Friday, January 04, 2008
On the 7th of january last year I got in contact with Lori Leidig, an American freelance journalist living in Sweden. That in turn lead to me doing a painting commision for her as well as selling her a couple of other works later. Her liking my work lead in turn to her wanting to interview me. In the end that interview was posted in Teen Trend Magazine autumn 2007. (see images under).
On the 18th of January 2007 I joined the Daily Painters.
Today, about a year later from all this, a journalist from Bergens Tiende the biggest reginal newspaper in Norway, Arild Berg Karlsen, called asking me about the daily painters. LOL when you live in a very small pond it does not take much to get a tad unsettled in such situations hehe. I must admit I think I kind of talked a bit too much too fast. Anyway I think I answered fairly OK. I am very excited, we have been talking a lot lately within the daily painters lately about where dp will go, what it is, and similar topics. This interest from a Norwegian newspaper fits right into what is going on within dp.
Personally this also means a lot. The start of january 2007 gave me the courage to enter the daily painters' challenge and now I am facing year two where I will reduce my day job for a year from august. I have already done the financial reorganizations neccessary. This phone call is to me a signal that it is right for me to take my art one step further in 2008 by being a signal of a fact that things are happening and will happen. Only time will tell how 2008 turn out but I am very happy that this might lead to more Norwegians enjoying dp.
If you click on the images it will get large enough to read
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Seacreatures and jellyfish has intrigued me as a painter for the last two years and I keep coming back to them. I hope you like this painting of a group of them. 
Jellyfish
blue ink on ricepaper
23x34cm
$30 p&p worldwide included
Starting a new year has its great aspects and its scary ones. Starting a new with a whole year in front of you as a huge new canvas where evyerthing can happen is the great part. The sad part when you reach a certain age is that you know that the odds are that things will not change that much - the same battles will have to be fought all over again.
Right now I dread the fact that - yes, you guessed right - the diet and exercise fight with myself starts all over again. "Same procedure as every year, James".
The best part this new year is that my painting has had developed very well in 2007, I have not touched a sigarett all 2007 and there has been less conflicts in people around me that I have been mixed into (one of my resulutions a year ago). Well, Keep visiting my blog and you will get to know how 2008 turns out.
My goals as a painter are many for 2008. No one knows where my artistic journey might take me in the year to come.
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
I have tried so many times to take photos or make sketches of my cats looking at them but for some reason every time I try to capture them they move. In the end I gave up today after quite a few horrible sketches and did this kitten from a reference.
Below is a photo of two of my three cats sleeping during Christmas.
By the way, there is quite a few of my works on ebay these days. 
Kitten 1,
ink on shuen paper
17x17cm
sold and sent to Northern Ireland
Happy New Year
