Sketchy habits

I need to make art daily. This is a rather recent intention, and I am going with the flow. No overthinking. Basically, I’m getting started immediately, and that is the most important thing.

Here’s my sketch for today. No kidlitart, just groceries.

Waldfriedhof

Library

Time to rescue my blog from inactivity!

Banana Bundt Cake (aka Gugelhupf)

It's been a while that I had a brush in my hand. Or blogged here. I have overused my arms at both home, painting, and at work, typing and handling stacks and stacks of paper. So, I have been taking it easy during the past few weeks, and will need to continue to do so.
Yesterday was the first time I did a watercolor sketch again in a long time (it felt rather wobbly).

Here it is, with the corresponding recipe!

Forest

Every once in a while, I just like to get out there and sketch what is right in front of me while birds are chirping all over and the rain is still dripping off the leaves.

Hazel

We had some gorgeous weather yesterday so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to sketch outside and get away from the drawing desk.
This is a hazel tree/shrub. There are hazelnuts in the project I am currently working on, so it was nice to sketch something related to it.

Clean Dishes

I do clean my dishes, by the way.

Dirty Dishes

Paints used: Daniel Smith
- a triad of ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, aureolin yellow
- a really big size 24 brush
- a smaller size 6 brush for details.

Dirty Dishes

Most of the time when I come home, my kitchen looks like this. By the end of the week, I really cannot avoid it any longer and I have to actually do the dishes. 

Well, not tonight - I decided to sketch it all before getting my hands all soapy. I got carried away and so another evening goes by in which I leave the kitchen mess untouched. It will all be clean come Monday though. Grrrrrmppphhh.

Here is proof I do clean them.

Bones

There is a taxidermy collection in my town, and I went to see it for the first time last Sunday. It was very fascinating but some of the items rather belonged in a cabinet of curiosities.

Made me feel too queasy to complete a proper sketch (Scroll all the way down to see it).
I left again after half an hour of being stared in the neck by human skeletons.

However, I can recommend it for sketch outings as the admission is free. One can sit quite undisturbed and sketch. Just remember to bring your own small folding stool.

Opening hours are 11 am to 5 pm on Sundays only.

Flower Bath

My poor orchid and succulents were so dry I had to give them a very long bath.
Well, I sketched them for long enough while listening to/watching the first episode of Suits and then the bath ended up being three hours overall.
I will drain the water now and put everything back to where it belongs :-).

My S8 commute

Two sketches from my commute on the S8 train today. 

When the sun is not out, everything seems so grey...

Sverige 2014

Back from Sweden. I realize I find sketching people much more interesting than drawing buildings. Also, it was very cold - sitting outside drawing buildings is something I'd rather save up for summer. 

Last Sunday, I met some of the Stockholm sketchers for a quick sketch (about 45 min) at the central train station. Next time I will need to stay for the whole thing :-)

Fjärdhundragatan.

Thank you, Anna and Przemek for a lovely week of holidays! And IKEA, of course.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor II pencils

Pentel waterbrush

Noodler's Bulletproof Black ink / Lamy Safari

HB Graphite pencil

Klingner & Rohrer Antiktusche Astoriabraun / coop fountain pen

Staedler fine liner

mostly W&N watercolors

Large Moleskine Watercolor sketchbook

Itsy bitsy sketch

This is the view from my kitchen window, and it's a tiny sketch.
A tiny sketch is better than no sketch!

The weather was so lovely outside and it was all looking just so georgeously autumny.

Oatmeal breakfast

I am on holiday!

That means I've got a looot of time in the morning to sketch my breakfast while waiting for it to cool down 😋 Oh I am enjoying this so much!!!

...and I was sketching in my triad sketchbook, too, with just three colors:

French Ultramarine, Alizarin Crimson, Aureolin Yellow.

BCN USk Symposium sketches

Alright, so here they are. I promised Neta, my USk flatmate for 3 nights, that I'd post them:

Sketches from the 4th International Urban Sketching Symposium in Barcelona, July 2013.

 

Sketches are posted in their chronological order.

I was dealing with a couple of unexpected health issues, not sleeping and food problems made it difficult to be 100% there throughout the day and sketch in that hot climate. 

I did not meet as many people as I would have liked and I did not manage to splash as many sketches onto my sketchbook paper as I had planned, but I gave it my best.

I would not have missed it for the world :-)