An Art Work A Day

As life moves on, friends, collegues or lovers sometimes moves in different directions or they grow closer.

I am so happy that I am paired up with a lovely lady for my socalled Contact teacher's duties. That is what the class' teachers are called. We have grown closer so we do not have to spend a lot time to be sure we move in the same directions. We know our long term visions for our class are the same.

Part of moving on is also to break free or split up, and being a mum of a son just 19 and a daughter just turned 20 makes that too an issue very much on my mind some day. At the same time, them moving apart into their adult life we might grow closer again but then more as two equals. My daughter is visiting tomorrow evening for a mother-daughter icecream and Desperate housewives night LOL

In just a few months, class 10B will be graduating, standing there in their finery, maybe even in their Bunads and I will give them the diploma and there will be speaches and I will be a bit weepy I think, and very much hope that life will treat each and every one of the well. 3 years is quite some time.

Tomorrow we will start the parent teacher conferences and I am very happy to be able to tell most of both the students and the parents how well each is doing compared to abilities. Preparing for this meeting has been very hectic though and I long for the easter holidays so that I can paint and paint.

Growing Apart or Growing Together,
acrylics on canvas panel
18x24cm
$100

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After having posted an emotional semiabstract it felt right to post a nicer painting for those of my viewers needing that today. Yesterday I posted and commented on the mountain symbolisms. I think we sometimes need to look past the mountain top as well and not only focus on reaching any top. Maybe there is calm and warmth and a good life to be had without being part of the fight to become King or Queen of the Hill?


Looking Past the Mountain Top,
medium: oil on canvas panel
size: 24x30cm
$100

Finally my arm is good enough for me to feel comfortable painting again. Getting started again is somewhat hard so I'll probably not challenge myself very much with new subjects that much. Well, anyway, that is what I think will happen but LOL my experience on this roller coaster journey of mine into art is that nothing is for sure. Usually I end up doing something else than what I planned. So I have decided to just hang on and enjoy the ride.



















Waiting for Spring to Colour the Land
Oil on preprimed artist canvas panel 24x30cm
$100 p&p worldwide

Making this oil painting I wanted most of all to get my hands on brushes and the smell of oil paint and thinner into my nostrils. Both my kinds are away tonight so I won't disturb any of them with the smell. One thing though is very new in this painting. I only very rarely use browns and except for the sky and the water this is all in browns. The reason; here in Norway spring is arriving slowly and the birds are singing and some bushes show sighs of them being ready to burst into green BUT all in all 99 % of the colours are browns and greys on the ground still with a tiny tussilago farfara here and there on the road side. So this is a spring landscape just waiting to burst into greens again. I might go wild on the greens during Easter LOL