Krokodillegade, Nyboder

My very close friend Hans Christian, mostly known as Hubbi, had this to say about my sketch, or perhaps rather on the area where it was drawn:

As always you have picked an interesting motive.

Firstly, it is of course an interesting historical building in an interesting part of Copenhagen. The easily recognicable yellow walls signifies that we are in the older section of Nyboder, where the houses with the yellow walls were originally built for the sailors of the Royal Danish Fleet. Most of the houses have since been changed for myriads of reasons over the years, but the yellow walls remain. Originally the houses were split into sections that would have looked a bit cramped to us, but were fairly spaceous for their time.

One peculiar thing is that there were no stairs between the floors. The inhabitants made do with a rope hanging through a hole. - They were sailors and needed to keep their climbing skills honed when on land and this was seemingly the easiest way. - I imagine it also took up less space than stairs or even a ladder and probably saved on building costs as well.

Its a little piece of left over history in an otherwise busy Copenhagen, though I fear that no ropes or holes are left, as the modern Danes are sadly all weaklings that dislike climbing a rope to get to the second floor.

Treeleborg Vikings

Spend a day at the Viking Museum at Trelleborg with some very good friends. They are part of a one week viking festival, where they dress up as vikings, eat, sleep and fight as vikings.
A great day with show fights, good food, fantastic beer ( from Esbjerg Micro Brewery) and great company - and time for a quick sketch in the roasting sun

40th World Wide SketchCrawl

Teaterkroen, Nyborg

I messed up my summer holiday plans this year. Missing the 40th World Wide SketchCrawl, Tour de France, but most importantly this years Copenhagen JazzFestival. Instead I got a great holiday with my family - in fact, I didn't miss a thing. 

As I was cycling around Funen, My bid for this years International SketchCrawl is from Nyborg. I am not sure what the building is used for, but it is truely magnificent, and very very big, so I decided to sketch what I thing is the entrance.

Summer Holiday

Kerteminde

Kerteminde

 My dads pirate ship

Svendborg

 Our friends house in Svendborg

 Our friends house in Svendborg

We spend a week of our summer holiday on our bicycles, driving around Funen visiting friends, family and towns I have never been too. It's our first bicycle trip with our daughter, so we went by fairly easy, driving approximately 40 km a day.

Funen is truely a beautiful place and made for bicycling. The towns are small and charming, and great to sketch.

Rådmand Steins Allé

I have been working so much lately, that I haven't had the energy or time to go out and sketch. So this is a quick sketch of the view from our livingroom. 
Some people might hate the view, but we really love it. Pretty much after every dinner ,my wife and I turn our charirs towards the windows and enjoy the view

Get rid of your grease at Vesterfælledvej and Ingerslevsgade

Vesterfælledvej

 

Ingerslevsgade

 

Two places to get rid of your grease - A laundry and a tallow melting.

 

I really love the Laundry (Vascomat). The building is beautiful, colours and shapes are so well balanced. And the typography is so appealing, it almost seduce you to come in and wash your close.

It is the second time I'm sketching the laundry, and I might do it again in a couple of years. Here's my first sketch from 2009.

 

The tallow melting is situated in one of the new hipster places in Copenhagen. Duing the daytime you'll find butchers, lorry drivers etc walking around this area. But at night, you will be rubbing shoulders with advertising people, young designers, students and wanna-bes walking from one very hip night club to the next.  

Damhus Tivoli Part 2

The other day I visited the Damhus Tivoli again, to sketch the place before somebody desides to shut it all down.

A couple of working men was doing some stuff there, I don't think they were repairing any thing. As they walked past me, one said to the other: "we got everything here, except from open" - well they have a lot to draw, that's one thing.

Damhus Tivoli

About a 10 minute bike ride from our appertment you'll find Damhus Tivoli. It's completely deserted none of the attractions has been used for years - it could be the perfect place to shoot a zombie movie.

There has been a lot of talk about tearing it down, so I desided to get some sketches done before it is too late.
Some of the fruitmachines are still playing their music. A couple of teenage rollerskater girls used the mini golf track as their privat ramp before they decided to try and rob the slot machines for teddy bears. - I'm definitely going back there soon.

39th World Wide Sketchcrawl at Nørrebro

The 39th World Wide Sketchcrawl went to Nørrebro, and I think it's the first time I've been sketching in this part of Copenhagen. It's not my favorite part of Copenhagen, but it's an ok area.

The top sketch is of a sweets shop, I never realised that before afterwards when I was looking at my sketch.

Mosedalvej

I love sketching garages, but they are always too overcrowded with cars to actually see, so I never really get the chance. But today I was lucky - and I was lucky with the weather too. The sun was out, the snow is gone and only some drops of hail. It didn't start to rain and the snow came later in the day, so in fact, a good day for a sketch.