Urban sketchers´symposium in Amsterdam
I had the great honor of being one of the workshop instructors at the Urban sketchers symposium in Amsterdam in 2019. As usual, four days of fun, meeting…
The summer house 2019
I spend some time at the summer house every year, and of course try to find time to draw while I´m there. Sometimes I feel like I must…
Drawing insects
Every year I teach a course in scientific illustration at work, and one of the assignments that my students have is to draw an insect from close observation,…
Dessiner Liège 2018
A nice surprise landed in my mailbox recently – the book put together from the Drawing Liège event in 2018. So pretty, with drawings in every technique and…
The origins of the Sleepers
Sometimes it´s fun to take your sketches a bit further, to see what you can do with them in another medium or as an idea for other works.…
The same view, over and over
I train commute to work. And every day I pass by this view from a train bridge outside Södertälje, and every day it looks different. Isn´t that amazing?…
Revisiting the vintage garage
I have been revisiting the veteran garage near where I live every now and then during the last year or so. This is a place where (mostly) retired…
Painting with slush
Every winter I suffer from sketcher’s abstinence. It gets too cold for drawing outdoors, the ink in my fountain pens stop flowing, and watercolours freeze on the paper…
Inktober 2018
The last few years I have participated in Inktober, a drawing challenge where you make an ink drawing every day for the month of October. It was started…
Skröna – a very long sketchbook
Skröna (Tall tale) is a long sketchbook with pencil drawings concerning a summerhouse I share with my extended family. I worked on it for most of the spring…