From real life to 'Livsmaleri'

fredag den 26. juni 2015

From real life to 'Livsmaleri'

One of the things I enjoy the most when I am painting a Livsmaleri for a person or a family is to include details from their everyday lives, but with a twist. So the details are both easily recognisable and at the same time, something completely different.

See what I mean?

This is a Klimt from a beautiful kitchen in North Yorkshire

This is a Victorian semi in North Yorkshire

This is a lovely cottage in the shadow of The Cow and Calf, West Yorkshire

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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*

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Livsmalerier - Painting Life in Colour

fredag den 26. juni 2015