This is another painting I did the other the day. It was inspired by my last trip to New Orleans over new years to visit my boyfriend when he still lived over there. And when going so far south I´m always looking at the nature, the swamps and vegetation, the way the trees grow so differently than over here. But the one thing that I love the most: the Spanish Moss! It has a way of creating a certain atmosphere. Almost as if someone had decorated the trees with them.
One day we made a trip to a plantation house called Destrehan Plantation and it turned out to be the rainiest day with lots of thunder so we didn´t really go inside. Instead we took lots of pictures in the surrounding areas when the rain had stopped. I ended up finding a simple little wooden house with a gloomy yellow light shining over the panels of the wall, so I just had to take pictures of it. Since my camera isn´t all that good the pictures turned out dark and strange, but I just knew I had to keep them for future reference. So I´m thinking that I want to paint more of the spanish moss and Louisiana nature. We are going back in november so I´m really excited about gathering more material for painting!
Yesterday me and a friend went out on a little painting trip to Tyresta National Park, south of Stockholm. Since I haven´t really got all the gear to go plein-air painting with my oils I bought a new moleskin watercolor book and brought my aquarelles. It was such a strange feeling to paint in watercolors again! I´m so used to oil by now. But it was really good practice too, the way you have to be so sure of every brush stroke and how you can´t change anything afterwards.
I´m thinking that there are new things and techniques I can bring from oils to watercolors, and yet other things I can bring from watercolors to oils.
Didn´t really paint anything I feel like posting here though since I feel like I´m just getting started with that again. And my scanner is buried to deep under stuff anyways.
That´s all for now!
