Eskilstuna and Dalarna!

Todays sketches, from Eskilstuna and Sälen (in the mountains where Björn is hiking at the moment.

Sven's sketch from Vilsta.

Hedvig's sketch.

Loona's sketch

Björn 's sketch (made during the lunch break on top of the world, while the mosquitos had the time of their lives...)

And tet another sketch from Björn (the chimney in the cabin)

Edinburgh and Eskilstuna!

This week, Sven went to Edinburgh (Scotland) for some trekking while Björn stayed in Eskilstuna working on his tan.

We have no idea about the rest of the Eskilstuna USK-team....

However, Sven sent his image by phone. Very modern, thanks Sven!


Sven's sketch

Björn's sketch of the view from his beloved sun bed...

/Björn

Trainspotting (almost...)

Today's sketch from Sven H!

Still vacation, but nevertheless yet another USK-Eskilstuna meeting.
This time we (Sven and Björn) went to "lokstallarna", i.e where very old trains end up when they die, or are fixed when severly injured. Actually, we have no idea what is done here. But the buildings are really nice (any urban sketcher would realize this!)

The end?

Somebody should really sweep the ground

Panoramic view!

Or motif.

Björn's image (from another angle). Most of the bricks are not there...

And afterwards, debriefing at Café Kaka.

Thanks for visiting!

The animal farm (Djurgården)

Sven's painting of the road to Djurgården, which translates approximately to "the animal farm". (To our knowledge, the place is tot related to George Orwell's classic novel)

Tuesday and still vacation! Well, it doesn´t make any difference for some of the urban sketchers in Eskilstuna. Of course, Sven and Björn met up at Djurgården (a park area just outside the city centre).
Where the heck are Lasse and the others?

Well, some photos of the area may be found down below.

Panoramic view of the Pilkrog restaurant and also the road from Sven's image (found above)

The artist (Sven) as himself.

Some of the old houses that have been moved here. Some of the are actually 15th century.

The midsummer pole is still there.

Björn's version of the Pilkrog restaurant

Thanks for visiting us!

/Björn

The Balsta castle of music!

Sven's image of the Balsta Castle (entrance)

This week, a monday meeting.

And finally, a place that truly rocks!

Literally. Balsta is a former hospital which (during the 1980s was transformed into a...well, I don´t know the english word for it, but it is place where young people go to play/create/experiment with music (the term "music" is used in its broadest sense). Quite noisy, from time to time... and why do they all the youngsters to have so long hair? And their clothes??? Somebody should tell them to behave properly ...

Björn's version

Also, there is a café and a recording studio. Björn is eager to tell everybody about his short (but intense) music career during the late 80:s when he had a little bit more hair, by the way.

The entrance!

Sven@work (note the Urban chair and the Urban cap!)

Panorama of the entrance and another house beside the main building.

Balsta Castle

"Fika" in Sven's amazing garden.

Björn at work. The bucket to the right is the punctum of this photograph.

Björn again. Lurking in the shadows.

And of course, the traditional Urban fika!

Eskilstuna City Park

Sven Holmberg's image!

The summer vacation has started – for Sven and Lasse, anyway. Björn is still at work. More or less.

However, Sven and Björn met in Stadsparken (the city park) to accomplish the USK-mission to sketch the restaurant/café called "Pramen". Pramen will be demolished this autumn. 

Thanks for visiting!

Sven at work (wearing his new USK-cap!)

Work in progress (Sven's...of course)

"Pråmen"

Björn's version of "Pråmen".

Hedenlunda slott

This tuesday we had our yearly conference. This time we went to Hedenlunda Castle (close to Flen)
Sven's image is found below!

Sven's image

Björn's image

Lasse's and Björn's to be published later

Sunny tuesday

This tuesday we had it perfect weather again, so we went outside to do some sketching in Eskilstuna. . And today, we were accompanied by our colleague, Hans Henningsson. Quite a character (as depicted in this image by Björns lousy pen...sorry, Hans!)

Mr Hans Henningsson it not himself today..

Sven's image of some people in a garden.

Björn's image of a garden somewhere...

Lasses image of a house and an old church.

Final exams!

This tuesday, we were all occupied with the final exams, i.e the final exams of our students.
However, we decided to do some sketching while watching the presentations etc.

Thanks for visiting!

Svens image of the exhibition area, in the background, our student Pontus "Le Dupont" Sandevärn plays (great) music.

(Find him here on Spotify)

Björns versions of a little bit of everything (on colourful paper).

Parque of Rinman!

"Rinmansparken" (The Parque of Rinman). 

Sunny tuesday!
We took our equipment outside, to a park close by.
Sven had bought himself another chair, since the last one wasn´t good for his legs. Poor Sven!

However, we sat down in the park and tried ignoring the screaming and playing of the thousand kindergarten kids. Poor us!

Sven's image of the monument in the centre of the park. 

Björn's image.

Lasse's image.

Sven shows Lasse how to get up from the chair...

Lasse tries for himself..

Fika! (coffee and pie!)