All the work which goes into being a painter

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Yesterday I didn't get to do any work because my daughter found some unwanted critters in a couple of cardboard boxes under her bed. They are called long tailed silverfish - bearded critter in Danish - and came here from Norway where they wreaked havoc in archives and libraries. They are paper eaters! and this place is filled with books and drawings and graphic prints. It wasn't like millions of them, but it will be if nothing is done... Thursday the poison man will come to make an end to this rouge creature and its family.

So apart from cleaning the whole place with my eldest daughter, I also had to take care of a large pile of very old drawings, dating back from when I was 21 years old. At that time I was doing a lot of croquis and portrait training. Most of it I threw out - all the portraits which looked like the ones you can have made on Montmartre or on some of the squares in Rome or Madrid. But I put some of the nude studies, the still life and other stuff aside as it somehow represented a lot of honest work, and also some hilarious self-portraits so my girls could have a laugh.

So I took some fast photos of it all in case I later decide to throw it out. Always good to have a reminder of all the work that goes into becoming an artist. In the end there's more than 300 pieces and I know that I have thrown away even more. All of it was made in one year. Miracle I didn't go crazy :)

Nude studies tend to look very much the same, but here's a sample of how I spent my time when I was 21.

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Not a bad way to spend one's time at 21 haha.

They are really good drawings! 👍

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Nice drawings. All that practice obviously paid off. Have to put in the hours to get the skills.

Stay well.

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Yes, hard work is what it takes. Take care yourself :)

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Live drawn?

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Yes, live models. I got a deal with the art school that I could come as much as I wanted. There was always 20-30 people so the owner could afford it, and he wanted to get as many people into the public art schools as possible, so he let the most hard working of us just use it and only pay for a few courses. That way he could get a better reputation as a school that got people on to the academies and design schools. I got into the Royal academy in Copenhagen so I guess I paid him back :)

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I loved working with charcoal and conte crayon back in the art school daze.

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Yes, looking at these I felt like doing some more of that.

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The third one from the top is quite good.
This reminds me of my (late, mature) student days in Canada. I left behind a hefty portfolio from my figure drawing classes, never photographed them except a scant few. If they are still at my house over there, I have no idea. Last time I was there was 2016. My student days were 1977 to 1982.
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Cheers 🍻

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Yes, most of what I have produced is forgotten by me the moment I am on to something else. To save it, sign it and number the graphic was one of the earliest professional advices I got, and it was a good one. That these studies would surface was a surprise though :) Thanks, mate!

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