ART - SCHMART!

Skärgårdsmålaren...

2010-11-02T10:18:00.000+01:00

15 down, 5 to go...

Work in progress..

2010-10-21T20:28:00.000+02:00

Höststorm utanför - då är det lätt att målningarna blir så här vildsinta!

Check out my HipstaPrint

2010-09-19T13:06:00.000+02:00

Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Kaimal Mark II
Flash: Off
Film: Kodot Verichrome

Runny watercolor 25/08/10

2010-08-25T19:05:00.000+02:00

A couple of Sicily watercolors!

2010-08-18T20:53:00.000+02:00

Sicily was full of raw,half-finished buildings. Perfect subject matter for watercolors!

Målarkurs

2008-02-21T13:58:00.002+01:00

Nu har jag varit på kurs på Gerlesborgsskolan i Bohuslän för Hasse Karlsson. Något jag verkligen kan rekommendera om man vill måla i sex dagar med avbrott bara för jättegod mat och sömn.
Hasse var en grymt bra lärare som hade genomgångar varje dag och flitigt med egna demonstrationer. Han var väldigt frikostig när det gällde att dela med sig av sina tips.

Här ovan är lite av det jag målade på kursen! Stilleben, rostiga gamla grejer och slitna träskor. Samt de berömda magasinsbyggnaderna.

Boxes

2008-01-30T11:01:00.000+01:00

A bunch of old fishing boxes

Tippen

2008-01-28T11:23:00.001+01:00

A night view of my favourite powerwalk route. I brought the camera with me, we saw the potential and almost ran the last part towards the sea, and our suspicions were correct, the sunset was amazing!!

Two paintings painted side by side.

2008-01-27T22:43:00.000+01:00

These two have a very Northern feeling to them even though I painted them on Gran Canaria.
Very abstract, but to me the content is obvious. A rough sea.

Summer evening

2008-01-25T19:35:00.001+01:00

I like how the water turned out in this one. It's like a really still summer evening with just a hint of a breeze stirring the water.

Lucky

2008-01-24T20:19:00.001+01:00

A small one that I got lucky with. I thought it was beyond all rescue, especially considerating the big blob of Permanent Rose. But somehow things just started going my way. And this is the result. I think the pink kinda adds to the mood in the picture..

Vita i vattnet.

2008-01-22T21:45:00.001+01:00

Marint tema kan ju lätt bli lite tjatigt. Men om målningarna är abstraherade och kontrastrika så är de lite mer intressanta. Jag promenerar förbi en sån här liten vit prick ofta, och den drar verkligen blickarna till sig.

2007 yet again

2008-01-21T11:57:00.001+01:00

Ännu mer 2007

2008-01-20T19:32:00.000+01:00

mer 2007

2008-01-19T13:57:00.000+01:00

De här kvällsbilderna fick rätt härligt ljus..

några granar...

Lite blå tavlor..

Stolpar i vattnet
En gård i Fjärås.

2007 var ett år då jag målade mycket.

2008-01-18T23:05:00.000+01:00

Bland annat alptoppar...
hus...
Gamla båtprylar. Den här är gjord på FEM minuter! Jag gick en rolig kurs hos Lena Amstrand ute på Styrsö. Vi hade hysteriska snabb-stilleben där motivet obarmhärtigt togs bort när fem minuter hade gått och ersattes av något annat. Först fick man nästan andnöd men, liksom i kroki så jobbade man upp nåt slags seende så att det gick som en dans tillslut. Målningar blir oftast bäst när det går snabbt och utan för mycket ältande.
Den här är jag förtjust i, "Frostbett" heter den och var en av de första jag hängde på Galleri Backlund. Man kan nästan se hur vattnet precis börjat frysa..

2008 hittills

2008-01-17T12:04:00.000+01:00

Nu när jag äntligen fått min hemsida up and running (om än nätt och jämnt) så känns det ju inte mer än rätt att blogga lite konst här också. Den här bloggen har sovit för länge.
Speciellt när jag målar som en tok och det finns massor att posta!

Här kommer lite av det jag hunnit med hittills iår.

En stuga i skogsbrynet. Den här gillar jag bäst för det blå taket och den gula himlen "sjunger" intill varandra.

Fjällmotiv. Åh jag vill åka till fjällen och måla live!

Några försök med blåmusslor, hittade massor häromdagen.

Jag har börjat tvinga mig själv att bli bekväm med hus i målningarna. Det är ju litet beklämmande att nästan vara arkitekt och inte våga måla hus..

Lite knoppar.

Motiv från Frölunda, ett radhusområde jag promenerade förbi häromdagen och fotade.

Motiv från huvudet. Men klart Bohuslän - inspirerat.

Det var allt för nu! Tänkte posta litet från 2007 också, tills jag gör det kan man kolla på www.rebeccaelfast.com.

Men då får man inte mina insiktsfulla kommentarer. Det är nästan som en dvd.
Over and out!

For a kid

2007-06-15T11:24:00.000+02:00

A colleague of mine placed an order of two paintings for her kids. This is one of them.

Here kitty

2007-06-15T01:28:00.001+02:00

This is a beautiful cat that comes to visit every now and again. He is gray with real intense yellow eyes. Makes a good subject both for photography and painting.

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Ok. This is the last time I tell yall where to click. From now on I'll be consistant. Click ON the image.

Landscape spree

2007-06-15T01:20:00.000+02:00

More watercolors are coming

2007-06-15T01:09:00.000+02:00

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This has been one of my more productive years so far. Which is good for me. I can feel it. I need to paint.

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Landscape

2007-02-18T19:37:00.000+01:00

Orange and blue.. yummy

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Greenery

2007-02-17T13:25:00.000+01:00

is hard to do without everything getting messy or too detailed.
A quick try..

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Butt

2007-02-07T12:38:00.000+01:00

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I tried two variations of the same theme.

Christmas trees..

2007-02-03T18:07:00.000+01:00

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Seascape

2007-02-02T12:36:00.000+01:00

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Winter wonderland

2007-02-01T12:52:00.000+01:00

I've become set on learning how to paint landscapes. I wanna be able to draw and paint natural elements such as trees or mountains with my eyes closed. I want to learn a simple, minimalistic way of showing the landscape with as few brushstrokes as possible.

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Out with the old, in with the new!

2007-01-31T22:02:00.000+01:00

Yup, that pretty much concludes my old stuff.
Tomorrow I will be back with the new ones!!!

A present...

2007-01-31T21:59:00.000+01:00

...for a dear friend.
Yes, that is a rolled-up sock. I keep my camera in it, ok?

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Wacom experiments

2007-01-31T21:46:00.000+01:00

The lovely program ArtRage.

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Alphabet picture

2007-01-31T21:37:00.000+01:00

This is an alphabet picture I did to learn Illustrator. I made it for my godchild, but am thinking about finding a way to produce and sell it...

colors are a bit off, might post a better one soon

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Narcissos

2007-01-31T21:25:00.000+01:00

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Zigzag

2007-01-31T21:15:00.000+01:00

a little paper art

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ok. still on the old ones

2007-01-31T20:58:00.000+01:00

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The oblong collection...

2007-01-31T20:27:00.000+01:00

Here are some acrylics that I did for a school project. Each stands about a metre tall, I love working in this format!

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the girl
the boy
the landscape
the tree
the friends
the bubbles
the thingy
the face
the secretary

Yada yada

2007-01-31T20:23:00.000+01:00

more old stuff

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Old stuff again

2007-01-31T19:58:00.000+01:00

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More oldies

2007-01-31T19:41:00.000+01:00

Did I mention that I love the ocean?
I can't imagine ever living further than a bikeride from the sea, something about it is just so fundamentally good for you. Knowumsayin?

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even more.

2007-01-31T19:17:00.001+01:00

have to get rid of the old stuff so I can start showing the new...

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ok, now for some really old stuff. Oil pastels from 2000.

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some more pics...

2007-01-31T19:07:00.000+01:00

hey, I've been lazy with the posting the last...hmm..year and a half.
But I have been really productive. Thanks to my new invention.
I call it " watching series or movies while you paint in front of the computer"!

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this is from foundphotos. inspiration is everywhere!

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egg tempera on cardboard, live model. larger here

paper cutout.

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Backatorp

2007-01-31T18:58:00.000+01:00

One of the first things I did on my internship. It didn't get used, but I kinda like it.
Architecture and watercolor is really hard to combine. I'd better look into that...

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My church

2005-06-11T14:32:00.000+02:00

Here is the final result of my school project. I will later add some photos of the cardboard model.
This is a view of the building from a mountain by the church:
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The plan:
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The principle of how the building (hopefully) will work:

This is a section cut through the altar room and the room outside:
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Here are some details (belltower, altar and the thing you dip the babies in)

a facade seen from the south
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a night pic
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another night pic from within the atrium
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View from within the altar room
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View from a group activity room

For those of you who want to know more (and speak Swedish), check out my presentation here
page one
page two
page three
page four
page five
page six
page seven

Enjoy!

Gorillas

2005-05-17T19:18:00.000+02:00

I had a drawing session with a friend of mine the other day, the study object was gorillas. We image-Googled like crazy to get as many references as possible. We tried to exaggerate the features that are typical for these lovely creatures.
They have such strange physique, gorillas, their posture is really weird and their facial bone strucure (or is that fat?) is impossible to understand with a quick look.

Some of my drawings:

My friend and I agreed that we should do this more often, drawing with themes. You learn a LOT about how things look. I hope we will get around to it soon.

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"D"

2005-05-08T16:48:00.000+02:00

My classmate, Erik, asked me the other day to draw a couple of hands holding a "D", as a header for his photoblog (which is nowhere near daily, but the photos are lovely)
We took a couple of pictures with us holding a paper cutout and I started to draw with them as reference. I think it turned out a bit Escher-esque ("drawing hands") even though there is no loop or illusion. Take a look here for more Escher.

Visit daily to see the final result (and, of course, the great photos..)
And, if you want to see these pics larger, do that here and here.

Church

2005-04-24T14:03:00.000+02:00

The project in school at the moment is to design a church. A fun but difficult task... what should a church be nowadays to make people go there?

Anyways, to study the treatment of the daylight in a church building, we were sent off to different churches. My excursion went to Klippan, Skåne, and St Petri church by Sigurd Lewerentz.It's an amazing church, very dark and mysterious but not threatening. These sketches show how the window glass is applied to the outside of the wall, hence invisible from the inside.

Learn more about the church here and here.

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Voutch!

2005-04-13T19:31:00.000+02:00

When I was in Paris, I was amazed at the popularity of graphic novels and that kinda stuff. Among adults! Everyone reads them on the metro, I never saw that on the trams of Gothenburg. Most bookstores (Fnac is a great one) have a huge department of graphic novels.

While browsing the shelves of the Virgin Megastore, I came across this guy Voutch. One frame cartoon strips collected into several books.
Lemme tell you...this is a guy who knows his colors.
Every picture has a lovely mood and the colors are subtle with the occasional pop. And the cartoons are funny too, this is a reason to practice one's French!

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A totally random pic...

2005-04-07T20:04:00.000+02:00

..to celebrate my return from Paris. This is a cute couple that I found somewhere on the www, transformed by me into graphite on paper. If you recognize yourselves, cute couple, lemme know what you think of the pic.

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A yellow guy for Easter

2005-03-25T12:25:00.000+01:00

Happy Easter everybody!

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A lovely lady in a nice swimsuit.

2005-03-24T20:09:00.000+01:00

It's fun to use both pencil and pens and ink of different kinds. Two different expressions combined into one drawing!

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Seascape

2005-03-22T21:37:00.000+01:00

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Andrew Loomis.

2005-03-21T20:12:00.000+01:00

This is an amazing guy if you're into figure drawing, check him out. Several of his books are available online here, which is good. I can totally get lost for hours in here...

Mountain fog

2005-03-20T21:52:00.000+01:00

Small watercolor painting I did a couple of weeks ago.
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She-male Marilyn impersonator...

2005-03-20T13:20:00.000+01:00

Another quick drawing attempt.. This one is nice as such, but there is absolutely no similarity to the reference. Well, that's part of the charm, isn't it? I haven't drawn from pics in ages and it really shows. The eye-hand coordination withers over time if it's not maintained. The best practice is live models and MANY quick sketches. I took an evening class once and I could really feel the progress rushing through me from one week to another.
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Upside down.

2005-03-20T13:13:00.000+01:00

Drawing stuff from a reference picture can be real hard. Especially if you're trying to do a self portrait. You have all these thoughts on how you look that can really disturb the process of seeing and drawing. A tip is to put the reference upside-down and draw like that.
Here's my first attempt to capture myself. I am semi-pleased with the similarity. But the upside-down thing is really interesting. I think I'll try it some more.

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Landscape

2005-03-19T12:25:00.000+01:00

Landscape painting is fun. And kinda hard. Light and mood is hard to get the way you want it.
I recently checked out Terragalleria for inspiration, it's a great site with pictures from lots of national parks.

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Some trees..

2005-03-18T14:56:00.000+01:00

I often find green colors hard to work with. Although the composition is a bit boring on this one, I am quite happy with how the greens behaved.

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More poppies for my mother.

2005-03-18T05:59:00.000+01:00

It's hard to get all the folds of the flowers right. Here's another try.
This one I think will end up as a birthday gift from my mother to a friend of hers.

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Poppies for my mother.

2005-03-16T14:46:00.000+01:00

My green-fingered mother has a thing for poppies. I can understand her.
They're so thin and papery and handle the light in a fantastic way. Plus it seems that they can grow just about anywhere. When I was in Rome there were poppies growing on the freeway, right on the side of the road.

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Another quick nude

2005-03-15T19:05:00.000+01:00

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Watercolor is hard to get in the right places, although you shouldn't try too hard to get it there either..
The body is allright, the face got a bit messy.

I was inspired by a picture from xupacabras, a lovely photoblog about which I know nothing. Except that it's lovely.

Lovely linework...

2005-03-13T18:55:00.000+01:00

...can be found in the works of Egon Schiele (Austrian artist 1890 - 1918) . His pictures may be a bit kinky (he was actually arrested for that) , but they're still very beautiful and sensitive. I love how the colors are used to make the pictures pop. And the lines! Lines like this are rarely seen. They are very vivid, a bit cocky even. Still, they describe the form in a fantastic way. A true source of inspiration if you're interested in "anatomy". (hardy har har...)

Check out some more of his stuff HERE.

a couple of quick nudes...

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...to catch the eye of y'all.

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Welcome dear readers and viewers.

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I love to draw and paint!
Preferably there is a message or purpose within the artwork, but pure study of the medium entertains me a lot as well. I find drawing and painting relaxing, but still challenging, a sweet meditation if you will. Here you will be able to see my attempts to get a grasp of watercolor, acrylics, digital art and a bunch of other stuff... comments are welcome.

Oh, and for those of you who want to know more about me, behold my other blog:

http://rebeccommended.blogspot.com