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Lost in the dream

Frits — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:56:06 +0000

Sometimes the price for putting visions into reality is higher than first estimated…

... and he felt he was almost there...

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Puzzle woman

Frits — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:08:12 +0000

Two drawings:

Puzzle woman 1

puzzle woman 2

Caged

Frits — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:39:22 +0000

Drawing about looking at the bright site

Getting the best out of the circumstances

Gone in Colors

Frits — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:21:55 +0000

Drawing of a guy walking and daydreaming

Letting the thoughts drift

Drawing By Frits Ahlefeldt

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Could it be Elfs?

Frits — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:11:25 +0000

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

Sketches 19 january 2010

Exploring the mind

Frits — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:25:49 +0000

Most of the famous peaks and blank spots on our maps have been conquered today, but there are still a lot of unknown terrain around and inside our heads.

Exploring unknown territory

“Because it is there” is a famous quote by the English adventurer George Mallory, said, when he was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, a short time before he and Andrew Irvine started their fatal attempt on Mount Everest (June 1924).

Drawing is free to download and use – from here or on Flickr.com here

Fast Moleskine notes, Kullaberg, Sweden 2010

Frits — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:39:56 +0000

“It is the warmest day in the last few years” they said in the news, and I was up out on a solo coastal hike in Sweden trying to find my way around unknown terrain, no routes here, just my stubborn melting figure against the burning sun, trying to climb fences and find my way around the coastline up in southern Sweden on what I hope one day will be a hiking route.

I was constantly running out of water and drinking so much that I, for the first time, began to understand the fancy drinking tube systems other people are using.

A few times I scratched down fast drawings in my Moleskine book and here are a few of them:

First one is from the small town I started out from. It used to be a fishing Village, but now rich business people are everywhere and the local market sells mostly expensive gourmet food, while Porches and open BMW cars are parked in front of the small old fishing cottages.

I took a break here on a little harbor cafe’ watching life in around the harbor with Padi Scuba courses, beautiful sailboats and business magazine reading seniors.

Mölle, a small fishing village, Kullaberg, Sweden

I went on from out to the lighthouse and from there walked on – and here are a few more sketches:

I came by the famous wood land-art sculptures at Kullaberg, called Nimis, in the self exclaimed micronation of Ladonia, check them out here: Nimis on Vikipedia.

Detail from the Nimis landart sculpture in Sweden

I went on along the water, great views and a bit tricky walking on loose, large stones, finally I reached this very quiet small village, where I found a cold Coca Cola and all the locals gathered down by the harbor watching the summer play.

Summer play at Arild in Sweden - Fast Moleskine sketch, watercolor and Ink

Walked on while the sun went down and camped at the pebble beach a few hours later, it was dark – but I could hear a lot of sheep and fell asleep untill the sun woke me up very early next morning.

Last sketch is from the next day’s long and hot day hike.

The drawing is from a place where I went through a little coastal forest and got a chance to sit a moment in the shade.

Walking in a small coastal forest, getting closer to ängelholm, my destination

Street-sketches 8July-2010

Frits — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:46:00 +0000

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

untrue statistics

Frits — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:44:16 +0000

More and more statistics are fabricated to match a special point of view…

showing how wrong statistics are increasing in recent years

enjoy and download the free print version here to show as “proof”:

Link to print version from Flickr

Drawing by Frits Ahlefeldt, HikingArtist.com

Fish revenge cartoon

Frits — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:44:09 +0000

when a lot of fish hits back

Falling fishes

I’m not quite sure what exactly this guy did to cause this…

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