Anti-inflammatory

I´m having a cold. Stayed home from work yesterday and slept the whole day. Alvedon is my friend.

13 x 13 cm, Copic Multiliners and watercolours on sketchbook paper of unknown brand.

Hiding inside

The weather is extremely grey in Stockholm right now, with a drizzling rain making it impossible to draw outside. I sat in a café yesterday, and the view out the windows was so dreary I drew the coffee cup instead. The coffee turned cold before I remembered to drink it, I was a bit caught up in the drawing...

10 x 14,5 cm, Lamy Safari with Noodler´s Polar black ink, and gouache on crappy brown paper (because I forgot my real sketchbook at home - can you believe that?!).

A gray day

It´s been an extremely gray day in Stockholm today, so I made a gray drawing out the window of a little café I had never been to before. I like the contrast between these two buildings, one new(ish) and very strict and one old with odd angles and windows.

12,5 x 13 cm, Lamy Safari with Lexington gray ink and watercolours on some sketchbook paper.

21st sketchcrawl

Today was the 21st international sketchcrawl (check here if you haven´t heard of it before), and for the first time the Stockholm crawl had more than two participants. Yay! There were ten of us sketching at Kulturhuset, a huge building full of theaters, restaurants, libraries and other cultural activities, situated in the heart of the city. While we were sketching, a huge anti-war demonstration took place on the square below us, we had full view of the mass of people down there.

Most of the participants in today´s sketchcrawl were new acquaintances to me, and I´m so happy there are people in my own city that love sketching, just like me. Thank you guys, for making my day!

Top drawing: 12,5 x 17,5 cm, Lamy Safari with Noodler´s Lexington gray ink and watercolours. Second drawing: same measures, Lamy Safari witn Noodler´s Polar Black ink. Both on a rather crappy sketchbook paper.

...and a Happy New Year

One last drawing before the year ends. Our kitchen view again, this time in a cold winter light. The snow disappeared before Christmas, but the winter weather is smashingly beautiful anyway, with bright sunlight and a few degrees below zero.

I want to thank all of you who followed this blog during 2008, your comments and emails have meant a lot to me, you all make blogging well worth the time it takes. You are all a great source of inspiration to me.

Happy new year to all, and may your 2009 be a year filled with sugar and just enough salt to make life interesting!

Love,
/Nina

Merry christmas!

A window paper star in a Stockholm café brings my best Christmas wishes to you all. No snow where I am, but I'm sure Christmas will come anyway.

Week 47

I decided to try different themes on my weekly drawings, just to get some variation. Last week I went for Jan Vermeer van Delft. I like the light in his paintings, usually coming from a window on one side of the scene. He captures it so beautifully, and trying to translate it into ink hatchings was not really doable, but a fun challenge.

Week 48 didn´t get a weekly drawing, I have had so many other things to do. I don´t want these weeklies to become a chore, so I just skipped it this week.

26 x 17,5 cm, Lamy Safari with Noodler´s Polar Black ink and watercolours on unknown sketchbook paper.