Nina Johansson

Just a quiet evening.

17,5 x 12.8 cm, Snowman ink pen and watercolours on Plano drawing paper.

Day six. Probably the most uninspired drawing in this series so far – lack of time and darkness are not helping. But a challenge is a challenge, ain´t gonna quit now.

17,5 x 12.8 cm, Snowman ink pen and watercolours on Plano drawing paper.

The angles on this thing… but the coffee is great, and  trying to balance it on the smallest burner on our gas stove every morning is a true adventure.

17,5 x 12.8 cm, Snowman ink pen and watercolours on Plano drawing paper.

Day four. This works for us.

17,5 x 12.8 cm, Snowman ink pen and watercolours on Plano drawing paper.

I tried to capture my brother this time, but I am not that great with portraits, so it doesn´t much look like him. Still, you have to start practicing some time, huh?

17,5 x 12.8 cm, Snowman ink pen and watercolours on Plano drawing paper.

The second drawing in the December series. Drawing while mostly listening to a movie on tv.

17,5 x 12.8 cm, Snowman ink pen and watercolours on Plano drawing paper.

Back to drawing, after my adventure in France! A friend challenged me to do one drawing of an everyday subject each day in December. Who can say no to that? I´m in. This is the first, I´m just getting started on the second.

17,5 x 12.8 cm, Snowman ink pen and watercolours on Plano drawing paper.

This is the rest of what I did on that day at Beckholmen. Drawings that go across the gutter of my sketchbooks usually don´t fit in the scanner, so I need to scan them in parts and put them together in Photoshop – which takes longer time, and time is not plentiful right now. The long wait between posts is due to exhibition preparations, so I have my hands full with all that needs to be done before next week. I´ll tell you more about it real soon!

37 x 17,5 cm, Namiki-Falcon with Platinum Carbon ink and watercolours on Arches Satinée 300 g watercolour paper.

Café Valand is one of my favorite cafés in Stockholm. The place was opened in 1954, and hasn´t changed since. Still the same owners. Entering is like going back in time. You can´t find a cappuccino in here, simply coffee or tea, with or without milk and sugar. Not a whole lot of cookies and cakes to choose from either, compared to other cafés, but everything is homebaked, with care. And the atmosphere comes for free.

17 x 17 cm, Namiki Falcon with Platinum Carbon ink and watercolours on Arches Satinée 300 g watercolour paper.

A more elaborate drawing today – sat down outside Sko-Wera at Odengatan to draw their amazing neon sign and retro store front. The owners came out to see what I was doing as they were closing up for the day, and told me the sign is from the fifties. It´s been renovated, but it´s still the same sign. It is gorgeous when lit, with green neon.

18,5 x 17,5 cm, Namiki-Falcon with Platinum Carbon black and watercolours, on Arches Satinée 300 g watercolour paper.