Just did a little sketch about some creatures I came across, not sure, think the ears are not like the Elfs, but who knows…
Sketch of ferrytale creatures
Sketch in my Moleskine notebook, ink and watercolor
Jul 142010
Jul 082010
Nice sunny day here in Denmark and great to get outside again…
Managed to finish my work early today (illustrations) so I had a couple of hours on the local square sketching people, something I have been wanting to do for a long time.
Here are a couple of today’s street-sketches:
People walking by, brush, ink and watercolor
Watercolor sketch of a woman passing by
Woman sitting on a bench, watercolor
Ink and watercolor, woman in Copenhagen, Denmark
Hope to get out more sketching this summer, great to practice outside
Just a lot of hand impressions in ink and watercolor – a bit of an experiment, free to use
small hands on paper
What happens when angry people meet in the middle
Running towards the middle
Download the free larger print version here from Flickr
Drawing by Frits Ahlefeldt – free to download and use
Back on the small island called Bornholm out in the middle of the Baltic Sea.
Right now I am spending four days sketching and hiking on a smal island in the middle of the worlds largest brakish water sea between Russia, Denmark and a few other countries.
Here are a few of my sketches so far… and the little girl is my daughter up in her backpack
Bit of an experiment this – posting from my mobile phone
14 may,2010
May 022010
sketching on Bornholm, 2 maj 2010 – Sandvig
Jan 222010
Today (22 January 2010) I decided to try out sketching in the zoo, haven’t done that for ages… or at least weeks
First few sketches I did standing in the cold wind, had a bit problems as the water froze on the paper, without drying, and mixing colors were hard as it all became ice faster than I could put the layers on the paper.
But good part was that the structure, made by the freezing water on the paper – did ad a bit of texture:
Copenhagen Zoo, Moleskine sketchbook, Frozen watercolors and ink
Did a few more sketches outside, that was total disasters, before I went inside and visited the Chimpanzees :
Sketches of Chimps
And a Kameleon – very strange creature…
Kameleon, Moleskine sketch, Watercolor and Ink - Copenhagen zoo
Last I went on to the new Foster Elephant House and sketched the elephants there:
Fast ink sketch - Moleskine
And the last sketch today:
Elephant sketch, Moleskine, Copenhagen Zoo
That was my sketches today, I am still working on the techniques, and combining and practicing the balance between walking and sketching
Jan 202010
Black and White Sketches of stuffed birds
Did a few more sketches today in the Zoological museum in Copenhagen.
The Zoological Museum is very quiet in the afternoon, after all the school kids have left. And I almost had the whole place to myself, with whales, snakes, turtles, dinosaurs and ice bears all around. Great place for sketching animals when it is snowing and freezing cold outside, like today.
I used most of the afternoon studying the birds, surrounded by stuffed birds from all over the world, and with a few monitors playing short David Attenborough films for the birds.
I did around 10 sketches with ink, water and brushes.
Here are a couple of them:
a few sketches of birds
I really like owls and when I was young we actually had one of them living in our barn, and I can still remember how fascinating it was that the owl in there could fly right over my head, without making any sound and also when it turned its head all around and stir at me in the twilight with those big eyes.
Sketches of owls
Wonder where I will be sketching tomorrow…
Jan 202010
Did a few animal sketches in ink today on a local museum, with stuffed animals. I was almost alone in there with dinosaurs, sperm whales, owls, mammoths and bears.
Great day.
Work there to practice – great to study the shapes and forms of creatures from the last 500 million years of history
Study of a standing bear
study of parrots - ink and brushes
ink and brushes - owl study
I went to the cafe’ and did a fast sketch – of this creature – I am not quite sure if it ever existed outside my head:
sketch coming out of my head over a cup of coffee in the cafe'
That is all for today – will try to put up new drawings here every day here – lets see if I can do that…
Frits
Getting ready and warming up
sketch of a rhino - watercolor
Starting up my watercolors 2010, and did the first sketches today to warm up… just a few animal studies of elephants, rhinos and Giraffes, from books, sitting inside , here are a few of them:
Condor - detail-head
giraffe studies
group of elephants
hope to get out tomorrow with my watercolors – even though it is freezing cold and snowing.