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favorite subjects
Happy 2025! Here are some paintings I started over Christmas week of my four kids. i hadn’t painted them in a while, and Im trying to get a round of them out at least evert couple years to document their progress. Even though it is not easy, they are def my favorite things to paint. It's a fun challenge because i know their little faces so well. Two of them are 18x18 inches, and two…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Garden Birds
January 6, 2025 - I am starting a new project: Garden Birds. Its a fully illustrated book about the 50 most common birds in the garden in Scandinavia. There is a lot of those books out there, but whats different with this one is that its not a field guide its more an inspirational book that shows all the interesting little behaviors and details about birds that most people know. In order for me to capture all these details I have started sketching in on each species. I started with Wrens; my favorite bird. And moved on to Robin. This week I am doing house sparrow and sparrow hawk. The plan is to sketch and discover my way through all of the 50 birds, combine it with field studies and photos of ordinary birds doing ordinary bird things. After…
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