Saturday at Musikhuset

Saturday meet-up with my sketchbuddy Anette at Musikhuset in town.







Anette's sketchkit:


I brought along my extra large watercolour sketchbook:


This was my wonky warm-up sketch - click through the image for a larger view:




Top sketches are done using a pentel brushpen with ink in my pocket sketchbook; lower sketches are done using waterbrush, watercolour and watercolour pencils in my extra large watercolour sketchbook.


all photos in this post are courtesy of Anette

Exams

S and her friend studying for oral maths on Monday.


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Watercolour and watercolour pencils in large sketchbook - double A4 spread.

A cup of coffee

Meeting with Clemence and Stanley for a cup of coffee at Café Stiften today, before they caught their train to Germany.



Markers and colour pencils in pocket sketchbook.

Sun bathing

We finally got a couple of days of dry weather. I grabbed the oportunity to sketch my colleague sun bathing on the balcony outside our staff room during lunch break today.



Blue colour pencil, sanguine fineliner, grey Pitt brush marker, and black Pentel brushpen in my pocket sketchbook.

European Championship

Another spectator drawing - Luis and Antonio Miguel keeping track of both the Sunday evening matches at once. Are you watching the championship?

Click through the image for a larger view.


Watercolour, waterbrush, and watercolour pencils in A4 sketchbook. Doing these full spreads means a lot of space to play in - I'm enjoying it.

Football

The European championship is offering lots of oportunities to sketch viewers - here's R, not letting a cold come between him and the match tonight.



I did a double spread in my A4 watercolour sketchbook - click through the drawing for a larger view.

Waterbrush, watercolours (mostly yellow ochre, burnt umber, payne's grey, a touch of medium cadmium red, and palette crud), and watercolour pencils (mostly ochre, grey, and medium flesh).

Weekend

My sketchbuddy Anette and Luis Simoes at work in Pustervig square.



This weekend was all about sketching. More to come later...

A visit

Yesterday Luis Simoes, a portugese sketcher traveling the world for the next several years with his sketchbooks, arrived in Aarhus. (You can read a bit about his project here)



We looked through his sketchbooks, heard about the trip this far, and talked a lot of sketching! Today I went sketching with him in town, and a day of frequent showers and mellow temperatures kept us alternating between indoor and outdoor sketching.



We started out with a wake-up sketch over the breakfast table, and I tried out the Pentel brushpen in my small pocket sketchbook - today I managed to find new cartridges in town, and I will no longer have to economise on the ink.



The ink brushpen works really well in the moleskine sketchbooks with the coating to absorb the ink quickly and cleanly.

 

In town we did a few quick sketches by the canal, before being chased off by a persistent shower.



We moved on to Aros Museum, and went up on the roof to experience, and sketch inside, Olafur Eliasson's installation Your Rainbow Panorama - you can see some of my photos taken inside the installation earlier in this post: yellow. Afterwards we moved down to the ground floor where we both sketched Ron Mueck's sculpture Boy.



We rounded off the day with a bit of sax and a bite at a cafe.

 

All the sketches of the day were done in my pocket moleskine using markers, colour pencils, and a pentel brushpen.

Sketching in town

Impromptu meet-up with sketchbuddy Anette today. We started out at Folkekøkkenet, Godsbanen - the place has some great architecture, which we weren't up to tackling today, so we settled for some simpler subjects.

Here is Anette's sketch of the brunch buffet:


I had a go at sketching her while she was busy:




Afterwards we went on to Aros Museum, which also has some spectacular architecture, especially inside. I spotted the current groundfloor installation - a fatboy palette - and just had to do a sketch of it. Looking down from the floor above:




Anette did a sketch of the street-performer sculpture, which always fools first time visitors - here it is in progress:


Watercolour in the A4 watercolour Moleskine today - I brought my little palette, a waterbrush and a selection of watercolour pencils.

Infusion

9B graphite pencil in Handbook travelogue.

Muddy colours and rough strokes

Under the weather again. Payne's grey, burnt umber, ultramarine, yellow ochre, touches of raw umber and cadmium red. Bits of watercolour pencil. In x-large watercolour moleskine.

More watercolour

Another couple of experiments - straight to paint in both of these.




Monochrome sketch using Payne's Grey only

 



Both done in my extra large watercolour moleskine (A4) using a waterbrush.