fredag 11 december 2020

Water colors 5

Well, another week is coming to an end and I would like to treat you to some water colors! Today it will be examples from batches nine and ten!

Take care!



Santolina chamaecyparissus


Plectranthus scutellarioides


Tropaeolum majus, the above three paintings are from the ninth batch and the following from the tenth.


Antirrhinum majus


Begonia x tuberhybrida


Brugmansia suaveolens


Lathyrus odoratus, when I started painting this one and especially the leaf, I noticed that it was a really good drawing and that I really didn't want to make a mess of it with the paint!


Nicotiana sylvestris

fredag 4 december 2020

Water colors 4

Another week is coming to an end and the weekend is so close you can almost touch it, the best feeling ever! Before you start your weekend I offer you a short break with four small paintings. This time they come from the seventh and eighth batches.

Somewhere along this project I realized that green is quite a complicated color. The bought colors of green did not really to the trick. It was when I started to blend my own greens that I sort of got the hue right. So, a piece of the learning curve so far is to mix my own greens!

Take care!



Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinacea


Pullmonaria saccharata


Ipomea batatas


Euphorbia graminea Diamond Frost


fredag 27 november 2020

Water colors 3

It's time for a break, it's time for...water colors! Welcome to the third post with water colors of flowers and leaves! This time I've chosen works from the fifth and sixth bathes. Due to an update my scanner will not function, so this time I've taken photos of them...

When I chose works for these posts I go with gut feeling and also what I think of the quality of the drawing and painting, because I do not want to waste your time with sub par works! ;-) 


Caragana arborescens


Salix caprea 'Kilmarnock'


The following three works are from the sixth batch, Helianthus annuus.


Petunia x hybrida


Tagetes erecta



fredag 20 november 2020

Water colors 2

Hi!

The week is coming to an end and you know what time it is? Yeah, it's water color time!!! I will now treat you to samples from the third and fourth batches. Just earlier today I came to think of the fact that I mention my works of art as batches...well, a small price for being productive I guess! ;-)

Enjoy and take care!



Brunnera macrophylla, when looking at these three paintings one (or I) can see an improvement in both drawing and painting.


Dicentra formosa, when I made the first paintings I needed so much water that there were pools of paint in my water color set, now the pools have diminished and it seems that I find the correct color faster.


Lamprocapnos spectabilis, I think this is one of my favorite flowers.


Betula pendula 'Youngii', the following ones are from the fourth batch, I chose this one for I like the painting, it looks like it has been done in a jiffy and has a feeling of improvisation and lightness.


Prunus 'Acolade', here was the first time when I noticed that my drawing skills started to improve...


Prunus x eminens 'Umbraculifera', ...and this time the painting improved also...


Salix euxina 'Bullata', I'm not sure but I like this one...!

fredag 13 november 2020

Water colors

Hello there!

Since February of this year I am studying a gardening course at Fristad Folkhögskola, close to Borås here in Sweden. I have been working in the business for a few seasons now and came to the conclusion that it would be a positive thing to do that course that could eventually land me a great job!

As a part of this course we are expected to learn about flowers and plants and so on. To help me do that I started to do small drawings and paintings of them. I made them for it is easier for me to learn them, and to sort of, get to know them. I did NOT make them to save time...! Mark my words these bundles of joy are time consumers of the highest degree!

I will now treat you to a selection of my best ones, starting with the first and second batches of water colors.



Starting out I took whatever water color paper I had at home and ran with it! Here you see Populus tremula. I will only write the scientific name for them, for it is easier for the reader to search for information on the plant or flower or tree with that name instead with a Swedish one. 


Sorbus aucuparia, when I made these paintings I realized that the quality of the paper was really bad, I could only paint a few times, or get the paper wet about three or four times before it dissolved!


Hepatica nobilis



Narcissus pseudonarcissus



Narcissus poeticus



Allium sphaerocephalon, here I used a better paper! Even though art is not a material sport, and I do not like to spend too much money on art supplies, mainly because I do not think I can do them justice; but, it is awfully nice to work with materials of good quality!

I hope you liked them, when I browsed through them I could see that my skills have increased, which means that later additions will look even better!

Take care!

fredag 25 september 2020

Lego Advent Calendar Star Wars 2019

Some time has passed since my last update, there will probably be some changes to that eventually...! This post will be about Lego! Every year when Christmas is around the corner, I treat myself to a Lego Advent Calendar, often it is the Star Wars one. For those not acquainted with the calendar, for every day in December up to the 24th it is little model or a figure that has to be put together! After the holidays I pick the models apart and make my own models, that sometimes is within the Star Wars realm. I will now share pictures of this years models!

Enjoy and take care!



Here the inspiration was not as imminent as when I started the project! Two characters or robots of some sort, perhaps working(?) for Jabba the Hut!


Here is a freighter of some sort, what is hard to see on the picture above but perhaps easier below is that I have used two shapes and laid them on top of each other and reversed them. I was very pleased with myself when I came up with that one! The design aspect of it all, aaaah!!




This structure could eventually be found on the Ewoks planet.


A land cruiser perhaps also on the Ewoks planet. I think this is the best model!


A structure from the ice planet from "Empire".


A also like this vessel that has some kind of 50s appeal to it. Episode 1...?


This is my attempt at making a freighter ship that could passed as one in the Alien-films. I tried to make it as long and as hard and bulky as I could, with these small blocks that are included in the calendar.


Some kind of radio or transmission tower...not that much inspiration here, I think that this was one of the last three models being made.


The last two models, just trying to make do with what I had! The one on the left could be one of those radio controlled things that pass by in Episode 4...! Or is it a Sand people vessel?


Some energy drilling or harvesting plant.



A fast vessel for close to the ground action!

måndag 27 januari 2020

The hardest thing I've ever said

Last november I was published in Plutonium Comics 13. My contribution to the anthology was a four page comic written by me and drawn by Jan Kustfält. The subject for the story is my father's passing. It's a personal story and Jan did a good job with the artwork.

I wrote the script a couple of years ago, I can't really remember how it all got started. Perhaps it was a way for me to get a handle on my feelings of loss and sorrow following the death of my father. I remember though that I asked Jan if he would be interested in providing the artwork for the story and he said yes. I wrote it quite quickly, and sent it over to him, and the rest is history!

You can check out the website for the anthology here:
https://plutoniumcomics.se

Take care!