An Art Work A Day

Waterfall

ink on shuen paper

23x34 cm

$50 p&p worldwide included.

Finally yesterday I finished preparing for the Christmas fair this weekend. Now all I need are a few nails to use when hanging my work up. Of course we only have a limited space each so to show what I have been doing the last half year I decided to invest in this big binder with thick plactic sheets and cardboard to put inside. My daughter saw it when she visited last and told me it looked very professional. And of course it is made using recycled paper.

I am satisfied with it myself because by putting different coloured cardboard inside the plastic sheets I not only stiffen it up which preservs the work better, I also give a fake mounted impression and that might help possible viewers imagine how the work will look mounted and framed.

Even though it was very expensive ($ 35 for the binder and nearly 3 for the sheets and in addition the cardboard), I consider getting one per half year to protect my work and to be portefolios for possible buyers and help myself find the right work when you send your purchase inquiries LOL.

If I continue ot be a daily painter and I plan on doing that, then if I add sketches and studies and such as well I end up with around 500 pieces a year and only a few sell so I need to find good ways to store and protect mywork.

I have had a very productive day today JIPPPIIIII and had some fun. This is a painting using chinese ink which I ground on my lovely ink stone (meditation for stressed out artists :-)). Using shuen paper which is medium absorbant I had some control but still the paper did it's magic. I was very happy myself with this one because I felt I mastered a bit more to use variations of keeping the brush dry or wet.

This one I will frame and put out on the guild exhibition next month if it is not sold before that.

Yesterday I practiced painting pandas in ink. I want to thank to somesai and her fantastic photos on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/somesay/ which she kindly allowed me to use for reference when practicing. I will definately practice more pandas. The shape seems easy, problem is how to show the white on white.

I am still struggling with that troat infection and that together with my work have made it neccessary for me to put the painting of the house a bit on hold. Yesterday evening I also had the autumn parent meeting at work. Well anyway here are the results from my last chinese brush painting practice; crow and pointisettia, magpie, Cormorant and Sparrow

As you can see I have been practicing painting birds on shuen paper. And you can probably also see that I "piddled in my puddle" as a fellow artist phrase it when she keep reminding me to stop and not do anything more on a work. This is totally neccessary in Chinese brush painting and I do have many years of practice before me before I master this very interesting technique.

Lately I have been walking in the forest a lot and I can feel it "talking" to my soul. It is now midnight and I recently returned from a walk among trees that turned very mytical as the darkness fell. This painting in ink on shuen paper is one of a series I want to make, trying to capture some of that magic in the forest.

I show you it in a mount simply because I think it makes it come out better.

size of paper is A5. Below you can see a photo of the wonderful pattern on the path that inspired me.

I hope you like to see me using different mediums so try to pass on what I as an artist see.