Technique
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2010I am about to teach a class in theatre-puppets, and decided to have a go at it, to renew the knowledge. Using DAS-clay, a kind of mix between paper-maché and plaster over a base of tin-foil. The first picture is just a lump, really. Not even much of a skull-shape, which would have been a [...]
Walk-in-workshop in graphics
Friday, October 29th, 2010Part of the cultural week at our local Culture-house, was a walk-in wokshop in lino-cutting last night. Too tired to prepare properly, I just grabbed a photo a went for it. I had a hunch I was taking a chance on a portrait with such fine lines in a small piece of linoleum, about 10×15 [...]
Way big wayfarer
Friday, September 24th, 2010Things are coming together, pictures are being finished, framed and packed for the journey. It´s been a hectic week, but an efficient week is always a good one! Following the progress of the big painting. The sky and the main sail, the spinnaker, is in place. (Is that the English name?) Mr. Man is in [...]
Student stamp-making
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010We´ve been busy today, the students and me. In just four hours, we ventured at least as many different techniques. One of them was stamp-making. Using fun-foam, they cut out (using scalpel) different shapes. They found some odd ends in the wood-craft department, and glued the shapes onto the blocks. A couple of the students [...]
Stempel
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010Here is a little something for my students at HSH. It´s a very basic how-to in Photoshop, on how you go from a photo, to an image you can use as a pattern for cutting stamps. I´ll do another one in English a bit later when I have time. Although this is a very good [...]
Wayfarer 013
Friday, August 13th, 2010A lighter palette this time, quite the opposite of the warm base. I wonder how this is going to work out… The start, adding layer after layer of acrylics mixed matte medium, to make them see-through (translucent? is that the right word?) Oh, this stage can last for hours and hours and it´s so frustrating [...]
Wayfarer 2
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010Time for another wayfarer-painting. The wayfarer is a small English sail-boat, and I´m working on these pictures for a ship I´m decorating. The beginning, sketching on wood: Adding the red background, and the first layer of washed out blues, all in acrylics. More layers. Even more layers and starting with the details. And then finishing [...]
avocado dye
Sunday, July 18th, 2010I came across a how-to on dying with avocado-peel, and wanted to try it out. I love avocados, eat a lot of them, ergo it took no time at all to save up some peel. Next, I found some silk-fabric cut-offs. And a big pan of boiling water. I let the avocado-peel boil for about [...]
Wayfarer-race picture in progress
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010I am working on another acrylic-on-wood picture with English wayfarers. It´s going to be 35 x 170 cm, so it´s taking it´s time. Here is one end of the picture, not finished yet. The sails are looking pretty good, but the boats themselves aren´t really… well, they aren´t at all yet, are they… I am [...]
Skull stool
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010Remember my creepy, skull-organ-stool? I had it sent from the States, and it arrived about a month after me. It´s be standing around, looking at me with those big, lacking eyes, wondering if I were ever gonna finish what I started… Well, I finally painted the rest of the stool, a mix of white and [...]
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