MOLESKINEMENT VOTRE

Hi,
That´s it, I´m an artist ! I finally jump in to the world of Moleskine.
The paper is pretty soft and it´s a real pleisure to draw with a 6B pencil. Format are interesting too if you consider to make a double page sketch. Otherwise on single page it´s a too small for me.
Last week we spent a few evening on the beach with the typical Norvegian picknic package: Barbecue, sausage and drink.
It was already around 9:30 or 10:00 pm when I noticed how the people were pushed away from the beach by the shadow. I had the impression to see a large wave of shadow cleaning the beach.
The boat I draw on the third sketch has been reconverted as cafe-theatre. They probably built some extra deck because the proportion are really unusual. In the meantime they are so interesting to draw.
The next sketch represent the town hall (called Radhuset) seen from the fortress. The architecture of this building is difficult to appreciate (personaly, I don´t) but the interior has been decorated with huge impressive painting from the beginning of the 20th century. It´s also the place where every year in december the Peace Nobel Price ceremony take place.
The two last sketches were done with the "artpen". The line drawing was too similar than my previous series of sketches and I was looking for some new tool I could explore. I stopped for now to use this pen but I´m thinking to use it for thumbnail studies lately.

That´s all for now . A special thank to Abel who offered me this first Moleskine sketchbook a few months ago. Now I´m addict.

Guillaume.

OSLO AND ROSENDAL

Hi,

I´ve been pretty busy this last month and the sketches I present you today were done few weeks ago. The first and the second are from Oslo and the last one was done during a trip in west of Norway.
Guillaume.

THE PENINSULA

Hi,

Bygdøy, the peninsula is only a few minutes away from work. I made those sketches late in the afternoon and it is still a bit fresh to stay outside more than an hour without moving when you draw.
The first sketch was done from the Marina (you can see it on the line drawing sketch)). The second was done from a trail leading to the beach. Both from the west side of Bygdøy.
It´s amazing to know that we are so close from the city center when walking around Bygdøy.
On the third sketch, you can see how the boats are kept safe and dry during the winter.
Guillaume.

THE OSLO FJORD LIGHT

Hi,

Two weeks ago, walking around Bygdøy, in Oslo, I´ve been facinated by this wonderfull light.
I´m now please to share it with you.
Guillaume.

Hi,

this is a life drawing selection from few last months. There are about 2 or 3 minutes pose, done with pencil drawing, brush pen with black ink or brown ink.
Guillaume.

BACK TO LIFE

Hi everybody,

I´m back!
The winter in Oslo has been amazing with such an amount of snow that they had not seen since 22 years (accordind the news). Now the sun is back and so do I.
Begining of the year, I joined a life drawing class. It´s a quick sketches class, 2 or 3 minutes poses max. I will show you some of them soon but right now I would rather restart my blog with few drawings I made a week ago during a trip in Copenhagen.
It´s a beautifull city, made for pedestrian but also a cultural city with some interesting museums such as the "Ny Carlsberg glyptotek"with an impressive collection of Antiques.
This time I worked only with pen. I think I will have soon to change tool and go for brush pen just to break the habit.

So, here is Copenhagen:

MORE BOATS

Hi,

it has been a while since I updated my Blog.
A few weeks ago I got my eye surgery and soon I should be able to work again normaly (right now, only close vision is ok).
Anyway, as you can see I am addicted to boat-drawings. I have a lot of fun drawing those contrasts beetwen large shapes and small details, shadows playing around, mirror reflexion in the water, the pier and its world of organised and repetitive shapes.
Here in Oslo we also have the chance to have some sailing- boats with complex ropes organisation...probably my next target.

I hope you will like them.

Guillaume.

OLDIES 2

Hi,

In 2000-2001, my wife and I made a trip to malaysia. We spent six weeks there, sketching almost everyday, traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Penang island, Langkawi island, Cameron highland, Fraser hill and Malacca.
We met wonderfull people there, having the honor to be invited to a malaysian wedding. A family invited us as well to share their night diner to celebrate the end of the "ramadan".
The beauty of the country and his people are always in our mind and we hope one day to go back there.
The sketches that I show you here are gouaches painted over a black ink first statement.

Guillaume.

New Ink wash

Hi,
I had a great pleasure recently to discover this boat, between Oslo center and Bygdoy. This first drawing was a good apetizer and I expected to come back to put on paper some other point of view... Unfortunatly the boat left recently.
"Pas de chance!!"
Anyway, I added some others ink washes done a fews weeks ago before I got this technical problem with my eyes....A damned cataract!!!!! That mean a slow production for the next month until I will have my surgery.

But I will take this oportunity to show you some old works from a few trips I have done.

Guillaume.

SKETCHCRAWL AND MORE

Hi,

Last month, I had the pleasure to join the Scketchcrawl Oslo group at Vigeland Park.
I had a lot of fun and it was a great experience. We were around fifteen artists from Norway, Sweden, Usa, India and France.
Gustav Vigeland was an artist who created 212 sculptures for this park. He started to work on it in 1924 and in 1950 , seven years after his death most of sculptures were placed.
The three first skecthes I show you were done at Vigeland Park.

The two last were done the week after and I enjoyed a lot to work again with ink wash. This is definitely my favorite medium for sketch.

Guillaume.