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Blog-break due to my moving in may! Busy, busy, busy........

First of all I´d like to tell you about a good thing; we have found a new smaller and cheaper apartment down town. I have been looking for an apartment now since my youngest moved to her fathers,...

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adventures yesterday

Hi everybody! Hope you all feel just fine. Yesterday I was out for aventure together with my son. The leader of our little trip took some photos.  I wanted to show you what we did. Have you been doing...

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I´m giving you a couple of links

Thought I should leave you a link to my paintings at "Paint and draw together."And this is the link to my facebook (the artist one). And this facebook-page you are wellcome to visit to "like"and to...

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Article 21

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with some colour from my little corner of the world.This is only some small studies from the "painting" that I have been playing around with while...

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A visit to paint.

Tomorrow I will have a friend over to spend some time together to paint. This might be my chance to get back to paintingmode again. :) I told her that we can paint with my watercolours and she can try...

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A nice artistic chat today with my friend.

 My friend (we worked together for one year at my old plays) starting to paint her "Stilleben" (onions and garlic)after carefully drawing the outlines.She loved my Arches fine 185 gr. paper.Please...

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Flat and done!

It helped leaving my brushes and paints and stuff on the kitchentable! As we say here in Sweden: "Med hjärtat i halsgropen" (with the heart in my throat) I wet the entire painting completely and...

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Struggling with landscapes from imagination.

Maybee I make it harder on myself when I paint landscapes from my imagination. I guess it would be a bit easier to look at a photo. What to paint in the middle ofthe scene when I can´t paint figures...

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Lady in red hat OR catus with red flower :)

 Continuing to paint imaginary landscapes. Two disasters.On the top painting the use of watercolourcrayons is a wayof trying to save it from dissaster. I suppose this way of working is something that...

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Article 15

How many of you have seen Fifty shades of Grey since Valentinesday?  I have. Twice! hahaThis painting ABOVE is from one of my own photos that you can see at pmp. Not an exakt copy, a little changes to...

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2:nd painting from the same reference photo

This is the second painting from the same referencephoto from pmp I liked the shape of the leaves and concentrated on them on both photos. At first, when I planned for the first painting (see last...

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Processpaintings -look from bottom and up. (NOT ready yet!)

Actually I am not sure how to go further now. I have used my cheap paper here. You can see how fragile the paper is if you look closely. I don´t care at the moment as I feel that I have to practise...

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Questions still...

I hope that all of you will have a nice weekend!Have you seen the series of Merlin? I am watching the series with my daughter, every evening if it is possible. In the beginning I sometimes thought it...

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Ready :) Follow the process from bottom and up!

 I´ve made the horizon show less. I´ve painted some french ultramarin amongst the green reflection, to lessen the green and also to follow the rules of perspective on the water. I have finally painted...

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Happy news :) and a small and quick one I did today

Some good news  :)Me and my daughter have started a little contact with sms :)  :) And last weekend she invited me to have some tacos at her place together with family and a friend to my other...

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Small improvements

Added a little Permanent rose and viridian in the distance PLUS a glaze of Permanent rose in the forground to the left and middle (You can hardly see it on the left side of the forground in this photo...

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Wishing you all a Happy easter with a WIP!

  The top one is ready.21 x 41 cm on The Langton (Daler Rowney) Rough 300 gr.Winson & Newton Artist watercolors.Follow the link to PMP to see the referencephoto.

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One more ;)

 I quick one from last night.AND: Don´t forget to scroll down to see the painting I posted yesterday!OR follow this link!41 x 51 cm.The Langton -Daler Rowney Rough, 300 gr. I´m so happy for your visit...

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Article 6

This colormix is Antwerpblue and very little Indian red for the brown color. I like the way the color turned out. :) The colors show a little bit more in reality. 17 x 12 cm. Arches fine 185 gr.I´m so...

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Article 5

My dear blogfriend Antonia del Olmo granted me with this award at the same time as I started my long blogbreak, and inspite of that I was very happy to recieve it; I did not have time to do anything...

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