Finally finished
I have been busy with a lot of stuff – family matters and working on other pieces. Yesterday I finally completed the elegant frame around the Lamb painting. Garry had a little lamb, oil on plywood, 111 x 120 cm.
A landscape well known (at least here)
Our beloved Kullaberg has probably been depicted countless times, but this is another first for me. I don’t consider myself a landscape painter, but our lovely daughter and her marine biologist beau needed a new painting, so I made this for them. The view is from his home in Lerhamn, just south of Kullaberg. The […]
I have certainly NEVER done anything like this!!!
A new piece on the easel. A larger format, 110 x 120 cm, something I have wanted to do for a long time. It is not finished. The title will be “Garry had a little lamb”.
Another “I have never done this before”
Never before have I painted a small figure like this. The painting is only 28 x 20 cm. I have painted rather quickly… it was fun. The girl is my mom’s mother as a young girl, while she still had two arms. The frame is made of plywood strips (what else?), painted Van Dyke Brown […]
Gold on the floor
Gilding and playing around… just for fun.
Still life practices
Today I have had some fun practicing with some still life painting on plywood. No ambition to make art pieces, just letting the paint flow and build up layers. And the large painting has been installed.
Fine tunings and considerations
A painting involves an almost endless chain of decisions, some are self-evident in their nature (where to start and end a brush stroke, etc.), others are more deliberate and calculated. Now I am at a point where I am sitting down, spending time to just look. I am letting thoughts sink in, testing ideas in […]
Lots of blue
I have consumed a lot of blue. Some white remains to be added.
Big project, large painting
For some time I have been planning a new large painting to be in our main room. The old painting has been on display since 2011! About time to offer something new at the next Studio Tour in March 2018. The old painting will be “re-built”, more about that later. Follow the project I am […]
Recognition?
After a few days of painting, taking breaks, cleansing my eyes, adjusting, leaving, returning, pondering, touching up… the big question is if the young man in the painting can recognize himself? Will he feel confident with the work or will he detest it? What will his mother say? The piece is fairly large (130 x […]