Summer, at last!

Sven's image of the view!

Finally, the summer arrived!
Unfortunately, that was yesterday. Today, the weather is as lousy as always.
And once again, we chose to stay inside. This time in one of our lecture halls (L 3115).

Image 1:Lecture hall L 3115.

Image 2: The view from the hall...

Image 3: Must be really nice to swim in that pool. Around, around and around...

The view from L 3115 is quite nice, and also, it is rather close to our café.

Lasse had gone away to Menorca (for a conference....he said). Jenny, Åsa and Karl were all occupied elsewhere, so Sven and Björn had to manage on their own. It worked just fine.

Björn's image.

Björn's image. This time I used my everyting-at-once-technique. It seldom works out fine. Still, I managed to complete it and a really good coffee afterwards. Life is great!

The spring went away...

...and we went inside, yet again.
This time to one of our local coffee places, the espresso house.

Espressohouse, in Eskilstuna, from the top floor.

and again, from the down floor.

Lasse and Sven discussing existential matters.

Sven's image.

Björn's attempt.

USK-ESK welcomes spring!

Yes, it was about time for us to come out. Out from the inside, that is. Something intensely yellow lit up the sky. We will google later, in order to be sure (Sun???)

Well, this tuesday we went close to the city museum (Stadsmuseet), not as close as we wanted, due to the fact that the iron gate was closed. Literally closed. And locked. Maybe they knew we were coming?

Image: this is where we ended up.

However, because of the sunny weather we did not cry at all - instead we started sketching like we had never sketched before!

Sven's image in vivid colors!

Lasse's image (in vivid greyscale!)

Björn used his LAMY-pen, this time with ink from Winsor & Newton. Great flow!

And of course, afterwards, we had some fika (i.e coffee and cake) at the café in the library.

A short video summary can be seen here!



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Land of Bergman...

The weather is still lousy, we´ve tried to kick start our deep frozen souls by watching clips from old Ingmar Bergman movies on youtube. Unfortunately, this did not work.

Do you play chess?

Instead, we went to our city library once again to do some sketching.

Sven's image shows a girl studying and doing stretching at the same time. Girls are said to be able to several things at once. Obviously, this is true.

Björn had a hard time trying to keep the book worm out of his picture. He did not succeed. This reminded him a lot of this annoying bird (shown on christmas eve in Sweden, for some reason).

Lasse's image

The library

It was a bit stormy this tuesday and we ran for cover in the library of Mälardalens högskola (i.e Mälardalen university college). Lasse stayed in the entrance and Sven and Björn went to the reading rooms. Björn beeing a quiet person, of course went to the quiet room.

Sven's image. Note that Björn hides there in the background.

Björn's image. A student studies there at the right. Or, more likely, he is updating his face book page.

Lasse's image from the entrance of the library.

At work!

Today, we stayed inside. The weather is lousy at the moment...or quite frankly, the weather is always lousy....It became even more depressing, since Sven and Björn had bought "urban chairs" to be used during sunny urban-esk-meetings...

Urban chair....

However, Lasse, Sven and Björn decided to find different places and gather around a cup of coffee (and discuss our pieces of work) forty minutes later.
We stuck to our plan. Coffee was great, of course. So was the cake.

Today, Sven went wide screen!

Björn, on the other hand, did the opposite.

Lasses image from "krockplatsen"which translates to...eh..a place to crash?

/Björn

A view from a cake!

Yes, we went to Café Kaka (which translates to Café Cake...or Café Bisquit), which has a new owner, but about the same coffee and cake = great. We sat by one of the windows.

This tuesday, only Sven and Björn were able to attend the USK-gathering. The spine of the USK-Eskilstuna group, according to themselves.

Hopefully, some of the other members will send in some images later on.

Sven's image of "Smörparken"(the butter park...yes, this is a strange little town.)

Björn's image of the ...well, we have no idea, but it is probably some sort of a sculpture.

/Björn

Tuesday outside! Mälardalens university

This tuesday, we went outside, for the first time this season.
As always, we were short of time and went to a place close by – which happened to be part of Mälardalen University.

Sven and Lasse are using our most important tools when sketching: coffe and biscuits.

Our patio

At work!

Sven's image

Björn's image and a commet from the artist himself: actually I am a few centimeters taller than Sven, which explains my perspective. I have no comment about the world's largest drain pipe....how could Sven miss that???

Lasse's

And this one is from Roberto (from Italy).

The Fort!

As always, we were short of time and decided to go a building (no spring yet!) somewhere close by. The next building happens to be "Fort F", which is short for "Fortifikationsverket". I will add some photos later on, because this place is impossible to describe.

However, we (Lasse, Sven and Björn) did find a really nice "patio". Björn, being a man of the north, sat outside, while Lasse and Sven (both with rather sensitive skin) stayed inside. Unfortunately, a great number of smokers came outside and bothered Björn and his creative process.

 Sven's image!

 Björn's image!

Lasse's image!

More stuff will arrive shortly!

IDT!

TGTA! (Thank God, Tuesday Again!)

We stayed in the building this time because of the arctic winter outside (c.f The day after tomorrow or just about any movie with penguins).
Sven had yet another mission to Stockholm, and the rest of the USK-Eskilstuna were somewhere else. Not to worrry, Lasse and Björn completed today's sketching just close to our MUX-lab (our centre for usabilitity testing).

Lasses image.

Björn's version of some of our students

Björn's other image.

We had enough time to have a cup of coffee and do some more sketches of our students. Hopefully, they will forgive Björn for his rough versions of some of them. Please forgive him!

I suspect that more images will arrive shortly!

/Björn

S:t Eskil

Today we (Sven, Åsa, Roberto, Karl, Lasse and Björn) did something extraordinary [as always].
We transported ourselves and our painting equipment to S:t Eskils gymnasium (i.e an upper secondary school for kids up to 18 years of age).

Svens image of the corridor on the top floor.

Björns image of Sven (painting the corridor of the image above...this is really complicated).

Björns image of the chair he is not in, at the moment (as I said, this is VERY complicated)

Robertos image

Lasses image.

Åsas image

Karl's first image. A view from one of the windows on the top floor.

Karl's second image.

More images will arrive shortly!

/björn