Time travel with the jetset Hello summer and my friends! I will not hold your time for long. Even though it is summer, I am very very busy with several big art projects, and, I am trying to do yoga everyday! I have also taken a web class by Melyssa Griffin (She is a blog-social-media-Guru) that really helped to help me see… Read More
How my mum used watercolour painting, healthy food and exercise, to heal her arthritis. I always loved anything and everything that has to do with creativity! When I was growing up, my mom was always sewing, drawing, painting or making something. My mom is an excellent chef, and cooking was her main job, but the rest of the… Read More
Drawings without a pencil outline HI there! It is finally summer holiday here in Norway, and I am looking for something fun and relaxing to do. I am thinking of something not too difficult, just something lovely to paint that leads me to the summer mood. In today’s post, I would like to show you something fun to paint. There are… Read More
Workspace for watercolor artists The layout, setup, and preparation. How to make your painting experience as comfortable and practical as possible If you just got started with painting, then most things are new, and you probably have more then enough with what happening on the paper. There are so many things to learn. Time and… Read More
Hey everyone!Well.. just the other day I made a silly mistake. I pushed “publish” before I intended to and the post went out. Sorry about that!I saw what I was doing, but a 100 Milli sec to late. I tried to stop it…… but I had send it to all my mail subscribers. In art we… Read More
I reposted one of my most popular blog posts, ever. I have added a new video. You can see the 30 minute video by sign up to access a free VIP library full of goodies. Get access here HAVE FUN AND PAINT A PARAKEET, TODAY I HAVE WILL EXPLAIN HOW I THINK WHEN I PAINT THE BIRD. AND I START WITH THE PARAKEET BECAUSE IT IS NOT TO… Read More
Some years ago I found some old photos in a antique shop, I didn´t know what to do with them, they didn´t cost much so what the HECK I just got the old photos anyway. I felt some excitement when I decided to get them. I know when that is happening to me it always turns in to something fun and new.… Read More
My new blog I have moved my blog to this new site and refreshed the format and layout. It has been a lot of work and now I am very exited and I hope you will like it as much as my old blog. For those of you that follow the blog by wordpress.com and… Read More
I am super proud to have been featured on Doodlewas! A big thanks to Charlie O’Shields for featuring Me. You can check it out here see link. There are also many other really great artist and lots of great stuff by Charlie O’Shields like tips and his amazing art!
The author, Liz Gilbert, wrote a new wonderful book named Big Magic last year.(She is already famous for her previous book “Eat Pray Love”) On Saturday I came across a TED talk where she shares her best pieces of advice for living a meaningful creative life. I was truly inspired and it didn’t take… Read More
Spring is finally arriving in Norway. Today I went for my first walk in 2016 in the park near to where I live. It is a lovely park which rins down both sides of a little river which flows from the hills into the big fjord in my town, Sandnes. The park has lots of… Read More
Hi! This is a repost (from 2015), most of you haven’t read it so I posted it again ……. but there are some new photos! I am enjoying my holiday, relaxing and doing nothing. But I like to share some sweet little eggs I had painted to my sweet daughter for Easter breakfast. Creativity has no limits and i… Read More
Spring is finally here! Many birds fly south for winter and when we hear then singing again it is a sign that spring is here. I have been waiting for the birds to come back. I wonder where they went and the nature programs tell me that some of them went all the way to… Read More
I found a lovely book in a second hand store that I remember from when I was young. “The country diary of an Edwardian lady” by Edith Holden. I always wanted to have it and so I grabbed the opportunity. It was written in 1906 but only published in 1977. It was an enormous success and… Read More
David Bowie’s ‘cut-up’ method of writing lyrics. David Bowie will be remembered for his music, being a singer, a songwriter, musician, record producer, painter, actor. For me, it was his dedication to creating art and for being avant-garde artist who has already impacted several generations and created new genres of fashion, music, and culture. Bowie almost single-handedly created the category… Read More
Now I am slowly filling more pages in my sketchbook. There are many small daily experiences, that will, over time, sum up to be my visual diary of the “small things” that I did and saw in 2016. I enjoy leaving my sketchbook open and returning to it during the day to continue to fill it… Read More
My boyfriend knew that I get sad when I leave him, so to cheer me up and to remind me of him he did something lovely. He got different paper and different coloured pens and wrote lovely little messages on the paper and cut them up and hid them everywhere. There was one in my… Read More
Hello, hello! Today I`m very happy, because I have made the perfect, personalized, original Valentine´s day present for my love. Find inspiration everywhere. Yesterday, I went to IKEA to buy some shelves for my daughter’s bedroom. Any of you who have been there will know that they have lots of inexpensive items that have a… Read More
January is a dark month for those of us in the northern hemisphere. But the days are getting longer and, although it is still cold and getting colder, Spring is on the way. I had some news that made me feel warm inside yesterday. A while ago, I was interviewed for this GREAT blog all about creativity… Read More
Review of Schmincke Horadam Watercolours I have a Winston & Newton box which is 25 years old that I am still using! When I bought it, I didn´t know that the colors were chosen for painting landscapes and nature, I don´t often paint landscapes, and now I prefer to pick the individual colors that I will use. I… Read More