Im painting and painting...

Im enjoying the summer, having all the day just for me and my paint.

Three more weeks and then Ill start working again.

I took a little class last week, Birds on Birds taught by Alison O´Donoghue.

I love the new method I learned there and have been mixing it with my art in my new paintings which I cant show you yet as they are going to be on an exhibition. Ill tell you all about later. 

But I can show you the one I did practising..

This one is the first one I made, finished and signed :)

That one is my second one and already in frame :)

The third and last one is painted on Camembert cheese wooden box. I love this one round and funny. 

I love this method and soon i can show you how I have used in my art with my beautiful lovely ladies :)

Have a great day

Namaste

Painting in the sun

Yesterday we had a beautiful weather in Iceland so

I took my canvas out and did a little painting in the sun.

Just if we could get more sunny days here, today it is cold and no sun.. so Im painting inside..

 I was playing with ink, stencils and paint..

Not sure about the outcome, I'm not finished yet.

The ink did dry fast in the sun.

Played a little with hot and cold colours.

Drawing a girl.

Adding outlines to my Mandala girl.

Have a nice week

Namaste

Painting over one more time :)

I had an old and ugly painting, very dark colors and just not to look at..

So I got my gesso and painted over with my gesso..

Now I had a white canvas

Now it was time to start painting, first with yellow and orange,

 then red, turning the canvas all the time..

then it was the blue and green.

And when dry I started drawing

I did draw a girl, a girl with a bird..

Not new for me, it is always a girl and a bird..

Now it was time to bring some color to the face and to the bird..

Here she was almost done..

And here she is, beautiful and bright.

The size is 40x100

Acryl on canvas

Love this painting

Have a beautiful day

Namaste

Painting elephants..

Im taking a class with Wyanne Thompson, You and me.

I have learned to use Masking fluid with ink and watercolor.

I love those white lines..

This is my first try.

Cutting out the elephant from scrapbook paper and painting with ink.

This is my second one.

I did use tape where there is a blue color in the grass.. I was going to paint the elephants pink but without thinking i did paint them gray...

Making this one I did use watercolor.

The last one I did paint on canvas or spray with ink.

Now I did paint my elephant pink and I did some decoration with a poca pen.

Hope you like what you see, have a great weekend.

Namaste

My Exhibition year 2014

Those photos are from my Exhibition at Kaffitár Coffeehouse 

in my hometown Keflavík.

The Exhibition started on Friday and is going to last to 22/9 2014.

Here I have 11 30x40 cm Mixed Media paintings.

The Coffeehouse invited all gests to taste great coffee drinks and cold tea drinks, they did also have cakes and all kind of snacks for the guests.

The owner of the coffeehouse and the coffee master standing beside my favorite panting 150 x 150 cm big.

My guestbook and my cards ready for the guests.

Here you can see one of my 80 x 100 cm big paintings.

Hope that you like what you see, Ill add more photos later.

Have a wonderful day

Namaste 

Im working on a big, big, big canvas...

This one is so big... 150x150 cm 

I have to stand on my toes to reach to the top while painting.

In june 2. Im going to be one of 26 people taking part in exhibition in Harpan,

the new concert and conference center in Reykjavík, Iceland

..... my painting is going to be on the wall in this awesome building.....

can you believe that... 

I have started painting, Im going to paint using the style I learned from Flora Bowley class

and Im so sorry but Im not going to post a photo until the opening of the exhibition in beginning of June.

While my painting is drying between layers I knit... I love to knit and crochet.

I made this doll for my little princess granddaughter.

And I made another one for a friend.

Have started on a new one but that is a boy in blue colors.

Ill post a photo when finished.

And more things are happening.

I was featured in an Indian Magazine, March 2014. 

The name of the Magazine is Indian Talent Magazine.

You can find me on page 34-35.

Have a beautiful weekend :)

Namaste

Merry Christmas to all of you and a happy new year.

First of all I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

After blogging only for two year and having over 25.000 visitors is unbelievable for me. Im so happy for every visit I get, so thank you all.

I have been doing just a little painting lately. 

I painted a serie of angels.

They are small paintings, 10x10 and I love them.

This time they all have butterfly wings and a pink dress.

Peace (sold)

I did change this one form fearless to love for a customer 

(sold)

Blossom

Honesty

Kindness (sold)

My blue angel is from a painting with two angels but I had only finished one of them so next week I can show you the whole painting.

Have a wonderful week all of you and a happy PPF.

Namaste

My painting makes me a little sad..

I was asked to paint a painting. 

A girl, a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a teacher, a beautiful person died, she was young, to young to die.

From the moment I was asked I knew how I wanted my painting to look like but was not sure that the people who asked me would like a painting like that.

 The day before I had made sketches of few paintings and the first one was the one I wanted to paint.

I don´t paint for people, I paint for myself, hoping someone else is going to like my painting and if they buy, I´m very happy.

I did start.

And I did paint.

I did not stand up for 5 hours, I wanted to finish my work, so I would have time to make another one, very different, If they did not like my painting.

I worked two more hours in the evening and then the painting was ready.

I was very happy with my work and I so hoped they would like my painting.

They did, they loved my painting.

They gave it away to the girls coworkers.

They loved my painting to.

Hope you like my painting too.

Happy PPF and Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.

Namaste.

It is friday again..

Last weeks I have made these 3, love each and everyone of them.

they are painted with acryl on canvas.

As you know then Im taking classes all the time and in these paintings I can see the technic I have learned from few of my classes and I love to see how I mix all of them together to make my own style.

I love little birds so I had to have birds in my painting. It is always the same type of bird but with a different decorations.

I have one more canvas like these so Im going to make one more, have already made the sketch for it.

My paper maché lady is not ready yet. I have brought her home so I have her on my desk and se is ready to get her face done.

Now I have diary for year 2014 ready for sale as well as I have sketchbooks and notebooks.

when Im not painting Im knitting or crocheting. This time Im making some squares for 

´Lily´ - love in the language of yarn. 

A beautiful project for the children in Syria. 

  

I bought me a new book, it just arrived but it is a beautiful book from Mindy Murphy Lacefield, I highly recommend it if you love to look at others art, she also shows us the way she creates her girls. 

Hope you all have a beautiful weekend and happy PPF to you :)

I did take a class with Mystele my favorite girl..

As I was looking through my groups I found a wonderful class with Mystele and it was a free one.. not bad..

The class was about how to use Chalk Pastel ... with Gesso.

First I tried to make one but it was not working so I did try again.

After talking to Mystele I started slowly, using a good brush trying to avoid 

making a mess.

And it worked...

Im happy with the one I made and I have started on another painting using the same method.

This one is almost done..... I have to work a little more on the colors..

For me it is difficult to make a lady with small or tiny hands or a big head, 

Im always trying to play with my paintings.... 

Tell me what you think...

Have a beautiful day all of you and a happy PPF to all of you :)