An Art Work A Day

Would you believe it - I won the wine lottery at work again. LOL I do need to invite somefriends because I just keep adding to my stored wine.

Blue Eyed Charmer Cat,
watercolours on paper
21x30cm
$75
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Glide,
watercolours on paper
21x30cm
$35
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Brothers Playing II,
watercolours on paper
21x30cm
$55
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Mammapus (= Momkitty) up on the mountain above my house



The shapes of nature are amazing, don't you agree?



Have you ever looked closely at a young pine in spring?

Still playing around with ink and watercolours and the animal world :-).

Curled up cat I,

ink and watercolours on paper

21x30cm

$65

Curled up cat II,

ink and watercolours on paper

21x30cm

$65

Today is the Twentyeigth day of the August challenge

Tribute To a Beautiful Earth
Celebrating and Conserving Our Planet with DailyPainters.com

and I present a simple oriental art ink painting.

Today is the Twentyfourth day of the August challenge

Tribute To a Beautiful Earth
Celebrating and Conserving Our Planet with DailyPainters.com

and today I give you an ink painting of a bird mum bringing food for her chicks. If for no other reason, our maternal instincts should lead us into preserving our planet and tidying up after earlier mistakes or abuse of our natural resourses. I chose to have the nest hidden and I really believe that the wise animals keep their offspring away from any human beings - in general we ruin things for them.

Today is the Thirteenth day of the August challenge

Tribute To a Beautiful Earth
Celebrating and Conserving Our Planet with DailyPainters.com

Today's painting is inspired by a question which is used by many in many different settings, lots of them philosopical and methaphorical.

The use of ink on rice paper as well as the choice of a philosopical theme is is honor of the Olympics in Beijing.






How Tall Does a Tree Grow?
ink on rice paper
24x33cm
$58


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Question: How tall does a tree grow?

Answer: As tall as it's environment allows

Solution: Save the environment

There are many wise ways to use this image in connection with self-growth: if we don't feel as if we're growing, one way to kick growth is that we can change our environment, get out of our comfort zones and see what will happen.

"How tall does a tree grow?" "As tall as it can, " answers Jim Rohn.

Another interesting thing about threes that all the "you can be a success-guys" seem to forget is that it knows when to stop and maybe even when to shed it leaves and take a winter's break from growing.

I wish you all a life as the best trees you can be. Trine

Today is the Eleventh day of the August challenge

Tribute To a Beautiful Earth
Celebrating and Conserving Our Planet with DailyPainters.com
and I continue by painting birds in chinese brush painting style.

Herons with Cattailweed,
ink on paper
SOLD

Today I watched the opening seremony of the Olympic games in Beijing. I therefore brought out my ink stone and ink stick and my chinese brushes as well as rice paper. It has been a while since I used these technique so I definately need to practice a bit before my brush work is as I would like it.

Insects are both a pest as well as something that all of nature depends on. I therefore find it a very suitable subject matter for this challenge.

OLympic Mantis,

ink on rice paper

16x24cm

nfs, needs mounting first, if you want it unmounted then please contact me.
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Yepp, for those of you wondering, I am hooked on insects at the moment.

This one is painted using an amazing photo made by Steen Heilesen as a reference to practice the posture. He was kind enough to allow me the use of his mantis as models untill my own grow up.
Here is the link to the photo. http://www.flickr.com/photos/steenheilesen/193123523/


Mantis Practice 3,
ink on rice paper
17x23cm
$15
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As you can see I have been practicing insects today. I am happy to inform you that I have had a bit extra interest in my ink paintings on different kinds of paper lately and have made a nice parcel ready for shipping tomorrow. And Dragonfly practice 2 as well as mantis practice 2, a rat in ink on imitaiton silk and “Italian Alps 1”, “Flowers” on the very absorbent paper, “Chinese Mountain 1” and “Trees by the Lake” will be on their way to NC.

Dragonfly practice 2,
watercolour and ink on rice paper
17x24cm
SOLD to CA, USA
Dragonfly practice 3 (3 smaller on one paper)
17x24cm
SOLD to NC, USA


Bad first sketch
Dragonfly practice 1
This is one of the things I focus on lately. I am so exited and can't wait for this cocoon with chinese praying mantises to hatch. Hopefully it will happen tomorrow night or Thursday and during the day so that I can watch.

Today I set up my living room table with all my chinese brush painting paraphenalia. My goal for the weekend is to practice insects. Here are my first tries in quite a while.

This one I think ended up fairly OK - I liked the autumn feel of it.

Praying Mantis in brown Leaves,

watercolours on ricepaper

17x24cm

$20

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Below is the same painting in a green mount to show you how it could look if we used only a portion of it. It looked quite nice in my opinion. This was a new brand of rice paper and this far I am hapy with the quality.

This is one I was not happy about but nevertheless it was good practice as how the colours act with the paper..

Praying Mantis in Green Leaves, watercolours on rice paper

17x24cm

This is a print of a drawing my very talented collegue Ottar Flated did as a 10 minute demonstration for the students of my class. I so wish I could draw like him.

Today I have been so very busy with school work so I have not found any time to paint. The work posted today is one I painted on imitation silk during the Exhibition last December.


Crabs in Seaweed,


ink on imitation silk