Sofia, Kirstoffer, Tuva and I just returned from having dinner at Sofia's parent's place. I don't think I've ever eaten as much food in my entire life- sure makes up for the spaghetti and scrambled eggs fiasco from last week.
This morning, my alarm clock went off at the ungodly hour of 6:30 and I was so tempted to hit snooze and go back to sleep. But, I managed to drag my sorry rear out of bed and head to the porch for some early morning painting. The light in the mornings and evenings is best for plein air painting because of the strong shadows.
It took about 2 minutes for me to shake the tiredness from my head and start getting excited to paint my scene of three houses (the one I have been sketching for a few days). My 'house' theme this week has kept me busy and (somewhat) focused.
Up went my easel, and out came my paints, and in went my earbuds... time to hit the canvas with some serious attitude. My artistic progress has been a little slow here as I have spent the past few days getting some sleep and spending quality time with family. When given the choice between painting and being with my family, I will always choose family...always. With that said, when it's time to paint, I really need to dive in and get going.
Brad Paiseley played loudly in my ears while I painted this morning, reminding me of home and making me determined to 'cowgirl up' and paint even though I sometimes don't feel like an all-star artist. I painted for a good hour before I reached a good stopping point- by no means finished-... plus, the wind had kicked up and was threatening to scatter my art supplies all across Sweden.
The rest of the day was spent with family- and, since it was raining for the rest of the day, I just started a silly little sketch of a ceramic chicken egg-cup- which we use each morning to hold our soft-boiled eggs.
This evening, before heading out to dinner, I caught a little bit of Disney's Dumbo in Swedish. Let me tell you, even though the movie is in another language, I still cried at the part when Dumbo's mom rocks him to sleep from her jail cell. SO SAD!!!... and I was still creeped-out by the clowns... some things don't need translating.
Happy Thursday to my friends and family at home and all my followers scattered around the world.
Here's some photos for you:
Setting up to paint
My inspiration
Sketching to figure things out
Another value map
(sorry about it being sideways)
When my apron goes on, I mean business!
Paints are mixed and read to go
Ready to do small color sketches
Value and color sketch
Getting started on the final (big) one
Unfinished random sketch...emphasis on the 'unfinished' and 'random' part
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