Sketching with a colleague today.
We went to Christianshavn and did a couple of sketches, here's one of them.
This one is done in my beautiful new sketchbook, a Roberson 300gr cold pressed watercolour paper - a true beauty.
And my new pen: the Lamy Safari Foutain Pen (I can see an addiction coming) loaded with Higgins Black Magic, I'm hooked
A Couple of weeks ago I went to visit a very good friend who lives in Randers, a town 4 hours train ride from Copenhagen.
We had a great time, tasted the local beer, and did a lot of drawing. It's an old town, apparently one of the oldest in Denmark, my friend says.
Any way, here are the sketches. The one from the harbour (second to last) was drawn using a Fude brushpen from Zebra, real brushpens don't contain waterproof ink (unless you...) but I don't think the Zebra pen did any thing good for the sketch - I'll stick to my pens
It feels like years ago since last time I was out sketching. I have been wanting to draw this spot on Valby Langgade for a long time. I love that you can see that the house behind are timbered. And to top of the day, a friendly lorry driver cave my an ice cream - Uuhm! thank you lorry man
I have just spend 3 days in London with a group of danish illustrators. Visited a couple of museums, bought 5 kilos of books, but no cd's - What is that? as I helpfull shop assistant said: "We got dvd's" - but I'm old fashioned, I want cd's!
These sketches are from some backyard in Soho and rooftops seen from my hotel in Bloomsbury.
We spend the day in Dragør, a small charming place a few kilometers outside Copenhagen. and yep! that place is full of yellow painted houses too
Back on Vigerslevvej, sketching my mothers old school.
I wonder how much have actually changed since she was there. Obviously there are some new buildings, but I wouldn't be supriced if you can still find some old grafitti from her days, sometime in the 50's.
"Den Gule villa" or "the yellow villa".
The sun is out and spring is in the air, damn it's nice to get out and do some sketching.
I drew this house for first time a couple of years ago (Here), and back then I didn't know what it was used for - I still don't. I sketched it from the exact same angle, but this time in colour. I should have waited a couple of weeks adding the colours, because it is still a bit too cold for water colours - they just don't want to dry. I have heard that you can mix a bit of vodka in the water, and that will speed up the drying process, maybe I'll do that next time I'm out, if the temperatures haven't risen a couple of degrees.
The view from our livingroom vindow is the motive for the first World Wide SketchCrawl of the year - and my first urban sketch of 2014.
A warm apartment beats -4 degrees c. any day.
Haregade, Nyboder
Holmens Churchyard
The 41. worldwide SketchCrawl whent from Nyboder throught Holmens Churchyard and ended at Søernes Ølbar, where they serve some of the best beer - Nordic Rye to mention one.
A great day out, as usual, but rather cold
It has been an all day meeting day to day. So I decided to start the day with a bit of sketching since it will be the only drawing I will be doing to day.
This wasn't actually what I had in mind for a motive, But as it turned out my initial idea just wasn't that interesting, so a little piece of Copenhagnes rooftop it is.
