Hazy Harbor

Hazy Harbor
Oil on canvas
40,5x33 cm

Wow, it's been a while now! I just finished off my year of being an intern at an architect firm and I really haven't had the time to focus on painting for a longer time while working full time. But now its summertime and that means back to business!

I am posting one of the paintings I've finished in the last couple of months above, just to prove that I haven't been away from painting completely. It is a harbor in my neighborhood, sort of. Had a lot of fun painting the reflections of the sun in the water (yes it is daytime but with the indigo could also be night). And I like it when the red underpainting shows through.

Yesterday I invested in new art supplies and got myself some new canvas that should result in at least four new paintings. Bought some new oilpaint as well, Sap Green, Cinnabar Green Light and Phtalo Turquoise Blue.

In process of mounting the canvases on the frames.. or what is the word for the kind of frame you wrap the canvas around?


And here is the final result, four canvases ready to be painted on!

Hibiscus experiment

Just a little hibiscus painting I made as an experiment with transfering an image with the grid method. Using the picture of a flower on my hibiscus tree. (It´s only 15x15 cm.) I did this picture in a few stages. Since I started out with a canvas that I had painted on before, it already had a darker background. And when painting the lines of the flower I did it with white paint to get the lights, so I kind of got a black and white underpainting. Then I put it away and let it dry for a month or so. Today I took it up again and started filling in the hues (Madder Lake Deep, Burnt Sienna) and the darks. Then I went into detail with the darks and lights, making it less flat and giving it more volume.

After that I painted over everything around the flower with a dark sepia paint and with the paint still wet I mixed in white and indigo to get some texture and light in the background as well. Now I hope this will dry in time for my grandmothers 80th birthday!

Here are some pictures of the process: