How to choose or take a good reference photo Hello everybody! I am really happy that I am finding some time to post some blogs again. ( I took this material from my “Beautiful Faces” course so it was quick to do.) When we look for a good photo we often fall for the photos with… Read More
My best holiday souvenirs are things we find in nature. I love traveling and nowadays I think about it a lot, I make sure I do by placing souvenirs around in my home. When I travel far I most often bring back something I pick up from the ground. I will find a beautiful flower or I… Read More
I have drawn a little old house in Juan Les Pins, Cote dÀzur, France as they tock it down My best sketchbook trip tips At the moment I’m in the middle of sorting out stuff on my hard drive and found this video of my sketchbook, that I haven´t shown to anybody. Watching it again,… Read More
I use gouache and watercolor in this painting. Hello! Here is a video I made painting a young woman from a photo found in the Sktchy app, using gouache and watercolor together. The cool thing with the gouache is that you can work more intuitively and freely than watercolor. You can paint over and over until you… Read More
Happy Easter! Easter here in Norway is the world’s longest Easter holiday. It´s a time to go skiing in the mountain and stay all day long outdoor in the fresh air, or to relax with family and friends in a cabin just talking, reading crime novels, and playing Yahtzee. Today I am posting some photos and DIY from earlier blog posts. And if you don’t have much… Read More
Gouache and watercolors are like sisters and brothers. In a way, you can say that gouache is like the strong brother and watercolor is the intelligent pretty sister. While gouache is up for some action, watercolor wants to flirt in the old fashion way. Although they are both water-based, after you have had a… Read More
Choose Your Paint Brushes I am sketching upstairs in this lovely cafe in Mae Hong Son. (January 2020) We went on a small airplane from Chang Mai to Mae Hong Son which has a tiny airport with just two flights per day. (In Thailand) Of course I brought my watercolors brushes and paints and there were… Read More
Sketching in a bar with a view over the Nam Ou River (“rice bowl river”) in Laos Last spring I went to Laos, now one year later I feel extremely lucky to have made the trip to Asia just like we planed it to go. My favorite part of the 14 weeks must be the river trips in… Read More
You can use your favourite coffee to create beautiful art work Happy New Year everyone! This week I have been painting with coffee to prepare for my students´ home assignments. I work in a culture school in Norway teaching kids and teenagers art. And, like a lot of the places in the world we are… Read More
Sketching or camera? A journey is special. A few days in a special place, that you want to remember for as long as possible. Sketching is a great alternative to the camera. It is much easier to take a photo, but it is so much more rewarding to make a sketch or painting. Pointing a… Read More
Chiang Mai is a lovely city up in the north of Thailand. I went on a fantastic trip from January till March. I was very lucky to get to visit South East Asia before the Coronavirus shut down the world. There, my partner and I came across a wonderful quirky museum just outside the old city in Chang… Read More
Wat Phan Tao Sometimes you are just lucky and we were lucky to get to Chiang Mai before Corona hit Europa. Thailand is full of surprises every day has something new to offer, Chiang Mai is a lovely city up in the north of Thailand. Our visit to Wat Phan Tao coincided with a Buddhist ceremony… Read More
Hello everybody! Before leaving Thailand we wanted to get a good guidebook for Laos. We couldn’t find any at the bookstores in the town, but we found Peter from Germany who has converted a couple of rooms of his home into a secomd hand book store with books in German, French Scandinavian and lots of… Read More
My first 20 days in Thailand has been great What an amazing day tour of the area around Mai Hong Son where we visited hill tribe villages with coffee and tea plantations, teak forest, a bamboo bridge to a temple, a waterfall, a fish cave a short visit to Myanmar and more. Many of the… Read More
Here is a very cool place it visit in Bangkok, especially if you like cats. Here is a little postcard from Thailand. At the moment I am travelling around Asia for some time. I been inspired to make some new drawings, I have used my iPad for these illustrations. My favourite app for artworks is… Read More
What to look for in a watercolor brush and why Hello, hello! Have you noticed this? That the nice thing about watercolors is that you don’t really have to spend much money to get started. You can choose from a good selection of good quality supplies. Luckily in watercolors, it is not difficult to find cheap… Read More
Scary, sweet peppers – the perfect Halloween-meal! Hello! Everybody. I found another Norwegian called Eva living in France, really close to the Matisse house in Vence and she will be guest posting here today. Eva has a great blog (in Norwegian) She is posting beautiful photos and mouth-watering recipes based on the ingredients available in her… Read More
Hello, everybody! Here we are in the Matisse Villa in Vence again. Today most people have gone on the tour to see the Picasso “War and Peace” Chapel and pottery museum beside it. This week all the students are Norwegian, so we are doing the classes in Norsk instead of English. If you like… Read More
It is under a month until we are in Vence again?? There are so many things to look forward to but one of my favorites is the Salad Niçoise. You will find lots of discussion about what goes into a salad Niçoise. My recipe uses only local ingredients But what makes this salad unusual is… Read More
A peep behind the scenes. It is time to introduce you to Gerry In 2015 Gerry and I started this blog and in 2017 we held the first painting classes in Vence in France. Gerry looks after the catering and I am teaching. Everything else we do together. Gerry is Irish and currently lives in… Read More