Yesterday we went to Mantorp Park to look at cars. No its not a car park outside the local mall. It is a racetrack and it was actually my first visit.
It was cold and I felt kind of stressed for no reason but I manage to sit down in the restaurant long enough to do two quick ones.
This is the church tower in our village. It draws attention, standing in the center, glowing in the sunset or being a refuge for the birds in the mist. It was built to draw attention of course, and has done that quite a while since it was inaugurated 1306.
This was drawn from our own yard, I left the rooftops out and I think I will try it again with a ruler!
First try with masking fluid. Couldn’t decide on what to do first. Just put some marks there and a spot there. The next day I had to put some color on and this appeared.
I am not the best writer, I should always do a draft first! But better to write and mess things up than never to write at all!
I seldom do things over. I sketch a lot. A lot! But I don’t take the time to do more “worked” stuff. I almost never do paintings. I like my quick watercolor sketches, but some days I wonder if the tome has come to do something more of it. I don’t have a lot of unbroken hours to just sit and paint but as a exercise I did something of an old sketch from last year.
I did a pencil sketch that morning of the tulips in our kitchen and at the evening when they had spread out some more I did them with pen and watercolor.
The first is from last year.
And the new one, from the morning sketch:
Did this a while ago, oldest daughter did the coloring of the lower popcorn. It is actually the same popcorn from different angels.
I haven’t been the most productive person lately, when it comes to this blog that is. So much is happening right now and my days are full.
I still don’t have anything scanned to show.
I’m really into shadows for the moment. Everywhere I look my eyes finds new interesting shadows to explore. It is so great to have the sun back, but give me some shadow and a paper!
I was tagged by Martìn who recently saw the CD he made the cover for in the store for the first time. “Now, here’s a list of 5 artists, who should tell 5 facts about themselves and tag other 5 artists.”
Five facts about me..
1. My first has to be just that about the cd. I know exactly the feeling when you see the CD cover you made in the store for the first time because a long time ago I did just that. Some friends had a band and I did a woodcut. For a short while it was in the windows of a CD store in the town I lived in then. Umeå. Pax Vobiscum
2. I have big, big troubles regarding this life as a blog person. I think I have written about this ones or twice (to my brother a hundred times): The thing is that I have problems with anxiety when it comes to comment on other peoples blogs. In the beginning I thought that I just had to get used to it and tried to force myself to leave comments to get over it but I can’t. Sometimes I could spend one hour trying to just type something down and then erase everything. I find this very weird. And frustrating. But I do leave some comments, I publish about one of twenty five times of trying.
3. Once an art teacher told me that it would be a waste for the society if I don’t work in art. The year after that I worked with an art teacher (some kind of internship), I loved it, hated Fridays, couldn’t wait until Monday morning. But after that I have been working with everything else but art.
4. I love superhero movies. Marvel!
5. I have been reading a lot during my life. I am usually a quick reader but in August last year I started with Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver, and right now it seems like it will take at least until August to finish it. I love the book but this one is not written in the easiest English and I don’t have a lot of time. If you haven’t read it yet I will offer you just one sentence to give you the feel about it.
“There was no other furniture in the room, although the eight-foot-high grandfather clock in the adjoining hall contributed a sort of immediate presence with the heaving to and fro of its cannonball-sized pendulum, witch made the entire house lean from one side to the other like a drunk out for a brisk walk, and the palpable grinding of its gear-train, and the wild clamorous bonging that exploded from it at intervals that seemed suspiciously random, and that caused flocks of migrating waterfowl, thousands of fell overhead, to collide with each other in panic and veer into new courses.”
I won’t tag five others. But I would love to read five things about everyone so feel free!
My computer has a week or two off. He needed a break and won’t serve me with some things like talk to the scanner. No sketches for a while!
