Showing posts with label skiing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skiing. Show all posts

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Pink Bird Ski Flying watercolours on paper 20x30cm

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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Pink Bird Ski Flying v2 watercolours on paper 20x30cm
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012



Blue Bird Sees Stars Skiing watercolours on paper 20x30cm

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Saturday, February 04, 2012

Pink Bird Head Down after Skiing
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Pink Bird Fallen on Face Skiing watercolours on paper 20x30cm
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

I have been so happy today. Since Sunday I have strugled with an inflammed elbow which has been very very painful. Today it is much better and I have been singing all day in the joy of this. Hopefully Pink Bird too will recover quickly.
Pink Bird Losing Control Skiing watercolours on paper ca 18x20cm
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Below you can see the painting with a red mount just put above it in the painting table. As you can see it will look great with a colourful mount or frame.









Monday, January 30, 2012

I wish this was me. Struggling with an inflammed and VERY PAINFUL ELBOW TODAY :-(

Pink Bird Before Falling watercolours 20x30cm

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

These days we have the X-games and locally we had quite a bit of snow this weekend so I have worked on a series of paintings showing pink bird on skies and snowboard. They will be posted one by one the coming week.
Pink Bird in the Air while Skiing
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Below is the initial sketch and the painting shown in a red mount






Sunday, March 21, 2010

Posting yesterday I posted only the bare numbers. The longer story is more about the pebbles in my way. There is a famours quote about it being the pebbles and not the mountains that makes us stumble and fall.

I had several of them yesterday so the victory was not that much the minutes but that I got them done.

LOL it started with me putting skies and poles into the car to drive to work for the ski shoes that I was to borrow. I could not find the ski poles which is either at my friends house 40 minutes drive away or at the Alpine center the school visited last Tuesday. Not giving in a packed one pair too small and one too long. After fetching the modern two layer shoes I drove to the ski tracks. I put on shoes and was ready to put on the skies. Then I realized that I had managed to bring with me and old pair with totally different bindings. Back home for the right skies. Coming back again I got the shoes into the bindings but they kept dropping off as soon as I kicked back. Fortunately my collegue had also given me the option of an old pair of shoes and they fit the bindings. The snow was so not the perfect kind or rather my skies did not have the perfect coating/lubrication underneath so I got kind of more than a workout than I had planned. The story did not end there. The inside sole of one of these old shoes had a standing up ridge in the middle. In the beginning I kept trying to straighten out my socks but it kept feeling wrong under my foot, then I found out what the problem was on my last 25 minutes skiing. I tried to straighten it out but the only thing to do is to put new soles into them.

When I finished my first skiing 30 minutes I ended up being caught up in a conversation by the car that I could not get out of politely so I had to stand there watching more and more of the few minutes left of the gym opening hours dwindling away. Stressed by this I hurried to get out of my skies and used my left foot to loosen up the bindings of my right foot. Wooops the ski took off, my feet went high up in the air and so did I before I landed on my back with a thud. Forunately there was some snow there to break my fall so all I got was a couple of minor bruises.

When I changed from my gym shoes back to the wollen socks and ski shoes after the rowing I realized why my little toe had been complaining lately. 4/5 of the nail hang in a bloody tread. I got some band aid and kept doing what I had planned. Now I was extra happy that the borrowed ski shoes were one size too big. ;-)

The point of telling all this is not to moan or to say poor me because I never felt that yesterday, just to say that I am proud that I did not quit, even though there were quite a few pebbles on my road towards fulfilling my plan of Trine's Triathlon yesterday. Conquering those pebbles which each could have tempted me to go home was the true victory yesterday.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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Had the choice of 3 different workouts today. at least. Cross country skiing, going to the gym and walking. Like Winnie the Pooh I do not like having to choose hehehe so I decided to do a Trine Special Winter Triathlon and I did.
*30 min cross country skiing (change into indoor shoes and a quick drive down to the gym)
* 20 min of rowing, 3500m (change back into wollen socks and back to the ski tracks) (gym closed early so no time for more)
* stretching
* 30 min of cross country skiing
* Stretching
* 30 min of walking
*25 min of cross country skiing
*Stretching
* 30 min walking (met a friend just starting her exercise so joined her)
* 30 min of walking

Total: 1h25min cross country skiing, 20 min rowing, 1h30min of walking.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010


Blue Bird - Downhill II ACEO
watercolour
2.5x3.5in
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Monday, March 15, 2010

I still struggle with going downhill, in fact I do find it kind of scary. So does Blue Bird Today.

Blue Bird - Downhill I ACEO
watercolour
2.5x3.5in
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

As planned the whole school moved up to the near Alpine center today at Gautefall. I went cross country skiing myself all day, The first time in many years that I have done that for any length. Very sore now naturally.
In between skiing and sloloming the students enjoyed the wonderful weather, built a fire and grilled sausages.

Me, I kept to the flat tracks today. More challenging uphill and downhill slopes will have to wait for another time.

Also went for an hour's walking when I came home to try to avoid some of that stiffness.



Very happy about myself. The prepaid meal for us teachers went well too. A former student manned the kitchen and skipped the frites and made me a full plate of salat to go with the Leafsteak (kind of like a flat hamburger)instead. When home I have had boiled fish and shredded carrot. I have saved my carbs and might (not decided yet) spend them on a couple of small chocolate pieces to celebrate my skiing LOL.

Sunday, March 07, 2010

We had a fantastic weather today and many were out cross country skiing. Even me, even though I had to stop after 30 minutes due to each step being painful on my toes. As I said I could not get any new style skiing shoes so I used a loaned pair of old fashioned ones and that did not work well. I did however really enjoy my time outdoors.

I did however stay outdoors and walked for another hour and half in the snow on foot making sure I kept my arms moving too. My lower body told me when I was done that it had gotten a good workout so I am satisfied.
















Saturday, March 06, 2010








Pink Bird Biathlon ACEO

watercolour

2.5x3.5in

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Since my headache with the blurred vision have kept me hiding in dark corners for 3 days, I was very happy today that I managed 2 hours of walking in the snow today. Very much not motivated for the Gym in the cold but fantastically beautiful weather we have at the moment. Nearly minus 20 C at night but during the day when the sun has worked its magic some hours it is lovely to be active outdoors.

I tried to get quite a bit of incline and decline walking in and I could really feel it afterwards so walking in snow gives an extra challenge for assorted joints and bodyparts.

Walking there I enjoy watching the talented young persons practizing their biatlon skills. Maybe they will make Norway proud at the Olympics in 8 years? One can hope. Today's posted Pink Bird Painting is in honour of the women skiiers.

In Norway we have had a lot of controversy this week when the New Big Jump in Nolmenkollen opened and a man sneakily took some of the glory of the first official jumper who was to be a women.

Unfortunately the local sports shop does not have my size in the modern cross country skiing shoes so I have had to borrow a pair of the old fashioned ones from a collegue and will try tomorrow to see whether my joints will allow me to do some cross country skiiing. You know he ones with 3 holes in the sole LOL. Tuesday will be a whole day outdoors up at the nearest alpine center for the whole school.

It is a shame after tiny Norway with its tiny population (pr. 1.1.2010: 4 858 200 ) did so well at the Winter Olympic NOT to do some skiing sports so that is my challenge for the week. LOL. Had to brag a bit. . . .

Saturday, February 27, 2010



Blue Bird - Ski Accident, ACEO,
watercolours
2.5x3.5in
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Friday, February 26, 2010





Blue Bird Men's Freestyle Skiing Aerials I, ACEO,
watercolour
2.5x3.5in
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Astma made my life challenging today, but hopefully tomorrow I will once more be fit for exploring more of Prague. One of the artists whose works are seen everywhere is Alphonse Mocha which ahs inspired a couple of works of mine. Here are some sketches.

Thursday, February 18, 2010


Pink Bird Women's Freestyle Skiing Aerials II ACEO
watercolour
2.5x3.5in
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Monday, February 15, 2010

I started my day with a lovely outdor walk as a warm up for the Neck and Back Training group I attend Monday and Friday mornings. The training went well.

I as most people I think end up watching quite a bit of the Olympic Games. Here is one of the ACEOs I got inspired to make.


Blue Bird - Skiing - The Fall ACEO
watercolour
2.5x3.5inches
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Saturday, March 08, 2008

Last Tuesday the whole school, Drangedal Ungdomsskole ( DUS) where I work, went to Gautefall Alpine Center to ski, snowboard or any other activity that pleased us in the fantastic weather. This is something we do every year around this time. This year we were so lucky with the weather as you can see and had a lovely day.















I also have some paintings displayed at a combined exhibition hall and shop there. I used the opportunity to change them a bit. Here is the manager Bodil Gautefall with 3 of my paintings.

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