Red Core, encaustic art 7x9cm

Now I have 2 days off work and that will be lovely. I have quite a few things I want to do - painting and garderning :-)

Red Core,

encaustic art

7x9cm

$18

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Dragonfly practice 2, SOLD watercolour and ink on rice paper 17x24cm

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.

Look Into My Eye, encaustic art 7x9cm

I was so satisfied with how this one turned out. I very much hope that you see what I see. HINT: It is kind of like the illusion images.

Look Into My Eye,

encaustic art (use of melted coloured beeswax)

7x9cm

$30

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I have also kept practising ink painting today and will continue to do so untill I am satisfied with the result.

Mantis Practice 2

Encaustic abstract no 2 April 2008, 7x9cm

This weekend i have enjoyed myself doing both very abstract work in beeswax and trying out ink works with the subject insects and Praying mantis. I hope you nejoy the avriation as much as I did.
Encaustic abstract no 2 April 2008,
7x9cm
$20
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Happy Place, SOLD encaustic art 7x9cm

Today I have been raking the ground outside LOL in between the rain. And also started to plant some flowers indoors. Spring is finally starting to arrive properly and bit by bit we will see the world turn into green again and a rainbow of flowers decorate every garden. I plan on having most of mine in ceramic boxes this year and continue the work on my rock garden.

In addition to this I have done what many of us do when it is raining - I have read and spent time on the computer. When you hear what I did there some of you will think me mad. I have read about stick insects and praying mantis. There are soooo many interesting species. AND . . . I must admit that finding many available on ebay tempted me beyond my will power. LOL some collect expensive shoes or bags - I end up collecting insect species.

This painting is made using melted coloured beeswax and I feel that it very well shows what I would like a happy place to feel like. The painting is much shinier live and the colours brilliant. It is midnight here now and that is not the best time to take photos of shiny objects. I will try to get a better photo tomorrow morning and exchange this one.

Happy Place,

encaustic art

7x9cm

SOLD to CA, USA

Praying Mantis in brown Leaves, watercolours on ricepaper 17x24cm

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.

Interwoven paths of Life, acrylics on canvas panel 24x30cm

No man is an island it is said - we are all interwoven in life. LOL That is especially true if you live in a small place in the country.

Interwoven paths of Life,

acrylics on canvas panel

24x30cm

$60

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Here is the cocoon of the chinese praying mantis. Some day soon there will be a couple fo hundred mantis babies crawling around in my terrarium. I will keep you updated.

One of my stick insects changed skin recently and this is what was left of the old skin.

At the buttom of the ocean SOLD encaustic art 7x9cm

At the buttom of the ocean,

encaustic art

7x9cm

SOLD

Dreaming of Spring, acrylics on canvas panel 18x24cm

We have had a wonderful day with warm sun and even some students turning up in capri throusers or shorts. Thursday we will have rain again. I must admit I have started to dream about the part of spring that means greenery and colours. Everything is still mostly brown and greyish. In the end me and my trusted painting knife splashed out with greens and reds and here is the result.

Dreaming of Spring,

acrylics on canvas panel

18x24cm

$ 30

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Crabs in Seaweed, ink on imitation silk

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

Eastern Granny Farmer, acrylics on canvas panel 18x24cm

Eastern Granny Farmer,

acrylics on canvas panel

18x24cm

$100

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Red and White Abstract - Three Trolls, acrylics on canvas panel 18x24cm

Red and White Abstract - Three Trolls,

acrylics on canvas panel

18x24cm

$100

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Below is a photo to show you the size of the stick insect.

On the Scale, acrylics on canvas panel 18x24cm

These days spring is finally arriving one tiny step at a time here in Norway and many of us flock to the shops to find something thinner to wear. That is when many also start their yearly struggle to make the body thinner as well and their daily or weekly date with the scale.

On the Scale,

acrylics on canvas panel

18x24cm

$100

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High up In the Mountains, acrylics on canvas panel 18x24cm

A collegue of mine recently visited Bergamo in Italy and she as I did last year was totally amazed at the sights of the Alps form the plane. That remembering inspired this painting.

High up In the Mountains,
acrylics on canvas panel
18x24cm
$100 p&p FREE

VIETNAMESISK PINNE, Medauroidea extradentata

VIETNAMESISK PINNE, Medauroidea extradentata
(Earlier knows as Baculum extradentatum) STICK INSECT

Medauroidea extradentata is a very stick-like species with two devil-like horns sprouting from its head. Smaller pointed bumps run along portions of it's thorax. Most specimens have small flanges on the middle set of legs, and minute spikes up and down the legs. They originate from Vietnam. The species is parthenogenetic in most cultures (including mine), so they are all female, but males are fairly common in some cultures. The ova have a salt and pepper appearance, with a black capitulum.

I think I have been hooked - I even consider praying mantises. Here are my lovely ones.

Intwined, acrylics on canvas panel 18x24cm

Today i drove my daughter Hanne home to Skien and we ended visiting the library as well as buying special cat litter sand, a new litter box, special food for aging cats etc etc for the cats and then mum ended up buying herself a terrarium and 5 STICK INSECTS
I will post photos tomorrow. They are adorable

Intwined,
acrylics on canvas panel
18x24cm
$45

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Red Kittie 1, acrylics on canvas panel 18x24cm

Some days girls just wants to have fun. I had fun painting this.

My daughter visited tonight and made chicken tandori for us and we had chocolate ice cream while watching "Desperate Housewives". A real girly night so I think this is a very suitable painting to display tonight. ;-)

Red Kittie 1,

acrylics on canvas panel

18x24cm

Traded with another daily painter, Gretchen Kelly for a nude - I am very satisfied with that trade.

Divided, acrylics on canvas panel 18x24cm

Today the weather started out with sun and all rejoiced but suddenly we got hails coming down - not big ones but nevertheless. . . .

At school we had a visiting author and I must admit I got my interest in haiku poems rekindled so do not be very surpriced if you should suddenly see some newbie tries in that genre here on the blog.

Divided,
acrylics on canvas panel
18x24cm
$100

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Stretching the Wings, acrylics on canvas panel 18x24cm

This weekend has been just great. I have rested, had a visit from my daughter and binged on ACEO on ebay but not on food - The weekend has been in the sign of the carrot hehehe

Stretching the Wings,

acrylics on canvas panel

18x24cm

$100

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Burning, SOLD acrylics on canvas panel 24x30cm

Today has been aday of eating vegetables and relaxing. That means of course painting as well as visiting ebay hehehe. yepp I did give into a couple of tiny temptations. Well, I did not give into the food temptations this week so I quess a bit of reward was due :-). For those of you who wonder. it is art mainly ACEO card I collect ( miniature 2.5x3.5in)

Today's painting I have called "Burning" and depending on your as the viewer's background I imagine you will interprete it differently from other viewers. I wil not give you my interpretation but only say that I was very happy with how the colours and total composition turned out. I hope you will like it too.

Burning,

acrylics on canvas panel

24x30cm

$115

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Culture Evening at the Church in Drangedal April 11th

This Friday Drangedal had it's spring Cultural Evening at Drangedal Church.

The program was a mixture of all kinds of mucical entertainment from the local music school to singers and other musical perfeormers from the area. In addition we were two women displaying our paintings and tho men displaying photos.

First of all here is the program. In the end the minister and I decided we would just say abstract paintings instead of printing all the titles.

My paintings were displayed on both sides right when you enter the main room in the church. Due to the church being on a cultural saving list we could not put as much as 1 nail into the walls so in the end we used bluetack and besides that put the paintings in frames that could stand either in teh window or on the table or a bench. I chose simple silver frames to make them fit in with the way the church was painted.

A look forward from my work into the main area of the church.

And a closer look on my display of abstract figure painting on the table. I also had 3 of my bird paintings in watercolour on that table.

I had 3 works displayed in the window on the other side and two on the wall beside it. They had safetylines to a hook that was there before and that was a good thing because suddenly one of the paintings started to dangle in the air when the bluetack came untacked.

This was also one of the areas that was used for serving coffee and cake during the pause.

Here is a photo of Elvira Oseids paintings which were hung from the gallery as well as on the walls in the left wing. They are all naturalistic so I chose to only show my abstracts

On the right wing side the photos were displayed. The photo is taken after all the visitors had left.

One of the students in my class Fredrik gdynia played Air by Bach. I so love that music.

I thought I had to show myself too. I am not too happy about the photo and it is a bit blurred but that is how it ended. LOL I would also have liked to be a couple of sized smaller myself

Here is one of the singers and a couple of the lovely floral arrangements by Reidun Jacobsen who has also done the lovely drawings on the front of the program as well as decorating teh church and helped hang the photos.