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Two studies of a nude descending a staircase. Each descension took about 25-30 minutes.

No stop motion or editing, only speeded up.

It was a sequence study with a reference to Marcel Duchamp’s painting named “Nude descending a staircase”, which was an experiment combining italian futurism and a bit of the concepts of cubism.

Still sketch crawling every sunday. I just finished my old 200-page moleskine plain notebook with faces. I bought a new one – the more exclusive sketchbook edition.  The soft heavy paper on these books are just fantastic. The pencil gives a very responsive and dynamic line.

Here are some of my latest sketches from my brand new Moleskine “facebook”.

Being an art student often drives you into a critical approach in making Art. Sometimes making art can drive you into very restraining ideas about what is art and what is not. Usually these kinds of ideas can lead you into evil loops or just turn out pretty hilarious.

I thought the idea of drawing myself as the complex and self-proclaimed misunderstood genius-artist would make an interesting character.

Here with a loose reference to Marcel Duchamp and the paranoiac critical methods of Salvador Dali.

Follow upcoming pages where I disclose substance in art and how to paint real art from the unconscious!

If I was an autobiographic comic book character… Actually I have sketched out a couple of pages and some finished panels with this character. Stay tuned!!!

Ink brush pens

Just a quick post to show whats on my easel these days… I am painting with acrylics on a 100×80 cm canvas. Experimenting a bit with different glazing and wash techniques.

Quick sketches from a slow motion clip. Really just focused on simplifying strokes and gestures. Started from the left – one to three minutes per figure. It seems like I got more secure for each figure I painted.

I recorded the painting process from one of my Shaman character sketches. Partly I’ve been experimenting with brush strokes when painting these characters. I try to put more information into every stroke to build form and render lighting. This is to achieve a more economic painting process as well as adding more life and dynamics in the paintings.

The clip is speeded up and doesn’t contain much educational hints. But to me it is interesting to look back to. Don’t take the music added to the clip too seriously – I made it myself and is one of my first tries ever to compose and record some sounds. To me its more of alternative creative route..

See the finished sketch below:

Portrait by observation – not finished. I learned a lot from this piece. Hope to go back and finish it eventually.
Found some inspiration from the great painters Euan Uglow and Lucien Freud

Acrylics on canvas ~ 80 x 60 cm.

I added a new painting to my gallery – Europa Strikes Back – perhaps a reference to the Greek mythology about the rape of Europa – which name also being used by a documentary covering the fate of Europe’s treasures in the Third Reich and the second world war. In that case the choice of the soviet T-34 gun turret is pretty suitable

Either way it is suggesting the work of a classic nude life study based on the primary colors. But obviously this is done with more potence!

Here are some details:

I tend to be quite careful when it comes to painting. Easily a lot of planning and analysis comes into play after worked out an idea. My idea phase follows a pattern more similar to surreal automatism. Here I will share an experiment in which I sort of reversed this process, allowing the painting process be more intuitive and less controllable.

I am posting a painting which in some way is perhaps a bit embarrassing. But I do like it and I think the painting is important for me at this moment. I painted this after working almost two weeks on one acrylic painting. This piece however was painted in less than 10 minutes. I picked up what was closest to me; a roll of masking tape. Then a knife was given to me by a fellow student. I made myself aware of not to think about perspective, composition or color harmony. I only focused on spotting color and quickly swiped them down on the board. And guess what; no one got hurt!

I honestly feel excited about this painting. It might be because it doesn’t feel like I have painted it. The process went so fast and almost automatic that I can’t remember how I painted it – a similar experience one can get from automatic writing.

Oil on primed wood. ~40×40 cm