30.3. 2013 Egg surprise A4

30.3.2013 Egg surprise A4 not for sale NODP

29.3.2013 No Way - acrylics on paper A4

Sometimes we just have to defent ourself and say stop to people that are misusing us.

29.3.2013 No Way - acrylics on paper A4 $50 Free SH

28.3.2013 Fear of Falling - acrylics on paper 32x41cm

28.3.2013 Fear of Falling - acrylics on paper 32x41cm $120 Free SH

27.3.2013 Easter Chick Jumping Rope - 21x30cm

Happy Easter everyone

27.3.2013 Easter Chick Jumping Rope  -  21x30cm $50 Free SH

26.3.2013 Happiness in Learning - akrylics on paper 32x41cm

I have been so happy learning new things lately which I will tell you more about later :-).

 

26.3.2013 Happiness in Learning - akrylics on paper 32x41cm

22.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Flying High - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

22.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Flying High  - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

21.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Forbidden - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

May love in most variations win.
 

 21.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Forbidden - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

20.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Coming Home - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

High up in the nest of love the baby chick wait for mum to come home. 

20.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Coming Home - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

19.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Found Online - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

In these modern times so many things have moved from the physical world and online - meeting someone too has for quite a few. 

19.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Found Online - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

18.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Surfing the Waves of Emotion - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

Love is such a wonderful word because it can be used in so many ways and in connetion with so many things in addition to romantic love.

Today I am surfing the lovely happy waves created by my love of learning as I have joined a class and started studying something new and very interesting (se below for details). My feeling are in some ways fairly close to being in love even though it is not to a person. 

18.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Surfing the Waves of Emotion - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH


Course info: Dan Ariely is a The New York Times bestseller, a Duke University professor and his TED talk has been watched over 2 million times. His highly anticipated "Irrational Behavior" Coursera course starts soon: http://bit.ly/WyIUtv

17.3.2013 Sometimes Love Divides - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

17.3.2013 Sometimes Love Divides - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 FREE SH

16.3.2013 Sometimes Love is a Bit of a Drag - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

Conflicts and quarrells with close ones are the worst kind, those persons are the ones most capable of hurting us with their words and actions and they are the ones that most of all reduce us to the most childish behaviours. They are the ones we keep repeating old patterns with so that we nearly know all the scenes and lines by heart but still play them through even if we now we will not win this time either. And yet we know that life has to go on and the connetion too. Tomorrow and next week or month or year we will still be in the same relationship - still dearly love each other. In short, love means that we carry along some history with good parts as well as burdens.

16.3.2013 Sometimes Love is a Bit of a Drag - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 FREE SH

15.3.2013 Sometimes Love is a Light Load When Carried Together - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

It is said that it takes a whole village to raise a child and also it is cynically said that a mother can support ten children but ten children cannot support a mother. The common thread in these sayings is that love and care is best done as a thing done together both to complement each other but also to share responsibilities and sometimes the burdens that loving someone may also bring.

15.3.2013 Sometimes Love is a Light Load When Carried Together - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 FREE SH

14.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Upside Down - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

14.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Upside Down  - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 FREE SH

13.3.2013 Sometimes Love Takes you Higher Up - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

About a week ago I met a former student of mine at the grocery store. He was there with his baby and girlfriend and I was so happy to get to know that he was happy, had a family and a job. Today I met another former student who has had a small break due to not getting into the study he wanted this autumn. He had now started in a job while applying for a study place the coming autumn. That too warmed a former teacher’s heart because of course we worry when we hear bad news in connection with students that over 3 years time naturally each carved a special place in our hearts.

13.3.2013 Sometimes Love Takes you Higher Up - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 FREE SH 

12.3.2013 Sometimes Love Means Coming Out - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

In connection with a March 8th concert Kim Friele one of the most important fighters here in Norway for Gay rights especially in the early years, held a speach. As a teacher I am so happy to know that life has become so much easier for the young persons finding out that they belong to a minority in when it comes to whom they fall in love with. This one is for you.

12.3.2013 Sometimes Love Means Coming Out - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

11.3.2013 Sometimes Love is a Puzzle - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

What makes us love a person either as a friend, a partner or a mamber of our group is incredibly complicated, fortunately, and that means that most of us are able to find people to love and be loved by. How it works is sometimes a mystery - a wonderful mystery.

Another wonderful thing is that we seem to have an unlimeted supply of love which is good for us teachers that keep getting new students and in a short time we dearly love a new group of 30 individuals.

11.3.2013 Sometimes Love is a Puzzle - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

10.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Sad - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

Love can bring us the biggest happiness but also be what crushes us. Loving someone who is loving you back is wonderful but that same love has an equal power to hurt us if that person disappoints us, hurt us or worst of all leaves us. But even though love also brings some sadness, we do need to keep loving each other as lovers, friends and family. Hugs from me. 

10.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Sad - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

9.3.2013 Sometimes Love is a Glass of Red Wine - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

Loving yourself is also important on a Saturday when you share a Saturday with your cats and a good book :-).  

 9.3.2013 Sometimes Love is a Glass of Red Wine - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

8.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Doing It Together - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

Today, the 8th of March - The International Women's Day I want to celebrate what women can do working together. There is still a few very important things to left to fight for or against like FGM, childbrides, forced marriages, and the feat...uscide or infanticide in areas where only boychildren has any value. Let's work together for our sisters around the world. 

8.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Doing It Together - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

 

7.2.2013 Sometimes Love is Light and Plentiful - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

The best thing about being a teacher is all the young persons we get to meet and love.

 7.2.2013 Sometimes Love is Light and Plentiful - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $40 Free SH

6.3.2013 Sometimes Love Makes you Feel High Up - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

Today after having had the parent teacher conferences where the love and care we all feel for the young persons is the common denominator for everything in the talks, I feel quite high. Such wonderful teenagers and such wonderful parents. 

6.3.2013 Sometimes Love Makes you Feel High Up - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

5.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Not Letting Go - watercolor on paper 21x30cm

These days parent teacher conferences is the big thing at my work. One of the important things when working with people is to hang in there. Both the students have to keep working, hanging in there, but also us teachers and parents have to... keep encouraging, motivating, believing in the teenagers no matter what and most of all loving them. That is not always easy for parents or for teachers when the hormons run at the highest and they struggle to find themselves and all the rest that goes with moving from being a child towards adulthood. Some days just hanging in there is all we all manage, and maybe that is enough :-)  

 

5.3.2013 Sometimes Love is Not Letting Go - watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

These days the birds have started serenading and doing the spring clean up of the nests. How do I know? Some males sing very much in the morning and my cats have brought in the first sample of a bird nest's flea. :-)

Nå begynner våren å få... tak. Et par hannfugler synger som gale om morgenen og vårrengjøringen av reir har begynt. Det vet jeg fordi katten har dratt inn den første fugleloppa.
 

4.2.2013 Sometimes Love is Cut into Trees - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

2.3.2013 Bright Light in Winter Landscape - watercolor on paper 24x32cm SOLD

2.3.2013 Bright Light in Winter Landscape - watercolor on paper 24x32cm SOLD
This one sold within the hour of posting it on facebook last night.

3.2013 Sometimes Love is a Social Thing - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm

I am working as a teacher for 12-16 year olds and now that spring is coming there is a lot of love starting to grow. At that age love is not only a very personal thing but a social thing, especially in some girl groups who discuss every aspect of the relationships starting or ending or possibly becoming. What he said and she said and did and how to make him see her etc not to mention if two girls wants the same boy or one steals one... Lots of thoughts and emotions and time being put into it.
 

3.2013 Sometimes Love is a Social Thing - Watercolor on paper 21x30cm $100 Free SH

1.3.2013 Dreams of the North I - Watercolor on paper 24x32cm

Yesterday after looking at some photos from my journey up North last year I simply had to do a landscape. 

1.3.2013 Dreams of the North I - Watercolor on paper 24x32cm $100 Free SH