Bird's Nest Abstraction 21

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I haven't actually painted at all lately, over a week since I touched a brush. It started with me over thinking how I made my last face exploration so effortless and after that I lost inspiration. I am taking things slow right now, recharging my battery and trying to figure out where to go next. Some subjects I don't feel like doing right now, others I'm not sure what direction I want  to take them (after all I want to ad some new to a subject).
Luckily I got paintings left to post. This is another one of the more abstract nest paintings.

Bird't Nest Abstraction 15

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This is one of the more abstract paintings in the series. I also pushed and played with the colors. I had a lot of fun with it.

Flower Abstraction 18

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I went back to this years favorite flowers and did a clean and simple composition, with a graphic impact. Simplicity isn't easy, every brush stroke count. I'm not sure if one can go too simple, but I like it.

Cupcake 22

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This is one of the cupcake paintings I did in early May. I took inspiration from two kind of cupcakes and did several versions of them. I didn't want to post them all at once. Right now I tend to do series of paintings with a subject and it is nice to have some paintings with other subjects to mix things up with.

Bird's Nest Abstraction 5

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This is one of my earlier bird's nest painting and this time I worked more with depth, partly with limited amount of black lines. I can approach depth in several ways and there is also times when I don't even want to work with depth since it can work against keeping an abstract feel.

Bird's Nest Abstraction 26

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After doing a lot of nests, more or less abstract, I combined waterlilies and nest in this painting. I might do a more elaborate painting of this, but at the moment I enjoy going more abstract and graphic with the nest series. I am still searching for an idea that can become a new series. A shape, an idea, a concept, suggestions are always welcome.

Flower Abstraction 14

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The summer is here and what is more summer than flowers. Not sure why, but daisies and cone flowers are my favorite flowers so for this year. I did this one a while back, but I am considering start painting flowers again.

Bird's Nest Abstraction 16 & 19

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I loved this color combination so much that I did 3 paintings with it and variations of this composition. This is two of them. I know I want to keep one, probably the first one I did, the smaller one of the two.

Face exploration 10

Here is the painting I mentioned in my last post. If I went too far, well it is a matter of taste and if I stopped earlier I would have missed out on the learning experience. I like it as a finished painting, but I am also glad I took progress photos.

Below you can see the progress. In my opinion the first two stages could easily been a finished painting with a few adjustments.

Bird's Nest Abstraction 6

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I just did a face exploration painting that I like, but the fun is the question "When is a painting finished?". I took 2 process photos and both could be, with some small changes, a finished painting. I did go further with it and I like the end result too. If I did the right thing or not, a matter of taste, but  at least I got the progress photos (posted on my Facebook page).

The painting I posting today started out totally different. I wanted to take a more aggressive approach, went with a deep red wash  and the color combined with the single abstract nest gave me all the wrong associations, so I did a 180 degree turn and just went for it. I love the almost invisible nests. They are there but very subtle.

Waterlily Abstraction 6

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I am not sure where I will take my waterlily paintings, how much I will push them. Right now I just let it come natural, finding some balance between energy and calmness. And of course having fun with it.

Abstructure 5

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I did this one a while back when I explored cone flowers etc. in the series "Abstructure". Since I try to mix things up and not just post things I do there and then, it can take some time before some paintings get posted.

Bird's Nest Abstraction 22

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I thought I post one of the latest paintings in this series. This is the first of two large paintings, the largest ones in this series and one of my personal favorites. I went more toward to the abstract with it and I had fun painting it.

Bird's Nest Abstraction 3

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This was the 3rd painting I did in this series, a series that so far contain 22 paintings. The color choices in this painting makes me think of the beach, water or a lake.

Waterlily Abstraction 5

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I posted earlier the start of this painting. I thought it was a good start, but I realized that if I wanted that kind of simplicity, I shouldn't have painted it during the evening with no natural light. The contrast looks greater than they actually are.
I didn't push it too much, wanted to find a starting point to work from. I like the result and found myself enjoying painting waterlilies again.