In the first term in autumn we did self portraits. Mine looked cool, but also like a bluish zombie-maria, and I never finished it. After a few months we returned to the theme, but this time we picked an attribute to add to the portrait. Me being a slightly mental fan of beards took the opportunity to get one. I've now come to understand that beards are hard to paint. Where the beard grows out of the skin in particular. Specially if your reference is yourself with a fake beard hoovering a few mm over the skin. But it was great frickin' fun.
I think it looks a bit like a serious Irish leprechaun.
One of the last model oils, aimed for more realistic color-tones. The photograph made it slightly bluer. Done in about 4 hours.
A quickie done in 2-3 hours with only palette knife. Done in late 2010
Both done in 2011, the first one (Ragnar) pretty late in the spring & the second one in winter. Both about 8 hours each. The bright rainbow colours in the lady-one started of with an accidental brush stroke on her thigh.
The last Still Life of the year. Doing things a little quicker. Done in about 5 hours.
I think this was the third still life I did. And being the first after two one-coloured still lifes that we started the autumn term with, this was an enjoyable break. The brown silky fabric was a toll though, and the apples was damned tricky getting right. Done in about 9 hours (3 lessons).
All the photographs Ive taken of the oil paintings don't do justice to the colours. Oils are so darned vibrant.
Untitled acrylic from 2007
The title translates as 'Your face in water'. Its an acrylic I did back in 2007, one of my few finished ones and one I am quite proud of cause I worked on it for a bit. The circles in the background is gold acrylic that has some shimmer to it, and the photograph doesnt really give much justice to the greens and blues but it likes the red. Oh and did you notice by now I have a thing for redheads?
