An Art Work A Day

Hi
Today was my last day at work in 2006 and I am now ready for Christmas preparations.

Lately I continue to be hooked on learning to draw and am sure it will improve tremendously the quality of my painting in 2007. I devour how to draw books and look for angles and values whereever I see these days. I even catch myself LOL comparing the eyeshapes of the men in a chorus on tv. My life has truely changed with art.

Hers are a few photos I took this morning while walking to work (car battery was down) - Enjoy!

I'll probably use them as reference photos for paintings later.
Trine

Hi as you can see in my profile, I am a teacher and these days there is the maraton to get all papers graded and all reports done before the holidays. I hope to be back during the wekend or early next week to show you more of my work
Trine

Hi
This blog is fairly new and only contain a few of my works. For those interested in seeing other works please visit my first logg at www.freewebs.com/mtv65.

My plan is to work on my art every day, but naturally not all works will be finished in one day and some periods I will work on improving skills meaning that not all works in progress will be shown on this blog. Most of what I do will be put on www.freewebs.com/mtv65 which will also have my failures and my exploration. This blog on blogger.com will be kept cleaner and will in time contain mostly those works that I will put out for sale.

Trine

This last week I've been practicing sketching with a pencil. i find that very good for practicing shading, shapes and textures. Some day theyw ill be good enough for me to show you. If you're very curious I have posted them here http://www.freewebs.com/mtv65/myartistdiary.htm

Trine

These photos do not properly show these works. One need to see them hanging in a window with light coming through or with reflections in them from a light source. I had fun making them :-)
Trine

This teddy just reminds me of Xmas hanging in the window. The living room lights reflect in the bubble pattern of the art glass I've used. I can't wait to hear what my kids think. I will show these on the exhibition this weekend.

I really think I need to start using gloves. I have small cuts all over my fingertips :-) but it is FUN working with a material which demands something physical. It literally demands blood hehe

And here are the first one. It is done in tiffany style. I also got some proper face shield today. But would you believe it I was so eager just an hour ago and went to the grinder without it and wosj a tiny glass splint flew up in my eye. I think all went well but that shoul teach me ALWAYS USE SAFETY EQUIPTMENT.
The slim curved legs were really hard to cut. The glass kept breaking the wrong way but finally I got it right. Wasted a bit of the blue glass but the final result is worth it, I think.

As you can see there are lots of variations in what you can do with wax and some heat hehe

This is one of the "paintings" I did this weekend using beeswax. Most are nice and bringht and invite to walk in fantasy worlds. This one turned out nasty hehe. Must be Halloween.

Well I finally got some glass work done and here is the result. I'll try to get a photo with light shining through it tomorrow

So sorry, been bedridden for a week and it looks like it will not go away, stuck in chest. So unfortunately no new art for a few days.
Trine

This is a unfinished portrait I made in my first classes in portrait painting by using model. The artist teaching was Per Lundgren, a student of among others Odd Nerdrum, a famous Norwegian artist.

I will not take credit for it alone because quite a bit is done by the teacher when showing us how to do things, but I thought I would share it with you anyway :-) I do not yet know whether I will work much with portraits but the techniques can be used in other kinds of paintings. I learnt a lot but it was exhausting.


Trine

I have to enjoy my students' work instead, their texts both in English and Norwegian. Many nice poems in the stack today :-).

Well I'll show you one of my earlier work instead :-)

This one I made about 2 weeks ago. It is on a hexagon canvas with painted sides so it does not need a frame. I believe it will do well on the exhibition next month.

Being a mum is hard when you get a call saying your son is admitted to hospital with breathing problems after being hit in the chest. No matter how old or how big or how grown he is, right then he seems very, very small to a tender mum's heart.

Waiting is hard, so very hard when you walk around, to and from, to and from while the seconds last like hours, waiting for more news.
Questions are many, very many when the information is limited and the possible results a mum can vision are way too many.

At last, another call. He is in for x-rays. the mum relaxes a bit. He is in proper care. They work on finding out. X-rays, that does not sound too scary.

Then JOY, he calls himself. He will be all right, no broken bones and he is able to breathe and talk. Then the mum can really think it will be ok and try to bring her shoulders down. But the anxiety still sits in her chest and shoulders and stomach. It will be hours, even maybe days before it is completely gone and her nights will be tormented for a while. Because he sounds so little and she wishes he was at home, with her, so that she could see him, and cuddle him, and pamper him, and make everything all right as she did when he was 5.

Finally, an sms saying he is ok, he will be sent home, to his home far away. And the mum turns to her computer and tries to write away some of the thoughts and anxieties. And share her joy.

It went well this time too.

Mum

I had planned for a combination of mountain area and trees this time but the mountain would not have any competition so It would not let me. The result is here. I really hope you will enjoy this series.

And a bigger one 50x60cm where I more wanted to focus on the colour than the shape of the leaves. I hope you end up having thought about what lays hidden. I had originally planned to have lots of leaves both in the background and one the two trees but like characters tend to take off with the writers, this painting would not allow me that so the trees are bare and there are little detail in the leaves. What do you think? If you create yourself, do your works go their own way?

This is an oil painting I did earlier this week trying to capture both the cold and half bareness of autumn more than the lush colours. I myself like the transparency that having so few leaves on such thin branches create. I hope you like it too. A pity the photograph does not really show how wonderful the sky is and how nice the reflections are.

It is made on a 30x40 canvas box which is painted on all sides so I can be hung without framing if someone should want that.

I'd better show what I made in oils yesterday as well. This is oil on a hexagon canvas box. None have seen these hexagon canvases, which I bought in UK this summer , here in Norway so I'd love to show them off at the November exhibition. This is the first in a series of Blue winter oil paintings I plan to make. It is stunning in real life. Reflections on the wet paint and taking it last night without natural light makes the photo not show it off properly, but here it is. each side is 10" or 25,4 cm. Enjoy

I made a very simple light catcher just to try out different kinds of transparent glue. It is not very good at close up but WOW it makes me smile when the ligh goes through it. I used only scrap ieces of artistic glas on this one. recycling you know :-)

I have been playing with glueing glass mosaic on boxes and glass objects. It is sort of recycling stuff which is very nice. The boxes were leftovers from my kids craft projects years ago and the glass bowl one that was from my youth that my mum put away on a major clering out of old stuff. I'll need I see to add a rim to the glass bowl and add some grouse to the edge of the lid of the multisided black and white box. Will keep you posted. I plan on using the glass bowl when finished for candy on the next exhibition in November and the blue and white hexagon one for my cards. No one im my area works with mosaics or glass except for painting on glass so I'd like to brin some objects just to show that playing with glass and mosaics is also an option for craft interested people.

Well I finally felt confident after the "animal" to really try out varied shapes and here is the result. i am very happy about the brick pattern for the sky. As you can see I combine brick patterns with basically using the squares diagonally for the mountain and more free forms for the trees. next I will show you it used on objects.

After the failure with the mosaic flowers, I wanted to try to make something very non geometrical and serched the net for patterns. Founds loads but they all had thousands of pieces. I then thought about crochet patterns which use limited squares and serched again and printed out some which looked very small. LOL when counting them out they too had way too many pieces even it I had cut every glass tile square up into 4. So I just started playing around and voila and animal appeared. My mum kept calling it "the cat" but as you can see this is more like some kind of australian desert rat related to kangarooes or something. What should I call it. All in all I was fairly happy with it.

Just started. I got a newslatter talking about "A painting a day" and thought I might have a go, just change it to some art work a day.

This is what I did today, First step of my first mosaic.

Trine