Abstracture 13

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I had no idea what painting to show. I don't dare to say how many I got to choose from, but I sat at least an hour before I had made up my mind.
I usually want to mix things up since I tend to do series of painting, but on the other hand I want to show my latest pieces. After some thinking I have chosen to post a subject that I have done and posted a lot, but have gone so abstract that I have decided to use the name of another series that is more abstract and has been influenced by nature. I also had in mind two paintings that I did with squares "Twelve squares of waterlily fun".

Pine Cone Abstraction 7

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This one was made  for a client that wanted a 12" X 12" pine cone painting. I didn't want to add anything more in the composition, but got more room to play with the interaction between the pine cone and the background.

Flower Abstraction 21

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Right now I am more pushing and playing with subjects I like than finding a new subject that will give me that creative kick. One of the things I have played with lately is flowers, not so strange since flowers are all around you right now.

Pine Cone Abstraction 5

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This is the 2nd smaller paintings I did of this subject. Painting them smaller meant that I could be bolder and could simplify them further.

Waterlily abstraction 7

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This is a new version of a painting that was lost on it's way to Canada last year. It rarely happens, but it is frustrating when it does. I did two versions, this is the first one. I liked this one a lot and it has the original painting's spirit, but I noticed that I had less visible water than the original. I think the reason for it is that the proportions on the new one is different than the original (original was painted on paper). I will show the 2nd one later.

Bird's Nest Abstraction 27

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This is one of the more abstract paintings in the series and I personally like this direction, the colors, the repetition of shapes etc. I think this is a path worth taking if I want to pursue more abstract art. I have a lot of fun painting them too. 

Pine Cone Abstraction 1

I'm finally painting again. Not sure if this will be a series of this new subject, but so far I have fun and have done 4 paintings so far. It was actually my father who suggested that I would give Pine cones a try. I had some doubt in the beginning, not sure if I could pull it of and do something interesting, but I gave it a go.
This one is rather big, but I intend to do some smaller ones too.

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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  Bird's Nest Abstraction 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.