An Art Work A Day

Today the students that will have their English written Exam tomorrow had preparation day so I dragged myself up this morning to bake some cup cakes to lift the spirits LOL. it helped.

Tomorrow I will probably stay at home and nurse my cold.

There are lots of things I would have liked to share with you but that will have to wait untill the weekend. The time is late, past midnight, and I need to catch some zzz. Nightynight

Both chili and paprika has the same basic shape. These days Red Paprika even comes in elonged shape like Chili pepper.

This is me playing with chinese brush painting style using watercolours on watercolour paper in miniature size. 1.5x3.5in for those of you not familiar with Artist Trading Cards.

Today I spent most day continuing the extreme decluttering of my living room. Now as I sit here there are almost only the sofas and the tv cupboard left. The rest are empty shells waiting to be carried away. Then hopefully I will find the energy to paint the walls.

Tomorrow morning my son and I plan to drive to town to buy a few things for the house qand the car and the bicycle he LOL hopes I will use the next year so that he can have the car permanently. The car does look good and WOWWWWW the sound system is fantastic. ( It should be - he have worked I think 50 hours on it)

Rabbit, Snake, Chick, Donkey and Tiny Bird

Made only by using melted coloured beeswax - socalled encaustic art.
I thought I should work a bit with a very thick medium after having only played with ink or diluted ink for a couple of weeks now.
ACEO/ATC (original artist trading cards 2.5x3.5”)
price: $15 p&p worldwide included

Just a few more sketches practicing calligraphy today. I can't wait for the weekend and the long weekend next week because I now long for a big painting spree. All are 2.5x.
3.5" and $10 +p&p

Norway:
Nor: to agree or agreement
way: strong and dignified
japanese pronunciation: No-ru-wei

Here are a few more aceos made in ink during this week. All are 2.5x3.5" painted with a big brush and a stick of chinese ink. Price: $10+p&P each.

A bit better today :-) but still quite a bit of pain.



ACEO ATC 07-03-29 Movement of Pain - Watercolour 2.5"x3.5" in plastic toploader
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I struggle lately and do not seem to be able to handle a big canvas this weekend. Instead I paint more emotions abstract in few colours using Aceo size 2.5x3.5in watercolour paper and watercolours. This journey of mine painting or drawing every day is also a journey into and with myself into the future.

Fighting the Bars of Shame
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One of the things I have been thinking of lately is how women, my age and older especially, tend to be filled with shame, not the old sexually related shame but the one more connected with "eat up, think about the starving children in Africa"-kind. Concretely we overeat , we are good girls and finish our plates, but more importantly we get unsure about what feelings we should allow ourself to have.

As we were told to ignore feelings of fullness foodwise because of the need of starving children, we also ignore our own feelings when we are on mum-duty; when the whole family is down in flu, who is taking care of everyone? "Was the holidays/Cristmas/ the trip successful? ""Oh yes, hubby was happy and kids were happy and behaved reasonably. Sure, a wonderful holiday /Christmas etc etc. " We're happy when our people are happy. Or at least that is what we tell ourself and if not - Shame.

Add then the fact that many women in that age group get health problems like fibromyalgia, low thyroid, fatigue syndrom, burn out syndroms, menopause or depression. Problem is that all these diagnoses has depression-like symptoms too. What do women do? All of these health issues also carry some kind of Shame. "Get a grip, pull yourself together, don't be so lazy, think about how fortunate you are, think about those that has worse problems". That doctors has called many of these problems "just nerves" for ages adds to the problem. It is kind of more status to have the historical male middle age problems; heart and ruined backs after heavy manual work. These days the double working women has these too.

These kind of philosophical thought and discussions inspired this watercolour: "Fighting the Bars of Shame" It could equally be the poor African Mum having got HIV/AIDS from her cheating husband knowing that their kids would soon be without help. That too and similar situations is known to women. I did not want the face to be weak in shame but hurt and angry fighting it.

I do wish I was a better artist so that I could really explore emotional and philosophical issues like this and one day I am sure I will be able to to that in a manner that satisfies me. Untill then I will have to fight and break down the internalized "good girls do paint inside the lines"- socialization I have grown up with. I am amazed on how tough that is to break down. That is one reason I do not paint very tidy detailed works - I do not want to wake that monster. My dream and goals are quite other styles of drawing and paintings.

Well, the journey has only just begun - keep following me and who knows where it will all end.

"Abstract Geography".

ACEO ATC 07-03-26 Brown Mountains






ACEO ATC 07-03-25 Seascape







ACEO ATC 07-03-24 Three Flowers

I've been thinking a bit over the last few days. I have not reached a final opinion yet but I feel that I am getting somewhere. On one hand I sometimes feel that my simple compositions are substandard to more complicated ones but on the other hand what I often fall for in other oartit's art is very simple lines and compositions so maybe my style IS the simple shapes and compositions? On the other hand my goal is a more advanced simple compositions and style. Keep following me and you will see me develope my style further. For now I just continue to force myself to post both the works that I am very happy about and the ones I think are lousy. Then you the viewer will have to make up your mind on each and every work. The strange thing is in fact that often the works people flal for is the ones that I nearly binned. For that reason I do not completely dare to believe myself and my opinion of my own works. I always put them aside at least and then look at them again some time later.

I have been working mostly in miniature lately so I guess it is time I try to work myself up to the normal sized canvases again hehe. This acrylic is 18x24cm














Landscape in Bodø
Acrylics on artist canvas panel 18x24cm
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It has been a while since I tried to draw or paint figures so I found out I would try a bit today. Not perfect but not way too bad either. It is also painted by using coffee as the medium.

Olympics in the Old days. Please visit my ebaystore if you want to bid on this item.

Landscape, Sphere, sylinder, Digital man and Abstract
I could not resist playing further with colours found in the kitchen. I ended up loving the colours from beetroot and red cabbage. Diet coke did not work, neither did the berry lemonade I had.

As you can see, I have played with using coffee as the medium. painted on watercolours paper: Weasel, Rabbit, Frog and Straws on beach.
These are dedicated my mamma, who loves coffee.