The drawing spirit´s back
I´ve had a drawing hiatus for a week, the flu has been taking the best of me and holding a pen felt like an unthinkable thing to do.…
Watercolour experiments
As I said in my last post, I took a class in experimental watercolours last weekend. It was truly amazing. The teachers were great – check their work…
Another angle
So, now I´ve tried a few takes on the view from our kitchen window. I used different primary triads of watercolours, together with one earth colour, tried to…
Dip pens!
Every now and then I just have to bring out my dip pens and a bottle or two of ink. As much as I love drawing with Lamy…
Finally a bit of sun!
There were actually shadows on the buildings outside our windows yesterday, a bright cold sun managed to find it´s way above the horizon in the morning. What a…
Fold a simple sketchbook
I´ve been asked how I folded the simple one-sheet sketchbook I used during December, and thought I´d write a simple how-to. You´ll have to excuse the quality of…
A little art plan for 2008
2007 was the first year I ever had some kind of plan with my art. It worked out pretty well, I did almost everything I had set out…
Happy new year!
On the last day of the year I did an imaginary summer landscape… must be the lack of light in Sweden this time of year that inspired it.…
Getting messy
I´ve decided to go out of my comfort zone even more these last few drawings of my December challenge (to draw from imagination every day). I am going…
Tired of the reindeer?
I didn´t know Santa´s sailing to get around these days, but here he is. He turned up on the page as I was drawing, don´t know where he…