Seaweed.

Having a great imagination can be very helpful when you paint the "intuitive" way.

Painting these little seaweed creatures really made me smile since they suddenly appeared out of a purple "mistake".

I now embrace this sentence: 

In art there are no mistakes, only opportunities for creativity. 

"Seaweed"

Golden Fluid:

Green Gold

Permanent Violet Dark

Titanium White

Carbon Black

Golden Heavy Body:

Sap Green Hue

Liquitex Ink:

Titanium White

Adirondack Alcohol Ink:

Lettuce

White Sharpie

Pilot Ink pen

Love You to the Moon and Back.

I'm still playing on the Watercolor paper that I love so much: 300g/m2 and size A3.

Today's painting is inspired by our trip to Sweden this weekend. My husband and I visited our oldest daughter at Lund University were she has been living for the past 4 years. We are so looking forward to having her home for the summer, before she moves to Edinburgh, Scotland.

This painting is for you, Ida!

"Love You to the Moon and Back"

The Mad Dog.

I must make it clear: Stevie, our lovely Jack Russell Terrier has not modelled for this painting.

He's not mad at all, just a little stubborn.

"Stevie"

"The Mad Dog"

Starfish and the Little Creature.

Ever since I started Flora Bowley's "Brave Intuitive You" class, my paintings have been all about play and colors.
These past weeks I've really embraced Flora's idea about letting go of expectation and being brave enough to try something outside my comfort zone.
My color choices have been a lot bolder.
Not having a plan when I start out with a blank canvas or watercolor paper is actually very scary at first.
But I have found that it gives me the freedom to relax and be me. 

"Starfish and The little Creature"

Canvas 30x40 cm.

Do you see the Little Creature?

Water Bubbles.

Today I have tried out a new color combination. Teal, blue, gray, purple and silver mixed in with white to get a lighter shade.
Inspired by the weather forecast in the southern parts of Norway: rain.

"Water Bubbles"

The Circus Butterfly.

This painting was a real challenge. 
I started out with a totally different colour scheme than what I ended up with. That's what I like about working with acrylic paint: if you don't like, just let it dry and start all over again. Working on thick watercolor paper also makes it a lot easier. I've learned that the thicker the paper, the more paint, water and other media is absorbed. So if you want to try painting on paper, I would recommend going for a thickness of at least 300g/m2.

"The Circus Butterfly"

The Blue Cottage.

This painting was my very first attempt at Mixed Media on Watercolor paper size A3 300g/m2.
My favorite shades of blue, which I listed yesterday, have also been used here.

"The Blue Cottage"