Studio update.

I was wondering about titles for this blogpost. I thought for awhile, but all I could come up with was 'Studio update'. It is very accurate, but it also becomes a little bit boring after using it so many times. Then again, that is what most of my posts are about...  'Art journal page and finished painting' sounds more like a description than a title. Oh well, words and writing has never been my strongest side, but I guess that's why I usually try and tell my stories with pictures instead. 

Looking around my studio I can only conclude that I am in a blue period. Bluer than before, that is. All my backgrounds that I have started have a blue base of some kind. I do add different earth colours to most of them after the first two or three layers, but most of them are simply blue. It will give them a common theme if nothing else... 

A new page in my art journal. I did film this process, so I have a video of it for you:

A flying egret almost finished. One more layer of oil to the bird should do it. And legs. For some reason I always leave the legs for last...

I went shopping the other day, and one of the things I needed was new canvases. I have already given them all two coats of gesso.

I also found these water buckets with brush holders on my shopping spree. Aren't the colours just lovely?

As I have already posted on my Facebook page and Instagram, finding inspiration in my art journal for a new painting.

And last out I have a new painting for you: Blue rain. (Thank you cousin Linda for suggesting the title for it!) The only thing I still need to do is to sign it! Acrylic and oil on canvas, 35x45 cm.

I hope next week to have new finished painting to share with you! Until then!