In and out of the digital screens.
Friday 20
Day twenty – Saturday March 3 – 2018. Starting at 15:30
About an hour
30cm x 30cm
Oils
A fight with low temperatures and freezing wind!
Friday 19
Day nineteen – Friday February 16 – 2018. Starting at 14:30
One and a half hour snowshoeing in a steep terrain.
About two hours painting
30cm x 30cm
Oils
My aim for this painting was to try to recreate the lighting in the background as I saw it. In order to do that I had to paint the snow in the foreground much darker than it appeared in front of me. The sun shone for quite short periods of time and I painted the brightest colours when the sun shone. The darker colours would be possible to see anyway, no matter the sun, so I waited with them.
The landscape was absolutely breath-taking, but I had a quite dark mind this day. I was filled with negative thinking – on social matters.
Friday 18
Day eighteen – Friday February 9 – 2018. Starting at 15:20
About an hour
30cm x 30cm
Oils
Ecstatic experience! The painting is not good, but I wouldn’t missed this Friday afternoon! Heavy snowfall. Still sitting there painting dry and warm. Ecstatic!
Friday 17
Day seventeen – Sunday January 28 – 2018. Starting at 14:15
2 hours
30cm x 30cm
Oils
A new and windy thaw. It’s surely still January, but it feels like spring-time. This Friday I was occupied with work and examining my pupils, so I had to go out painting in the weekend, Sunday.
Friday 16
Day sixteen – Sunday January 21 – 2018. Starting at 15:00
1 hour, 40 min
30cm x 30cm
Oils
One hour hiking starting at just a thin layer of snow on the ground. Perfect for boots. Ending in snow more than knee deep. Not suited for boots only at all.
Getting of the wet inner layer of wool. New dry clothing, layer upon layer.
Really, really dissatisfied with the result, but I had to stop in the end as light got dimmer and dimmer.
Friday 15
Day fifteen – Friday January 12 – 2018. Starting at 14:40
1 hour, 45 min
30cm x 30cm
Oils
I thought it was the worst painting this far in the project, after finishing it, but perhaps it brought me into a different and interesting new path.
I was tired and I felt like the chill became a part of my body. I couldn’t manage to paint in a concentrated and detailed manner. I flushed the paint all over the painting-board with more and more rapid movements.
Perhaps I can use this approach in later paintings to make them more emotionally involving? Perhaps I could combine the details and the roughness?
Could it be that I had to get into this situation to get to the point where I was pushing my own boundaries?
Friday 14
Day Fourteen – Friday January 5 – 2018. Starting at 15:00
1 hour, 40 min
30cm x 30cm
Oils
Thirty minutes cycling to work before dawn. Teaching until 12:30. 12:45 cycling about an hour with a heavy loaded bike trolley. Putting the load on my back in a rucksack. Hiking uphill about half an hour. Organizing my stuff. Painting one hour and forty minutes. Dusk. Firing my headlamp. Hiking about twenty minutes back to my bike in the dark. Cycling a short half an hour.
Who needs an indoor gym!?
Friday 13 – New Year!
Day thirteen– Monday january 1 – 2018. Starting at 14:30
1 hour, 45 min
30cm x 30cm
Oils
No preliminary drawing, just direct painting alla prima from top to bottom.
Perhaps the hardest challenge this far in the project.
Friday 12
Day twelve – Tuesday december 19 – 2017. Starting at 13:50
1 hour, 20 min
30cm x 30cm
Oils
Friday 11
Day eleven – Sunday december 10 – 2017. Starting at 14:30
1 hour, 10 min
30cm x 30cm
Oils