This week I participated in Drink and Draw for the first time. It felt a bit intimitating, all kind of self doubt kicked in. It was intensive, fast, tiring and exhilarating all at the same time. Had a well-earned beer afterwards 🙂
Drawing started with 5 x 2 minute poses, then 5 and 10 minutes and ended with 2x 15 minute poses. These 2-minute poses were so quick! To get some additional practice, I joined DnD patreon page and did some afterdrawings.
Drawing is fun! And life drawing is extra fun. DnD sessions are so laudable. I haven’t done any life drawing for 20 odd years, since graduating art college, and tese events make it easy and accessible again.
Take care,
Hedvig
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Crafting a sketchbook
Last week the suggestion of making ones own sketchbook came up. That was a wonderful idea! I had some watercolour and vatman papers in A3 format just sitting in the cupboard, decided to use them both. I cut the sheets into 4 and folded signatures, 2 small sheets per signature and 2 signatures per A3 Read more
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Reflecting on drawing challenge
As promised last week, I want to reflect my thoughts on the drawing challenge. It collides a bit with the Sketchbook Revival (SBR) event which has given necessary nudge to elevate my practice. To start with sketchbooking habit, it hit me, that it’s a totally new thing for me. Despite childrens’ art school and art Read more
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Diving deeper into artsy mode
Spring has arrived! It’s rainy and windy, but crocuses, snowdrops and hellebores are blooming, adding colour to the dull and grey surroundings. The next big step is to switch from winter coat to sneakers and light jacket. This is my last week of “drawing for 45 days” challenge. It has actually taken 55 days. Also, Read more
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Just drawings
You know, working from nine to five is taking up a whole lot of time 🙂 Life happens every day and the window for drawing is really tiny. Still, better small than nothing! Here are my sketches from this week. Read more
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Anticipating spring.
Quite a busy week it has been. I’ve skipped a couple of days in my daily sketching challenge, but I did have an extremely good excuse – it was my birthday. I just can’t wait for the spring to arrive! I do understand it’s only March, but still.. I’m so utterly tired of snow, cold Read more
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Daily sketching
It has been an emotional week. Last Saturday we celebrated our Independence Day and this week it’s elections for Parliament. All media is full of debates, civil and less civil campaign activities. It’s very intense and people’s capacity to tolerate is pushed to the edge. Thankfully it’s going to be over tonight. Meanwhile I’ve continued Read more
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