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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…

  • Post date August 14, 2019

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…

  • Post date July 25, 2019

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,…

  • Post date July 20, 2019

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…

  • Post date June 30, 2019

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.…

  • Post date June 23, 2019
Södertälje syd x 4

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?…

  • Post date April 21, 2019
Volvo fire engine

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…

  • Post date February 25, 2019

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…

  • Post date December 31, 2018

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…

  • Post date November 10, 2018

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…

  • Post date October 1, 2018

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