Livsmalerier - Painting Life in Colour: juli 2013

torsdag den 25. juli 2013

New cards - original and signed

onsdag den 24. juli 2013

Manja Klemenčič at HEIR conference - Birmingham

Super presentation

Will tell you more later :-)

mandag den 22. juli 2013

HEIR conference July 2013

Absolutely great conference, as always, will tell you more later. A few paintings - took me a while to finish them - too much sun for indoor work ;-)

I know two of them are upside down - will sort it when I am back from holiday and have access to computerlustrate some sessions. Anders Jörnesten, Stefan Buettler, Anne Boultwood, Jeroen Huisman and last but definitely not least,

Manja Klemenčič

torsdag den 11. juli 2013

SRHE seminar on Teaching Inclusively

July 9th London.

As you may be able to tell - there was a lot of info in a short space of time...

Gill Crozier and Penny Jane Burke presented their research project and the 'Resource pack' they and their team had produced. Participants in the seminar discussed the different topics in groups ... A welcome approach and different to the usual seminar-ways

tirsdag den 9. juli 2013

Working with acrylics and crazy dreams

Whenever I paint on canvas - something completely different happens. Shooting stars on a blood-red sky. Angels exploding in white light and gold.

it is very different from my watercolours, right!?

onsdag den 3. juli 2013

And then there were two

I have been working on this painting for months. I wanted to tell a story about a little girl who managed all by her own. It is a classic theme so - in fear of falling into a Pippi Longstocking trap - I got stuck. Suddenly yesterday it came to me it is NOT a story about loneliness or fending for one's own... It is a story about multiple life-histories rolled into one. A girl happy to explore the world from her lighthouse home. A magical story about travel in one place. Experiencing a road trip to Paris through books a journey to far shores with human lighthouses by boat, a lovestory. To life.

The painting is approximately 15x15 cms so using a magnifying glass is essential.

As always there is a ladybird and a bike hidden somewhere. Hope you enjoy

PS MUST get a digital camera - my phone does NOT give the painting credit

What is a Livsmaleri -Life painting?

A Life painting is different kind of portrait.

Its starting point is one or more life stories, part of your everyday life or of a specific period or occasion. The watercolour portraits are painted in my personal naïvistic genre using bright colours and tiny simple brush strokes. The majority of my paintings of personal planets and universes are rather small but I paint in any size and on anything (ok not EVERYTHING but you know, artsy materials *S*). The planets' actual sizes are what suit you. The richness of detail remains high. In order to achieve this level of detail I draw and paint with the thinnest of pens and brushes using a magnifying lamp.

Sometimes a Livsmaleri is based around the favourite room in the home, filled with recognisable artefacts, references to anecdotes and other information. Sometimes the story is of a single memory, a loved house or indeed a whole life. Because of the amount of very small detail, people who have acquired my paintings often have a magnifying glass hanging next to the painting. That is good advice right there *S*

To know more: sussilouisesmith@gmail.com

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Sorry, at the moment the waiting time for a new commission is three months