i hardly ever paint with oil paints (i also never learned how to), but since i still have some old paints here, i would like to learn how to paint with them. we’ll start with a simple composition of leaves in front of the sky. for my taste, it could have more contrast, but i had fun and i feel like oil paint might be something for me!

i painted this picture very quickly, in just three days in my studio. i like how warm and juicy everything looks, even though we are currently experiencing a grey winter.

inappropriately, while I was painting the picture, I was reading mary shelley’s frankenstein. the painting is probably in far too cheerful colours, but when i look at it, i can’t help thinking of the monster from the story, who is made up of „parts“ and leads a lonely and reclusive life. perhaps i call the painting „novel physical“?

I should also really start taking photos with a camera… my mobile phone struggles capturing the colours.

it took me quite a long time to finish painting these three small pictures. the warm bodies are randomly fused together or separated.

i like how they stand out against the white paper and how they are partially covered by translucent leaves. the leaves are a new motif in my fruit paintings. until now, i have tended to paint more bodies that vaguely resemble fruit, but i like the leaves, even if the bodies become more like fruit. i will see where this takes me.

i have prints available for the open studio weekend 🙂 these are excerpts from my paintings printed on hahnemühle paper.

a wonderful friend helped me create the prints, and I am very happy with the quality. I also love digitizing my work and resizing it, such as enlarging individual sections. each print has a run of 25, but there are also unique pieces. for the uniques, we scanned, colored, and printed old drawings. then, I drew on these prints again.

I went to a urban sketching meet up and it turns out I’m pretty rusty, time to practice some more… still pretty fun:)

always keep swimming and don’t let yourself get stressed!

I haven’t done linocut for a long time because I thought I hated it, turns out it’s not true at all.

finally finished this piece and i’m really happy with it!

finding the right balance of color and form took me a while, and for my next painting the goal is definitely: less detail, more broad forms.

but i love how the bodies collapse into each other, catching one another the moment they finally touch.

since i started a new job, i don’t have as much time to paint as i’d like. but i got to spend the last two days in my studio

also i’m glad the “ugly phase” is finally over! now it’s all about refining the forms and making the shapes more defined. feeling much better about this painting now.

the bodys are still a work in progress.