Young Green Bird 22.07.16, oil pastel 203mmx288mm

Young Green Bird 22.07.16, oil pastel 203mmx288mm

Just trying to cheer myself up while struggling with a summer cold.

43-2016 On the Run - encaustic art 10.4x14.6cm

43-2016 On the Run
encaustic art 10.4x14.6cm
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42-2016 Save Me - encaustic art 10.4x14.6cm

It has been a long time since I played with vax in my art. I am very happy to be back to using this amazing medium. Here in Europe it is a big issue with all the people fleeing war and drowning in the mediterranean.  

42-2016 Save Me
encaustic art 10.4x14.6cm
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21 -2016 - Turbulence of the Mind Blinds - oil on canvas board 18x24cm

21 -2016 - Turbulence of the Mind Blinds - oil on canvas board 18x24cm
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17-2016 Running Cat - oil on paper 20x28cm

 Sometimes a girl just has to have some fun while painting.

 


17-2016 Running Cat
oil on paper 20x28cm
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40-2016 Kiss on the Forhead - oil on paper 20x28cm

40-2016 Kiss on the Forhead
oil on paper 20x28cm
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37-2016 Abstract Plants in red colors -oil on paper 20x28cm

37-2016 Abstract Plants in red colors
oil on paper 20x28cm
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37-2016 The Year It Happened -oil on paper 20x28cm

Every person, country, organisation, cause has its important dates and years. This is my abstract idea of such a year.

37-2016 The Year It Happened
oil on paper 20x28cm
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36-2016 Ancient Eye - oil on paper 20x28cm

36-2016 Ancient Eye
oil on paper 20x28cm
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35-2016 - Queing of the Ghosts Soon to Be - oil on canvas board 18x24cm

35-2016 - Queing of the Ghosts Soon to Be
oil on canvas board 18x24cm
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34-2016 Warm Landscape No 2 - oil on canvasboard 24x30cm

34-2016 Warm Landscape No 2
oil on canvasboard 24x30cm
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33-2016 Warm Landscape - oil on canvasboard 24x30cm

33-2016 Warm Landscape
oil on canvasboard 24x30cm
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I just needed to work with warm colours today.

29-2016 Smokesignals from earlier days - oil on paper 32x41cm

29-2016 Smokesignals from earlier days
oil on paper 32x41cm
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32-2016 Waiting with Bent Heads - oil on paper 20x28cm

32-2016 Waiting with Bent Heads
oil on paper 20x28cm
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31-2016 Generations of Women's Sorrows - oil on paper 20x28cm

I am a teacher and these days we do the litterary period Realism and the play wright Henrik Ibsen and his play "A Doll's House" which is about the situation for women. In this story the main charachter Nora leaves her husband in the end. The coming days I will be posting various abstract paintings under the theme: "Struggling women through the times". The difficult task at hand is to express something through only hints because I do not want to tell the whole story - I want the viewers to do that.

31-2016 Generations of Women's Sorrows
oil on paper 20x28cm
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Here an example of how it can look in a red mount.

30-2016 Talking Over Her Head - oil on paper 20x28cm

30-2016 Talking Over Her Head
oil on paper 20x28cm
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28-2016 Drowning oil on paper 32x41cm

28-2016 Drowning
oil on paper 32x41cm
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27-2016 Leave Me Alone - NOT - acrylics on paper 32x41cm SOLD

To express complex life situations and emotions is difficult but something I keep trying to do. Sometimes life makes us afraid or anxious and we want to curl inside ourselves and hide from it all, maybe most of all from what we feel. At that same time we want to be left alone and yet at the same time desperately want to be seen and NOT left alone. How to visualize that knotty feeling?

27-2016 Leave Me Alone - NOT
acrylics on paper 32x41cm
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24-2016 Quiet Sorrow - oil on paper 20x28cm

I love it when I manage to create a painting that is expressionistic, as simplefied as possible, abstract, roughly painted which at the same time captures strong emotions. I feel that means that each viewer is totally free to make up the story connected with the emotion themselves. Who is this man? What has happened to him? What are his challenges in life? I'd love to hear your stories.

24-2016 Quiet Sorrow
oil on paper 20x28cm
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This painting can be mounted and framed several ways, either in portrait or landscape style.

  

  

23-2016 Sky in blue and white - oil on canvasboard 24x30cm

23-2016 Sky in blue and white
oil on canvasboard 24x30cm
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22-2016 Simple Seascape no 4-2016 - oil on canvasboard 24x30cm

Very cold here now in Norway so much of my days after work and training is filling my wooden stove. Sorry about how the blitz have made some "sparcles" in the right corner.

22-2016 Simple Seascape no 4-2016
oil on canvasboard 24x30cm
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20-2016 The Chick - oil on paper 20x28cm

Today I fooled around playing with the painting knife and some warm colors. Here is the result.

20-2016 The Chick -
oil on paper 20x28cm
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15-2016 Racing Downhill - oil on paper 20x28cm

Etter treninga med Synnøve Hjermstad Tørnes på fredagsmorgen på Pro Sport Support Treningssenter var jeg så gira de første timene at jeg nesten ikke kunne stå stille eller sette meg. hehehe. I dag er det stølheta jeg kjenner når jeg setter meg og reiser meg.

After my training Friday I was totally wired. Today it is the soreness that I feel sitting down LOL

Kettlebell – swing lett vekt 5 kg	- 2-3 sett av 10 -	Kettlebell – swing tung vekt 8 kg
Knebøy med vekt (squat)	- 3 sett av 10 -	skulderpress
Utfall (lounge)	- 3 sett av 10 -	biceps
Tåhev med vekter	- 3 sett av 10 -	sidehev
Dobbel knebøy m/arm frem	- 3 sett av 10 -	roing (row)
Skulderhev med vekter	- 3 sett av 10 -	tricepspress
Bikkja frem-bak	- 3 sett av 10 – (hipthrust) Hofteløft med kettlebell	Kne side til side
Benløft en-og-en
Benløft - samlet

15-2016 Racing Downhill 
oil on paper 20x28cm
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19-2016 - In the Blue Storm - oil on canvas board 18x24cm

19-2016 - In the Blue Storm
oil on canvas board 18x24cm
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18-2016 - Walk in Blue Tunnel - oil on canvas board 18x24cm

Lately I have been experimenting using only thin layers of oil paint instead of layers totally covering the canvas. I kind of like the different effect. Some other day I might shovel the paint on using painting knives. I go where my muse takes me.



18-2016 - Walk in Blue Tunnel -
oil on canvas board 18x24cm
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16-2016 Look, a Flower for You - abstract oil on paper 20x28cm

I have an invitation to join the debate on attractions and science in connection with Valentine's Day. I very much look forward to it. https://www.facebook.com/C2ST1/videos/987053601340856/?pnref=story

It is therefore suitable to post this painting today, I think. One of my For Fun paintings.

16-2016 Look, a Flower for You -
abstract oil on paper 20x28cm
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14-2016 Walking Deep in Thought - abstract oil on paper 20x28cm

I have been organizing better som of my older paintings and I realize that I maybe like the most the very abstract ones - the ones that express emotions. As for style, I love rough shapes where there is no painting within the lines. Just a couple of weeks ago a lady contacted me wanting to use one of my very simplefied paintings for a conference. That gave me new confidence to believe my very naivistic paintings also have a purpose even though they might look very badly painted along the more realistic paintings on my online gallery.

Today's painting is one where a figure is walking so deep in thought that the landscape is totally dimmed. He is obviously kind of lost not only in thought but maybe a bit in life at this captured moment. By making this painting with so little detail, kind of empty, I hope to capture this lost feeling. I hope you like it.

14-2016 Walking Deep in Thought -
abstract oil painting on paper 20x28cm
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Sometimes I play around with how it would look in a colored frame in the same tones as the painting. Here I have put a simple mount on top to show you what I mean.

5-2016 - Seascape no2 in Blue - oil on canvas board 18x24cm

5-2016 - Seascape no2 in Blue -
oil on canvas board 18x24cm
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7-2016 - Seascape no 3 in Blue - oil on canvas board 18x24cm

7-2016 - Seascape no 3 in Blue -
oil on canvas board 18x24cm
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13 - 2016 Angry Owl - Graphite sketch 21x30cm

Doing a bit of a clean up I found some of my load of graphites so naturally I fooled around with them. (the shinier parts is due to the blitz)

13 - 2016 Angry Owl - Graphite sketch 21x30cm
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Even a simple sketch looks quite good as soon as a mount and simple frame is added.

My new toy

3-2016 - Seed of Life in Blue - oil on canvas board 24x30cm

3-2016 - Seed of Life in Blue
oil on canvas board 24x30cm
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12-2016 - Young Abstract Blue Owl - oil on paper 20x28cm

12-2016 - Young Abstract Blue Owl - oil on paper 20x28cm
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11-2016 - Blue Snowy Landscape - oil on canvas board 24x30cm

Brrrr It is cold nowadays in Norway. But I love the blue colours of winter.

Fryser for tiden. Ikke glad i kulda, men jeg synes de blå vinterfargene er fine.

11-2016 - Blue Snowy Landscape - oil on canvas board 24x30cm
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I have had a good start healthwise in 2016 with today being my fourth day in a row with organized exercise - 2 x strength in the gym and 2 x aerobic. Tomorrow will be restitution day.

6-2016 - Sunset in Warm Colors no 1 - oil on canvas board 18x24cm

This week it is sooo cold here, and I struggle to get my house from 1950s which is basically uninsulated warm. Playing with warm colours do help a bit :-).

 

6-2016 - Sunset in Warm Colors no 1 - oil on canvas board 18x24cm

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10-2016 - Sad Abstract Blue Owl - oil on paper 20x28cm

Just fooling around playing with abstract shapes of owls.

10-2016 - Sad Abstract Blue Owl - oil on paper 20x28cm
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9-2016 - Blue Owl in Tears - oil on paper 21x30cm

9-2016 - Blue Owl in Tears - oil on watercolor paper 21x30cm

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I am very happy to be able to play with paint again like with this one. 

2-2016 Seascape no 1-2016 - oil 24x30cm

2-2016 Seascape no 1-2016 - oil 24x30cm
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(sorry about "glittery parts" that is the blitz)

4-2016 - Birches in Blue - oil 18x23cm

4-2016 - Birches in Blue - oil 18x23cm
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(needs some drying first)

Landscape with Tree no 1-2016 - oil, 30x40cm

Landscape in oil no 1-2016 - 30x40cm

Finally I am painting again and in oils. LOL I had forgot how messy it is and how difficult it is to photograph a wet painting and get the colors right. I will try again tomorrow in natural light because this version is too dim.

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