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

 SOLD

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

SOLD

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.