An Art Work A Day

Gone Fishing,  watercolour on paper 20x29cm $50

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.

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

January 12th Tree 2012 - mixed media on paper 32x41cm, $150 Free shipping worldwide. Here also seen with a mount to give an impression on how it might look framed.

Blue mountain landscape 11.jan 2012 - watercolours on paper 15x20cm
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Alphabetproject - D - size A5, watercolours on paper
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Here is a photo of the sky around noon today. I hope to use it as reference for a painting this week

08.01.2012 Painted Sky 1
mixed media - size A5
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Below is the sky today that inpired me

I'll be experimenting a bit this summer sketching so please be patient. The colors will come eventually.

Fantastic top today. Enjoy. We did :-)

Today we took another quite challenging top, Bjønnerknatten, which probably couple be translated into something like The Bear Top. This was partly extra challenging because I was so active yesterday, also the terrain was quite tough. the weather there was a bit too warm and still standing which makes it harder to breath due to too much particles for asthmatics like us in the air.

Yesterday while doing interval training my longest jog was ca 700 m on rugged uneven terrain which I am very happy about. Each week I am able to push myself one step further even though I still carry all those extra kilos still. I just decided to do what I see many do here - shift my focus away from the scale. When my body is ready I am sure it will drop the net weight too without me losing lean mass. Me, getting this much stronger must have exchanged some fat for muscles LOL at least that is what I comfort myself with on days when I get a bit annoyed about the scale being so stubborn

Once more we climbed/hiked up to Langmyrheia. This was the fourth time this spring. :-). This time we were three.

More photos later

Today we tried a new marked route - to a place called Tyttebærfjellet (Cranberry mountain). It was a bi of a disappointment after the lovely name.

Coming up closer to the top we had a nice view to the mountain range we visited some time ago - Viksheiene (se other blog post)

On the top there was a telephone mast.

Yesterday as well as today I walked a round route along Bjorvann (a lake) walking though a beautifully restored farm with 2-300 year old buildings. This route was a very nice route with varied but mainly soft terrain of the kind that gives relief to knees and hips in between climbing the highest tops. We started close to Bustrak School

This school has only one more year to live. Just this week the local municipal board voted that it will be closed down. Another victim in the quest for centralization.

The first couple of meters towards the start of the forest track. In the background you can see the tops

Skarve and Storenut which we hiked some days ago (se blog post)

The terrain were varied between soft roads, stoned path, forest path and edge of fields.

At nice intervals we could see the lovely waterview

Several places along the route I bet are swimming site sin summer.

Then we arrived at the goal, LOL where they put up the mailbox with the magic signing book so that we can gather our points. This as you can see was a lovely spot to eat our apples and drink that water.

One of the views along the path was towards Vikheia, the second Top we couquered this spring ( see blog post for more)

Towards the end we approached the old farm that has given its name to this route, Østgardene ( The East Farms) . As with many old places it has its bird cherry tree Prunus Padus.

I will find out more about these lovely restored buildings which are 2-300 years old. As you can see the roofs are modern, but the rest looks like it used to look in the old days.

These three big flat rocks are target rocks. In the old days when guns used powder these were used for target practice. Drangedal has always been proud of its shooters, and still many score high on national competitions. Also Biathlon is highly regarded here.

Walking around admiring skies and lakes and trees and buildings it is important to also remember to see the smaller things.