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Currently exploring bird paintings & portraits in various media.

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From yesterday's portrait session with Miles Mlamb

From yesterday's portrait session with Miles Mlambo @shambomlambo hosted by @drawbrighton. Couldn't attend at the time it was on, but luckily Draw Brighton provides replays if you're a Patreon. 🙂

the drawing was done with my new Sailor Fude pen. Coloring with alcohol markers. The Sailor pen still has the original ink cartridge inside. I was surprised to see that I can color over with the markers as much as I like without smudging. Wonder if it's the ink or the paper. Can't really say what kind of paper it is as it's in an inexpensive A5 DecoTime twin sketchbook from Action. Feels like Bristol paper. 🤔 Ok, I just tried various other black brushmarkers and pens that would smudge on other papers I used with the alcohol markers. It's the paper. Good to know. 🙂

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A few weeks ago my bestie told me of a project Dut

A few weeks ago my bestie told me of a project Dutch comic artists Paul Reichenbach and Herman Roozen had come up with for the @kamperstripspektakel, a comic art event in Kampen, Netherlands: a little booklet with illustration of fictive comic characters Daan Dapper as Sinterklaas & Dolly Donder on a bike. So Albert and I decided to give it a go and draw something for that special edition booklet as well. This is my contribution. 18 artists in total made it into the booklet which is sold exclusively at the Kamper Stripspektakel today. Wish I could be there too, but at least @albertvoorhorst took some pics for me. 😊😘

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Another one from Saturday's turquoise themed Zoom

Another one from Saturday's turquoise themed Zoom life drawing session with Emily Metalskin, hosted by art director Judith Yaws. Loved the outstanding set of poses, costumes and props the two created. 4 hours of surreal magic. 🪄😊

This one was done with my ArtGraf water soluble charcoal pencil on some Chinese watercolor paper I bought on Temu. It was supposed to be polypropylene paper but magically changed to thin wood pulp paper on the way here. 😂😂😂 Well, I've seen worse paper. Not the shop to order paper from, that is something I know for sure now. 😉 Anyways, prepped it with watercolor before the session and added some Japanese gold color to the flower today.

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Another one from yesterday's fantastic Zoom life d

Another one from yesterday's fantastic Zoom life drawing session with the even more fantastic Emily Metalskin, hosted by art director Judith Yaws. The theme of the session was the color turquoise. Loved the outstanding set of poses, costumes and props the two created. 4 hours of pure surreal magic. I have to work on most of the drawings still, but here are the first ones (in seperate posts).

During the session I mostly used blue sketching ink in my Parallel Pen, watercolors and oil pastels. Added more of these today.

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One from yesterday's fantastic Zoom life drawing s

One from yesterday's fantastic Zoom life drawing session with the even more fantastic Emily Metalskin, hosted by art director Judith Yaws. The theme of the session was the color turquoise. Loved the outstanding set of poses, costumes and props the two created. 4 hours of surreal magic. I have to work on most of the drawings still, but here are the first ones (in seperate posts).

During the session I mostly used blue sketching ink in my Parallel Pen, watercolors and oil pastels. Added more of these plus black Kiwaguru ink today.

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Emily Metalskin after one of her self portraits wh

Emily Metalskin after one of her self portraits which she so generously allows us to use as reference pics. Thanks, Emily! 😊❤️ I started with a pencil sketch and the decided to give the tempera colors my neighbor gave me for Christmas a try. Never used tempera before and I'm not sure I will again. But then again, one's got to get used to new materiarls first, no? 😉 I used some ink on top to get finer lines, but the ink of course behaves totally different on tempera to what I'm used to from watercolor. So, I'm not entirely sure I'm done with this pic yet. Maybe I'll try some patels on top. 🤔 I let it rest for a few days and then see if and how I'll proceed.

Oh, and if you'd like to draw Emily in a Zoom life drawing session, @judithyawslife will host a 3-hour session, inspired by the color turquoise this Saturday. Hope to see you there! 🙂

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Here's another one from @silhouette_and_shadow's F

Here's another one from @silhouette_and_shadow's February Drawathon, this time our model was Amber Rousse, holding a glass bowl in front of the camera to create these amazing distortions. 🙂

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I have to finally post a few drawings I did earlie

I have to finally post a few drawings I did earlier this year (and last) as I come across them. 🙂 I start with this one, from @silhouette_and_shadow's February Drawathon, the model was Dalawn Simpson.

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Emily Metalskin again, this time after one of her

Emily Metalskin again, this time after one of her self portraits she generously provides for artists to paint. Thank you, Emily! 😊❤️ This one she called Ghost Dust. I loved the light in it, the string contrast, but also the way Emily seemed to dissolve into the light. Started it as an ink sketch about 3 months ago when she posted the photo. Something didn't feel right so i never posted it. Today I looked at it again and added stronger contrasts and shadows, with soft pastels this time. Not sure if I'm really happy with the result, but I don't think this drawing / painting will get any better. It's in an A5 sized sketchbook, so not really big.

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And that is the other one of the finished two sket

And that is the other one of the finished two sketches from a lifedrawing session from @scottishborderslifedrawingclub with Adrian @modbodadrian last weekend. The session was inspired by works of Michelangelo. They only needed a little bit of work before posting, but during the week I just couldn't get into the zone. I'll post the pics seperately. That pose was amazing and cudos to Adrian for holding it so long. 👏🫶 I was mainly working on the backgroud yesterday cause somehow I had decided that adding some red with my new gel crayons around the figure was a good idea. It wasn't, not with Adrian just being surround with a rough red blob. 😂😂😂 With some acrylic paynes grey added however, and more gel crayons to give it a bit of a flaming touch🔥, however, I like it. Unfortunately this one too is done on the cheap A3 sized sketchpad from Action.

Thanks for a great session, Adrian and Deryck! 🙂🔥🔥🔥

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Also finished two sketches from a lifedrawing sess

Also finished two sketches from a lifedrawing session from @scottishborderslifedrawingclub with Adrian @modbodadrian last weekend. The session was inspired by works of Michelangelo. They only needed a little bit of work before posting, but during the week I just couldn't get into the zone. I'll post the pics seperately. This one's from the portrait pose, done with my Pilot Parallel Pen, but I added some turquoise Herbin ink to the little that was left of the black in one of the cartridges. So I'll probably never get that specific shade again one the cartridge is empty. 😀It's done on some A3 sized cheap sketchpad from Action. Very smooth paper, but actually to thin for my liking. Have to get a proper big sketchpad again.

Thanks for a great session, Adrian and Deryck! 🙂🔥🔥🔥

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The stunning Emily Metalskin again, this time from

The stunning Emily Metalskin again, this time from a reference pic of a limited photoset she and Judith Yaws (who tooks the photos) recently did - Emily in the rosegarden (still available btw, just go to Judith' page). 😊❤️ I started with a pencil sketch a few days ago, liked it sofar, but definitely wanted to color it. Worried to fuck it up (it's also the first page in a new Khadi sketchbook, so doubly worried if you know what I mean 😂) I waited till the weekend. Yesterday I finally grabbed brush and colors and got on with it. Pic no. 2 was the result. Not happy with the green(s), to much distraction from the main focus, Emily. So today I went over some parts with soft pastels, to darken and simplify the pic a bit. For the time being I'm ok with it. 😉 But I might do another, monochrome, version with ink. Or graphite. Or both. 😂

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Last weekend I went for a little walk up to our Ja

Last weekend I went for a little walk up to our Japanese park here in Vienna, the Setagaya Park. It's a beautiful place and not to far from where I live. Perfect location for some urban sketching. 🙂 Just made a mental note to never go back there on a Sunday. Horribly crowded and way too loud for a meditative place like this. I started the painting there, but fiddled with it later this week back home.

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And another one from yesterday's inspiring session

And another one from yesterday's inspiring session (inspired by the sculptures and drawings of Alberto Giacometti) with Butoh artist Ferzam, hosted by Helen Roeten. In the beginning Ferzam talked about why he chose Giacometti as artist of inspiration for this session, and although I could only hear a few words, as a parcel delivery happened just at that moment, I think it was at least partly about those past Covid years and how lonely many of us had become. That pose - it looked like a reverse scream, you know the one from Edvard Munch, seemed to reflect on that sentiment perfectly. It certainly touched me deeply. The world coming at us thick, while we're depleted, exhausted, and alone, everything upside-down. It's my fave drawing from the session.

It's been done with a watersoluble charcoal pencil from ArtGraf and PanPastel colors on grey paper.

Thank you, Helen and Ferzam for all the inspiration last night! 🙂😘

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One from yesterday's highly inspiring session with

One from yesterday's highly inspiring session with Butoh artist Ferzam, hosted by Helen Roeten. The session was inspired by the sculptures and drawings of Alberto Giacometti, and of course als by Japanese Butoh dance.

Thank you, Helen and Ferzam for a great evening! 🙂😘

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The stunning Emily Metalskin again! One from Judit

The stunning Emily Metalskin again! One from Judith Yaws Life Drawing Marathon last Saturday for World Art Day. Thanks to all the wonderful Models, and of course to Judith for organizing this wonderful event. 😊❤️

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This one is after one of the awesome photographs o

This one is after one of the awesome photographs of American people by @earthsworld. I am stunned by the characters he manages to catch with his camera. I started out with a generously putting some of my new Qor watercolors on a square sketchbook page, and then applying some plastic foil to create texture and an element of surprise. So, the splatters are no splatters but kind of a print, a transfer of color from plastic to paper. I think it worked beautifully in creating the textured skin. Then I worked on it with my also recently bought Caran d'ache Museum watercolor pencils. They'd been on my least for a loooong time cause they cost a shit ton of money, but Amazon had them on offer for about 45% less. What is an art supply addict to do? I just had to buy them. 😂😂😂

Back to how the artwork was made, after working with the pencils, I added more water and colors, then more pencil lines, and so forth until I was happy with the result. Hope you like it as well. 😊

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Inspired by an Icelandic landscape from a referenc

Inspired by an Icelandic landscape from a reference pic kindly provided by Sann Rene Glaza in the FB group Landscape Reference Photos for Artists. I loved the blues in the photo. 🙂

Mostly used Roman Szmal watercolors for that one, but also Derwent watercolor pencils and a soft carbon pencil from ArtGraf.

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As tonight (my timezone at least) there will be an

As tonight (my timezone at least) there will be another session with Emily hosted by Judith Yaws, I thought I'll post another one of my portraits of the fabulous Emily Metalskin.

This one is from last summer. Emily was holding up a real ice cream which started melting and running down her arm, to the floor. Think it was a 20 minute pose, so you can imagine that ice was running fast on a hot summer day. I'm sure cleaning up after that session was no fun. 😬 The painting was done with my Pilot Parallel pen, various dilutions of black ink, and Japanese watercolors.

Tonight's session will be inspired by the icons of the dark side - you should totally check it out! Just go to Judith' page (the handle is below) and book a ticket! It will be so worth it! 🔥😊

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OMG, I just discovered I can now post from my PC t

OMG, I just discovered I can now post from my PC too! No need to type texts here, send them to my phone and then copy paste them to Insta there! 😊

Got to try that with another one of Emily Metalskin. This time from a session organized by Henley School of Art last December.

What I used for this one was my Pilot Parallel pen, a pink pencil, I think one of the Faber-Castell Black Edition neon colored ones. And some Sennelier oil pastels from one of my Scrawlrboxes.

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