A Russian again

 

 Do you remember my russian dolls?

This is a new but different one. I really like to play using this shape, and while doing this one, several new ideas popped up. The clue is that the outer lines makes the shape of a russian doll. To make it look a bit more like a human being I have given her shoes/feet instead of the usual stand, the original shape is still there though. A fun thing with this one is that I can't stop wondering how she looks in front. I have no intention to turn her around, but still, I feel drawn to do it.

 

 

 

As you see I'm still into patterns trying out how they can be used. Learning still.

What kind of attitude do you think this one have? The complete image I mean.

 

I'm so sick and tired of all the focus on a slim body, and that everyone needs to lose weight. There is not a single photo in any magazine that tells the truth. Why do we let us fool like this? The industry want us to believe in something un natural. If one have a health problem, I do understand the necessity of losing weight, but for all the rest......... 

 

I think my girl today shows a healthy attitude, almost like saying, I love my body and I'm proud of it. In my head she's on her way to go shoping, probably some more fancy clothes.

 

Beautiful, sunny weather here the last couple of days and I love it.

The garden work inspired me.

Yesterday we had a cooler kind of weather.

And I spent the day finishing this painting. It was already started (drawn) so it was mainly painting and detailing job to do. I guess this one will be my last at this point. Now I want to finish off a painting & embroidery piece I have left for far too long.
Can you see I was inspired from working in the garden? The words is a Norwegian song telling us some words of wisdom. We learnt the song at school.

The first thing I told this girl was to consider a change of hairdresser. Her hair didn't at all come out as I had planned but, it is how it is.
I'm very pleased with the skin colouring this time. One should believe that if one can do it once, one can always do it. As you know that is not how it works. Even though it's the same process things changes all the time. It's part of the making that each piece turns it's own way. Do you experience that often? I guess you do, that's why we say that the pieces live their own lifes.

Today I'm going to cut back some hedges. They've grown far too much into our paths. It's very nice of you to think that our garden is beautiful but, it's more like normal. The reason we worked so hard now was that last summer we didn't do anything because of all the rain. Normal would be the right word to use.
Thanks for checking in and have a great day!

Today.....

We have the most beautiful summer right now.

Today I was able to hang my washed bedlinen outdoors to dry. Can't remember the last time I was able to do that. I love the feel of bedlinen that have dried outdoors. Yesterday we had 29 deg. C here and I love it.

These tulips are more than a hundred years old. When I still had my curtainshop one of my customers gave me some bulbs. A professor came to her to examin the tulips and he confirmed that these were of a very old type. They look like any other tulip but the odor, you should've smelled it. Handyman say they smell like raspberry jelly. Another good thing is that they do multiply.

Another tulip in my garden. These do survive from year to year, the more modern types does not.

My yellwo light at the moment. I don't know their name, what I do know is that these are more yellow than anything else in my garden. When the dark comes they almost act like lightbulbs.

At last a new painting. The form of a russian doll has made me addictive. It's so fun to see how "free" one can draw within that form. But, now it''s time to go outside. Much too good weather to stay in.

Have a beautiful day too!

This weekend has been fun.

Sandra made her very first real painting on canvas. (pizzabox)

I'm really impressed by the way she approach whatever she is going to do. Not afraid to try anything, more like yes bring it on.
I showed her some paintings, talked about ways of doing it and she sat down planning her work. I did suggest to her that some simple shapes would probably be smart to start with. She drew some flowers and painted them herself.
Below you see her in action.

 I love the result and she was very proud too. Her mom liked it so much that she was looking for a space in their livingroom to hang it. Best of all is that it's ready to hang. We made the hanging wire before painting it.

Sandra want to do alot more of this and that was what I was counting on too.

I did finish another of my russian doll paintings. This one is a bit different but I like her and she is called : If I was a Viking..... I wasn't kind to her while drawing her feet, but I was trying to keep the shape of a russian doll. If you look closer, you'll see that the shape is still there.

As a Viking I would probably not wear red shoes but I would have loved to own a shield like this one. I don't know why she became a Viking to me, but she did. The background is missing here too, I find it difficult to choose something suitable. I'll have to wait with this one too.

My self portraits, I forgot last week but coming week I'll do another one.

We've had summer today and will have the next days too. I simply love it!
Enjoy your week!

Always changing.

It was a wet day yesterday.

I couldn't go to the park for photographing, there was far too much rain. And as usual I couldn't wait, so I finished my painting without a local motif.

Handyman and I spent a few hours together with Sandra and her family and that was that. Because of all the rain we didn't feel like doing anything else. Handyman had to go to work to find some item numbers and I went with him to try if it would work to downsize my painting. It did. I was afraid that the shape of it would turn wrong. My idea was to make a big painting because of the detail work. Much easier to make fine details on a larger scale. When downsized the details look nice but would be impossible to make that size, at least for me it would.
Below is the downsized copy. It now measures 10.5 by 14.5 cms. like a postcard. Sorry about the quality of the photo.

Below is the finished painting without any color at the background. This one is made on a A-3 sized watercolor sheet. It's always hard to tell how big/small a painting is, just by looking at a picture. Therefore I laid them on top of each other to show you the differense.
Today I'm going to spend the day with a friend, we'll do some shopping and have lunch together. In the afternoon Sandra is coming, and this weekend she's going to make a " real " painting. Her canvas will be an empty pizzabox. I'm so looking forward to that.

Here you'll see the differense between the two. I'm pleased with how it turned out ,but I think perhaps it would be even better with a more delicate design. I'll try that too.
I'm not quite sure what to do to the background so that'll have to wait for awhile. The face is made using crayons, the rest are done by using twinks.

Have a great weekend everyone!