I had no inspiration for drawing ships so I tried with something new - to draw a house.
My fisrt attempt is the "Grand Haga palace". It was ordered by the Swedish king Gustavus III. (1771-1792). He loved the area where in 1780s had a romatic park made for his recreation. But he wanted more. He started palace plans in classical Italian styles. But after a while he changed architects because he wanted a more strict classical palace, now not just for recreation but also as a national monument for fien arts.
The building was started in 1785 but dragged on due to lack of money beacuse of costly wars. As the king was shot at an opera ball in 1792 the basement was finished, the work stopped an never restarted. The bricks was used for the wings at nearby Karlberg palace and military academy.
Today the ruins of the basement remains aswell as the park as popular recrational area in Stockholm. There are also two other small palaces in the park, Gustauvs IIIs Pavilion, which was built for the king when he waited for his grand new castle. It is probably one of Sweden's (and maybe Europes) finest late 18th century interiors. There is also the Haga castle, where the present crownprincess of Sweden lives.
Enjoy, a palace never where.
As I was not sure of the palace's color I made two suggestions.
The upper drawing's colors are based on the only existing model of the palace.
THe lower one is painted in the sand yeloow/ buff color which was the true fashion color for lthe Swedish late 18th century.
![[ img ]](http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii22/psilander/Swe-GrandHaga.png)
![[ img ]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/odo8nkti5dd6ovg/segerhall.png?dl=0)