Remember those days when you were down at the beach as a kid? Picking up a stick, starting to draw stuff in the sand. Then you realized you'd made the drawing to close to the water. The tide ominously reaching towards it. Before, inevitably, it washed it all away. This digital painting/drawing is just like…
Continue reading ➞ A Doodle While Deciding
To get a clear view of where you are, you need to know where you started. At least I guess that's true. Well, I was browsing through my media library on wordpress the other day. And suddenly I'd reached the bottom. Not in the depressing way it might sound like.. The bottom being my first…
Continue reading ➞ Looking Back To Where It Started
This is the result of a digital painting I started on, having no clue about what I wanted to paint. It started, like it often has recently, by painting some waves and a ship. But it just didn't feel right. And it didn't look right either. So I went in another direction. The mast of…
Continue reading ➞ A Last Meal – The Result of No Plan
I've been painting a lot of old sailing ships lately. It has just been too fun to stop. So here is another one, being led the way by one of those old, rough seabirds. Now, however, I feel that I've produced all my sailing ship ambitions for a while. So there might just be a…
Continue reading ➞ That Way – Another One of Those Sailing Ships
I'm a bit lost for words today. Not because I'm surprised, angry, sad or excited. They are just missing, in an empty kind of feeling. Not empty in a bad way. Just empty. I still want to post a painting, though. A painting that doesn't need too many words. Just a painting that is what…
Continue reading ➞ A Painting With Few Words
This is a watercolour painting that looks a bit messy. Or maybe it just looks a bit creepy. Or maybe both. Are there some cool features in there as well? I don't know. I can't decide. In my mind, it looks like a scary path on a dark autumn night. A place where I would…
Continue reading ➞ Something – But I Don’t Know What
This digital painting was made without the following thoughts in mind. But when I looked at it afterwards, I felt that it resonated with them. And the thought is, more precisely, how good it is to have taken a step back. A step to where I actually belong at the moment. A lot of fleeting…
Continue reading ➞ Still Fishing – The Freedom of Not Selling, For Someone Who Doesn’t Sell
There is a myth here in Norway, that tourists come to us expecting to see polar bears walking around in the streets. I assume the myth is quite exaggerated, but it's a fun one. We don't have polar bears on the mainland, to be clear, but you can find them on the island Svalbard. Needless…
Continue reading ➞ Winter Night – My First Polar Bear!
I wrote in my last post about how much fun I had painting a ship. One of those old ships, that looks like they've been sailing for years on end. Well, there was no doubt in my mind that I need to paint another one. And I needed to do it straight away. This version…
Continue reading ➞ Foam and Friends – Another Ship
I've been using Procreate a lot lately, making digital paintings. It's so easy to pick up, when I don't have the motivation to pull out all the supplies I need for physical mediums. A way to keep creating, no matter where you are. Anyway, a lot of my paintings have been made using different types…
Continue reading ➞ My Ship – Making Digital Look Less Digital
