An Art Work A Day

Jippii weekend!!! Now I look forward to enjoying myself imagining my Pink bird in different settings.



Pink Bird With Beau Shy
ACEO 2.5x3.5inches
watercolour pencils
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I decided to have a day of rest and recovery after work today. I got a phone at 2 a.m. and was not able to go to sleep again before 5ish resulting in a night of about 4 hours sleep after some nights before this week with unrestful night.

All in all I decided to skip the gym today and concentrate on getting rested. If conditions outdoors had been less icy I would have taken a walk.

I have also concentrated on getting larger amounts of water in today. SO ...

Food:-)
Water :-)

Sometimes a person learns most from what goes wrong and that is the case for me today.

I wanted to paint 3 birds on a branch with watercolours but I wanted to use chinese brush techniques nad also background washes. I did it both on Shuen paper and on acrylics thicker paper. The result is fairly conclusive. You can not use washes in watercolours as you can use ink.

In my intro I said I would show failure as well as successes. These are a few failures that I also learnt something from.

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.

No 4 in my Northern Landscape Series - Road Ahead
acrylics on artist canvas panel 18x24cm
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I have started a series of paintings inspired by landscapes from the North of Norway where I am originally from. This is the third in the series. The other two are "landscape Bodoe" and "Autumn Field"













Nearly Winter
acrylics on aritist canvas panel 18x24cm
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Yesterday was a strange day. It was the first time in about two months where I did not post. It did not feel right not to, but I told myself that the world would not go under. I do not think skipping will be a habit. It did not feel right. So what did I do yesterday night. I planned my holiday is April. Then my mum and I will be going to England where we will attend wet on wet classes on florals. I do it mostly for the trip and plans to sketch a lot and buy tons of artist materials. I also look very much forward to meeting people I have only talked to online. It will be great to be in the same workshop painting. Afterwards we painters will have a dinner and a few of us has rented rooms at the same travel lodge. I think it will be great. So what i did last night was to spend hours deciding what plans to take, where to stay ( three different places) check on buses and availability by public transportation booking etc etc. I really hope it will be a wonderful mum and daughter trip.

Well, I guess you expecyt an artwork too. Here are a few ACEOs done in watercolours and one in pastels. Viol, Red Clover, Tree in pastel, Trees along path







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