World of peppers number 6

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This year is coming to it's end and a new is about to start. Like a wheel without start or end, we continue our lives. Perhaps like a pepper wheel?

5 Rough Honey Crunch apples

Wasted, in the trash.

Not sure how many will be looking at art the last day of the year, but thought I end it like I will start the new one. I consider myself being on a journey, a journey that is more interesting than the end result. I don't always go outside my comfort zone, but I do try to do it, and even if I don't I try to push the limit, try new things.
 This painting I did with a lot of energy, and I didn't stop to think about what I was doing. It is rough, spontaneous and I learned something doing it.

PS! Damn.... missed my number 200 posts anniversary.

World of peppers number 1

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This was my first pepper painting, and my personal favorite (I think). It was the first composition that caught my eyes when going through a lot of photographs that I took while trying things out.

Rough Cherries 1

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I got more peppers paintings, but I thought I mix things up with one of my latest paintings. I have done a series of cherries paintings (12" x 12"). I have tried out different compositions, color combinations and I tried to keep them rough, some more, some less, but still rough.
I liked the feeling of freedom that came with the bigger size canvas.

Strawberry fun

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I usually take a look at challenges that comes along. This one was a challenge on Rookie painter's blog . The challenge was to do your take on a photo, which included two strawberries and a stack of bowls. I chose to crop the shit out of the photo. I might do another one later with a hint of the bowls, but no promises.
This was my first strawberries I have ever painted, so I had a lot of fun with them.

World of peppers number 4

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This is the 4th one I did. It has a simple composition, and I tried to try something new with the colors. There is a slight reflection in the black line again. I love to use Golden Fluid Acrylics, but the downside is that the black one at least is so shiny when it's dry. Have varnished it, but photographing right now is hard, with the light going down early up here in the north, and sometimes I think small imperfections show the real painting, rarely does a photograph do the painting justice.

world of peppers number 5

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Perhaps I am crazy, posting during this holiday, but a little crazy is good I think, right? Haven't posted these in order, not sure if there is a reason or not, I might, but am not totally convinced. In real life I am back painting cherries, larger ones (well semi large, 12" x 12").

World of peppers number 2

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Not sure how many that will spend the time looking on art during this holiday, but I post this one anyway.

I wish all my friends, family,  fellow artists, art lovers and viewers a....

Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year!

world of peppers number 3

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Well, so far I have done 6 paintings with all kind of peppers, and there will be more. This is for me an exploration in color, shapes and compositions. There will be simple ones, chaotic ones, complex ones and so on. Most of them is on the rough side, but I think they still got a crisp and graphic look. You may like some, hate others.
PS! There is a slight reflection in the black line on the upper half of the painting. The fluid acrylic paint is a little shiny when it is dry. Have varnished the paintings, and will photograph them again.

3 Cherries and a persimmon

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This is the 2nd painting I did with the cherries I bought. Now I am going crazy with all kind of peppers, but that will come later.

3 Cherries on grey

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It is so out of season, but when I saw these cherries at the supermarket, I knew what I had to do. They don't exist anymore, but I took some pictures of different compositions that will be handy from time to time.

In the spirit of the Season.....

Haven't done this before, so this is a first.
I have decided to give a discount on four paintings. This offer is valid until the end of the year. The new price is 40 $ (+ 30 $ for shipping and handling = 70 $), so that means a 15 $ discount of more.
The one on upper right is sold, the other 3 is still available.

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Cherries 4

Looking up - Mini     SOLD

That time of year

Three green apples on a plate

Birch Trees Inferno

This is loosely based and inspired by a small painting I did earlier (Birch Trees Mini). I think I took things one more step further toward abstraction. I wanted it to explode with colors, like getting overwhelmed by it all when walking in the woods.

Avocado 5

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A part of skill is confidence. I got a lot confidence painting certain things, other not so much. I know skill and confidence will come with practice, but time for practice can be an issue and having things to show on my blog also makes it hard to get time for everything.

I painted this one right after my last avocado painting. I like painting avocados, the shapes and colors are fun to play with.

Looking up 4

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Before this painting ended up being "Looking up 4" it was a birch trees painting, and it was then I realized that I didn't like to sit and paint this kind of painting on a medium size canvas board-MDF, getting stuck with small details, it looked like something between a Walt Disney painting and a happy color painting for depressed people, I hated it. I went on doing larger birch tree paintings, and this one...... well,  you know the rest.

Tree-stem

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Going through pictures I've taken this fall, going in the park photographing trees and their surroundings, I found  it as usual more interesting to move closer to see details than see the big scene. This tree had a lot of character, and I had a lot of fun painting it.

3 avocado halves

Not For Sale

A few days ago I sat and had no idea what I wanted to paint. I have been painting a lot and I think I needed this little break. During the confusion I did manage to paint this avocado painting, which I like a lot. Some paintings I don't mind not selling.This one I  even consider not selling, well I will sleep over it. I like it's simplicity and roughness.

Green apple on top

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I took a lot of photos of apples a while back, stacking them in different ways, taking pictures from different angles etc. Thought this was a fun one, taking a photo of a pile from above.

Persimmons on purple

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I did this one right after the single persimmon on green background. Same concept but with new composition and colors. I usually try out an idea more than once, unless it sucks really bad, then one try is enough. Think this is interesting enough to explore later.

Looking up 5

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This is a commission painting and is meant to hang together with another painting of mine, "That time of year 5".

Persimmon on green

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I thought I try out an idea and play around, this is the result. Wanted texture, contrast, color and a graphic feel. A simple composition with a lot of energy.

Birch Trees 7

After I did my last big Birch Trees painting I bought the biggest canvas board-MDF I could find and did this one. I turned up the colors, changed the motive and composition, and had a blast with it.

Connected Cherries

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I like painting cherries. Must be something about the shine, the color or/and the form that I like. I call these connected since they in some way touch each other.

Leaping soft toy frog

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Have been out of town, so I couldn't post yesterday. Last one was big time consuming painting, today's post is all about fun, spontaneous and rough brush strokes. Wanted to keep it fresh. I got this soft frog toy, have used it in a The Balance Challenge earlier, but this time I used a different approach.

Birch Trees 6

After I did my first Birch tree paintings, I have had in mind doing a more elaborated painting. After doing a mid-size painting on canvas board-MDF, I realized that I didn't like fiddling with small details and that I loose range in colors and textures. Since I didn't have any large canvas board-MDF at home, I took the largest paper I got and just let loose. This is the result. I toned down the colors and let just some pure color hit in places.

3 Rough Honey Crunch apples

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Wasn't sure if I should post this or not. It has nothing to do with if I like it or not, it is more that I think it was a process, testing things out. Sometimes I can keep a black line through the whole painting, sometimes not. Depend a lot of the feeling I want to have, and the depth in the motive. In this case the composition gives a big size difference, working with depth, so I experimented with it, and this is how it ended up. Rougher than usual perhaps.

A lot of tomatoes 2

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A few months ago, I had started my journey, trying to loose up my style of painting and I did a painting that I called "A lot of tomatoes" (I hope you still like it Renee). A few weeks ago, I got the idea to try and see if if the subject would be done different if I did it now. It is a little looser, the brush-strokes is a little rougher, not a big difference, but a small one. This is how the new one looks like.

Looking up 3

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My better half wanted me to do a new bigger version of "That time of year 2". I said OK, but made clear that I didn't want to try recreate it, but rather do a bigger one inspired of it. This is the result. Bigger canvas, bigger brushes and a lot of fun doing it.