I guess the pink tones have creeped into the recent paintings because the whole world has been so fluffy recently. This week has been weirdly productive though! And it is caused by one thing only – the cool air arrived from Norway and it is giving us a week long break from the cute century record breaking heat wave. Trying to get as much painting time in before the next heat wave starts. I can’t believe that you southerners have to deal with this every year! I have no idea how you manage.
Do you remember the oil paint smell! It’s so good! So I took the paints out and felt like painting, I started with a couple of landscapes, and then a couple of rush portraits. You need to paint sometimes or you will forget.
My sister is sometimes making photoshoots for creative purposes, so I lent some portrait photos from her shoots for reference with her permission. It’s pretty hard to find serious portrait references.
The first portrait started out as a realistic one but then I painted over it and made it into a blue vampire.
Photograph and model:
The second portrait from this month, is another model from my sisters photoshoots.
Photograph @triinergfoto and model @kristina.trees21:
The rainfrog really needs to read if the plague ended already, but can’t see over the paywall and there is no known way around it.
The Christmas is done, let’s do spring now.
Sometimes you forget, but despite the cute bally appearance, the rainfrog is a frog of prey.
A problem I’ve been wondering about is how to display art and giclee prints on a photo backdrop, and how to create a light box. There are so simple answers for most of the things, but I always circle back to them. After thinking about building this and that, I figured it would be most creative to just draw it. So I’ve been spending time painting the backdrop and also using some old paintings, and here are the first trials.
I experimented with a recent 8x12in ink painting.
Was experimenting with colors a little bit, so todays raven came out orange-red. I uploaded them into the shop also. https://www.etsy.com/shop/5erg.
The latest ink painting, on canvas, original available on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/895386892.
So I noticed a couple of people have drawn this painting of mine from my pin and marked the pin as “I tried it”. So I though I’d post these drawings I found on my blog here!
I didn’t know people do that! Love them!
The rainfrogs are finding a whole couple of moments to enjoy.
The rainfrogs enjoying quality time spent together.
