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.
Time to show some more of what Ive been up to at art school. Starting with one of my favourite croquis sketchings, I think it was from late 2010 or early 2011. When you do it once a week for months in a row and dont put down the dates, it gets hard to remember.
Lil' cat Ella seemed to take a liking to this one as well.
Etiketter:
2010,
basis,
sketch
We talked about copyright and shizzle in class. We were to take pictures & redraw them in a new atmosphere, make them into our own. I pickedFrancisco de Goyas 'Castres', Petrus Paulus Rubens 'Helena Fourment' & Picassos 'Il Gatto' and combined the three.
Etiketter:
2010,
basis,
sketch
I made scribbles on top of my watercolor test blotches. One turned out to be a cool bird.
Our first assignment in Graphic Design/Illustration was to illustrate an ABC book.
We got a few texts from author Lennart Hellsings classic ‘’Krakel Spektakel ABC’’-book and picked two of them to work with. The imaginary book measured 170x220 mm and we were to include the text, the letter and an illustration. The texts I chose was R & U.
"Rosamunda Annorlunda har en katt som är en hund.
Annorlunda, som du ser, är en stad där allting sker ut-och-in
och bak-och-fram
och upp-och-ned."
”Ulla min sjöjungfru, Ulla Undin
vaggar i havet på en delfin:
Vågorna rulla
våta och fulla
fulla av silver och gull åt min Ulla.”
This is my horrible efforts at translating them:
“Rosamunda Strange has a cat who is a dog.
Strange, as you see, is a city where everything happen outside-in
and inside-out
and upside-down.”
“Ulla my mermaid, Ulla Undin
rocking in the ocean on a dolphin:
The waves are rolling
wet and full
full of silver and gold for my Ulla”
We had about 3 weeks to do it. The ideas sort of splurted out during first class. Hellsings texts were all wonderful. The painting got done the last 3 hours off the day before the assignment was due. And the text-graphics I did in 3 minutes when I was dead tired. Ulla was planned to be a heck of a lot more scarier than she is. Also there's golds in there that the scanner wont pick up. There’s a lot that I would’ve done differently, but for a first Im somewhat pleased.
