Mattias Inks

This is where you start paying, with sweat

Well drawing the first page was in the shadow, the second I was in the glory that is the sun. I left half baked, the sad thing is if you find a really charming house in this town it's sure to be in heavy decay.

the labors of Herakles

Slaying animals and cleaning out barns are so passe

A new drive for public transportaion, spent the better part of yesterday sitting on a bus or waiting for a bus. I visited Tassos

a window of opportunity

When I sat drawing this an old Greek lady spoke to me, my Greek is not that good but I think she hoped for the destruction of all the old Tobacco buildings in down Kavala.

When in doubt if you're in Sweden or Greece, remember: Greek City

Swedsih City

the Draughtsmans Sombrero

The day before the last I went up to the highest point in Kavala, there I found a Cross and this little building maybe it's for monitoring the inhabitants.

Ellis was a bit concerned that all the sunlight should burn my bald head, Ellis apparently never heard of the Draughtsmans Sombrero, a must for the outdoor Artist..

the color dimension

now in color. I've changed the format of the blog making the pictures bigger, you have to make the windows larger though other wist there will be clipping, not sure this is a better format.

Improving reality

When I draw the wires a couple of days ago I noticed some minor flaws in the Design

as you can see I fixed most of the flaws.

Even the digger seemed to miss someting

Will color this later it's cloudy today in Greece

Beach sketching

Made this sketch while relaxing at the beach after drawing the extractor of the last post, now I'm off to the beach yet again. There was some kind of rave party in Kavala yesterday so not to much sleep... In Greece the laundry dries in under one hour if you hang it in the open, the joy, the joy. I think I will wash alot here in Sweden you never can be sure when the next rain will come

You mean you travelled 2400 km to draw that?

well greece is not ll about fired food and whine, people have to make a living to.

This picture depicts the unlikely combination gas station and restaurant, maybe it's a common combination around the world. When I come to think of it's pretty common i Sweden...

Phillipi

Spent a rather hot afternoon at Philippi, the place where Caesars killers where fought and defeated. this is St Pauls (or was) Basilica.

A Ionic capital

a corinthian capital, could find any Doric ones, maybe they had gone out of style by then..

My wifes solo show

My wife Cecilia is having here first solo exhibition, the show opens this Thursday, August 28th, between 5 and 7 pm. It continues until September 17th. Wish I could be there! This is where you start paying with sweat

The day before yesterday I took a stroll up the hill to a little chapel, the heat and the climb made me sweat uncontrollable, luckily the place was empty and with a soft breeze rather pleasant.

Afterwards I choose to stay on my room, a room with a view, this little church has the unfortunate habit of tolling it's bells at 7 am. But at that time I ought to be awake already

the Mole

Have been doing some commission work this morning luckily my sketchbook is full of extra materials at the moment, this one I finished while waiting in München.

Ali doesn't live here anymore

Strolled up to the old town and came up on this stout fellow as it happens it's Muhammad Ali, who where born in Kavalla of Albanian origin he came to be Vali of Egypt (there's a rags to riches story for you)

Drawing car is not on of my specialties (I worked with car games for 5 years but failed to get interested by them) but as I here I thought I must start draw things I'm not so good at drawing.

Taking some time of I went bathing at the local beach while listening th a group of aspiring rappers (or wannabe juvenile delinquents) I made this design for a laptop at the same time.

I have a rather hard time finding something useful to do at the evenings, I fail to meet any of the other inhabitants of the house (I might have e

and remember, don't mess with the green pigs

Urban decay

Kavalla used to be the center of the Greek tobacco industry you can still see remnants of a glorious part while strolling through the city. If you come buy a interesting or beautiful building it's almost certainly in heavy decay. This first I did while sitting on a heavy trafficked way, a kind man stopped his car and gave me some water and a bottle of juice, very kind.

Hopefully the graffiti on the wall means nothing in particular, if you are able to read greek please see if you can decipher it's meaning. As a downside to drawing on place my but tend to hurt after one hour or so, hopefully a rich Greek Diet will put some much needed lard on my bony behind..

there's electricity in Kavalla

It took me quite some time to get down to business doing actual real life sketching, this is something I used to do quite a lot but I tend to draw more and more from my imagination. The temperature was well over 30 degrees (that's centigrades folks) my only companion was a stray cat, they are so small here in Greece makes our Swedish cat's looks like Pumas. On my way home I managed to get lost, Kavalla is like a labyrinth well at least I did not meet any Minotaurs and at last I bought a map and found my way back. I must have the worst sense of direction in the world.

Flight entertainment

One of the advantages of keeping a sketchbook is that no time is dead time, yesterday I went by airoplane from Stockholm to Kavalla over München, the trip took all-in-all 12 hours. This gave me ample time to draw, though my fountain pen started acting strange while in air.

I've tried to put some of my thought back into the drawing, if you care to read the comments you might (or not) get a clearer picture of the thoughts that crosses my mind while drawing

This is the first thing I saw this morning when looking out from my room, the Swedish house in Kavalla is beautiful (mor pictures to follow) everything breathes culture (how did I get here?)