Flower Abstraction 154

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This is one of my latest paintings. I still dabble in flowers and bird's nests, but looking for my next muse.

If anyone got an idea or a suggestion about a subject that could be interesting in my style, feel free to contact me.

I wanted this one to be like a rainbow, to be soft but with contrasts. It is all about repetition with variations.

Flower Abstraction 141

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This painting is all about variation of a color and the complimenting color. I used acrylic spray paint to make the soft gradient colors and then worked with lines and bold thick brush strokes to contrast the soft. I have a lot of fun exploring this.

Flower Abstraction 143

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Going outside my comfort zone is a good thing, scary but good. I have played around with colors and textures. Using spray paint allows me to hint colors within colors. Not easy to control, but a lot of fun.

Rowan Berries 26

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I did this a while back and was ahead of time, this berries is getting read around now. There is a lot of similar berry bushes/trees, even if these isn't common everywhere.

This painting was originally rectangular, but I thought it lacked focus and cut the canvas down and re-framed it as a square.

Artist Appreciation Month

I was reminded by Patience Brewster that August is Artist Appreciation month. Patience is an artist herself and designs holiday ornaments and figurines. They invited me to write about artists/painters that have or are inspiring me. Naturally I accepted.

I started out drawing and painting without a drive, without any ambition. I never did something new, I didn't push myself and I didn't grow as an artist. It also meant that there was nothing to drive me forward. I painted a few paintings and then nothing. It could mean that I didn't do anything for years.

At a point I realized that I was stuck, I was repeating myself. I also felt that there were too much focus on skill/technique and too little on expression. There were artist that I always felt connected to, Like Vincent Van Gogh. I love his combination of bold brush strokes and strong colors.

Through Internet I found new artists that inspire me and have made impact on my art. They way I paint, the direction I want to go.

I don't want to be a copy cat, I learn from what I see and make it my own.

A few artists that has influenced my work are (in no particular order):

Carol Marine (Love her brush strokes and her ability to simplify, keeping it clean and graphic).

Robert Joyner (His roughness, almost abstract approach is amazing. He brings order to chaos (if you know what I mean).

Steve Penley (I espcially like his landscape paintings, but also his portraits. Love his bold colors and brush strokes.)

Andrew Salgado (I get inspired by the way he combine areas that has bold brush stokes and textures with other areas that are calm. He does super large abstract portraits.)

I have grown a lot and I hope that I won't stop doing that. I am on a journey, a fun one.

 This is where I am today.

This is me in 2009 (a painting called "Above")

I am not saying that my art sucked back then, I did some great paintings, but they didn't inspire me to keep painting. My art today drives me forward, inspire me to continue and other artists inspire me to push myself outside my comfort zone.

Flower Abstraction 145

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Finally I have a beautiful and functional greenhouse. It took a lot of time, hard of work, but in the end, it was worth it.
This is a painting that I did a while back. It is a flower abstraction that has a limited color palette and has a lot of impact.

Bird's Nest Abstraction 52

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I did this one a few weeks ago. I wanted to go bold with colors and shape and have some fun with it.

Bird's Nest Abstraction 53

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Am busy assembling our new greenhouse, a lot of work, but thought I post this painting that I did a few weeks ago. This is a large bird's nest painting that has a lot of earthy colors, wanted to play with variations, keep it interesting without it getting messy.

Flower Abstraction 150

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I wanted to do a dark  flower abstraction with a limited color palette, with the sparkle of yellow/red in the center of the flower, glowing in the night.

Flower Abstraction 135

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Well, still doing garden things and not painting, but gardening is creative too. We considered to build a low stone wall, but the thought of digging etc. changed our minds. We continued the fence instead. We made it slightly lower than the side, but we connected them in a way that we think looks great. Still has to plan, buy and plant more bushes, trees and flowers, and let it grow, but it is a start.

The painting is a small flower abstraction with a two flower composition and some bold brush strokes.

Flower Abstraction 144

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This is a small abstractions that I did earlier and it has found a home already. I played around with the colors and the contrast with gradient colors and flat brush strokes.