link. I also looked at all the YouTube videos I could find. I’ve done this before but one has to repeat and practice a lot if one wants to get better.

Title: Hooker on the horizon. 24 x 34 cm

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, art, boat, clouds, cutter, davidmeldrum, hav, hooker, meldrum, meldrumart, ocean, sailing, sea, sergej, sergeytemerev, sky, storm, temerev, watercolor, Watercolour, yacht

Watercolour

Nice to be painting again.

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2018/08/21
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The race - cropped

I had an amazing 14 day adventure up in the north of Sweden. We walked 125km though tough wilderness in Sarek National Park which lies above the Arctic Circle.
This painting which has nothing to do with Sarek has been at drawing stage for months and I decided on coming home to paint it and be done with it. I’m happy with many aspects of the painting, it is painted with confidence which pleases me considering I haven’t been painting watercolours so much recently. By the way, if you are going on a bad-ass trekking trip I can advise you to leave your painting gear at home, I personally was exhausted each day and I was more interested in climbing into my sleeping bag than creating a work of art. Next year I have promised myself a less rigorous holiday, one where I can spend a few hours each day doing some sketching.

I filmed a lot while trekking in Sarek and I will be posting several episodes of my adventures there at a later date. I will of course be painting watercolours that are inspired by my experiences too.