That´s right!

2 more cats

Sometimes I love to make silly paintings. Cats are one of my favorite themes ;-)

Making some progress with my little cat

I changed my mind. (I do that all the time - very irritating!!) Remember yesterday? I had made this: 

BUT: I changed my mind. Is that indecisioness what they call a "creative process", or is it just me? Ever so often my projects die, because I keep taking them into new directions. You see, I found an old sketch last night, and suddenly I understodd what that black wooden lid was meant to become. I will tell you more about that this weekend. 

So, I had to figure out what to do with my paperclay cat. I am maing this one for a special occasion. I can´t say anymore :-)

Well, I found a nice wooden door sign, and made a shelf for the cat to sit on. (Polystyrene foam, two wooden sticks drilled through and fixed with white glue and paper clay on top.) I think I will paint it grey with stone pattern. Like this: 

The cat is just plain white right now, but after I ´ m done with it, it will be very colorful. I think the cat belongs to a witch. It will of course be named Felix. All my cats are called Felix. There must be something wrong with my imagenation... It is just that whenever I make a cat, or paint one, I think Felix is a very appropriate name... 

And it will have a fun witchy hat! Like this one:

Illutstration from the book: "How to cook children  a grisly recipe book" by  Martin Howard  & Colin Stimpson. 

 I totally love this provocative childrens book ;-) It has all sorts of wonderful innlustrations of witches ;-)

Honoring the August full moon!

I made this painting today. I like those gothic moons, anf those Swarovski crystals :-) I named it: "Songs from Anneland: I told you a secret tonight" 

It is painted on a wood panel. 

New cat painting and the solution to varnish!

I can´t stop painting cats :-)

This one is 14 cm 14 cm (7,5 " x 7,5") incl the wooden frames.

I also added som beautiful Swarovski crystals to look like bright stars!

It is really nice accually :-) It also has a little moody poem written by myself. 

Also, where there is a will, there is a way!

I have found the solution to varnish a acrylic painting adorned with Posca pens! Remember I allmost ruined a painting? LINK The secret is to SPRAY the varnish instead of painting it on. Then the Posca won´t run out! On these paintings I used a varnish from Winsor & Newton and it works just great! I love the gloss!

New cat paintings

Did you know that I love cats? I adore their movements and their gracefullness. Last night I was watching Alma Lee´s fun paintings and decided that I would like to make something simular.
They are 12 cm x 12 cm, acrylic painting, acrylic varnish, wooden frame painted black.
400 DKR or $67 + shipping for them both

Send me an mail if you wish to purchase.

More painting on the cats

I am working on the 5 cats. They all have different personalities, and that must be reflected in their appaearance. I have 4 ready, and are thinking about the 5. What do you think?

WIP painting "They forgot to invite us to the teaparty"

I have this story in my head. It is the story about the day of the grand teaparty. All the fine ladies were invited, and Mrs. Johnson had set the garden table with a nice lacetablecloth and her very expensive china. Mrs. Johnson had made cookies and several whipped cream pies with beautiful decorations, and she was very proud of herself, because she wanted to make a good impression on all the ladies. She had been busy all day, and was just cleaning up the kitchen before the guests would arrive. Little did she know, that in a little while, some univited guests would crash the party totally :-)

New cat

I love to sculpt cats. They are graceful and funny at the same time. I have so much enjoyment just by silently observing my own three cats. Yesterday my Merlin came running inn from the garden, with a wild look in his eyes. I could tell he wasn´t present in there at all. He was lost in a wild bird chase, and he still had the bird (Blackbird) and half of the branch in his mouth!!! I chased him around the house, up and down the stairs armed with a waterspray and a broom, while he was growling with his mouth full of feathers and leafs......
Oh my God - I felt terrible for that bird. I love Blackbirds. They sing so beautifully. At the end I chased him out of the house, and closed the door after him. He then arranged himself outside my window in the studio, and guarded his pray for a long time, growling and spinning.
OKAY! I know I must understand the nature´s way, and I also know that possibly the bird was a gift for me (some experts say, that´s right!), but I hate it when cats do that. I get hysterical and feel like kicking the cat´s bum all the way out of my house... Later the same evening we kissed and made up. (But I still could smell the bird...) Here´s a pic of the rascal:

Merlin The Grey, the big birdhunter.

But I was to tell you a little about the new sculpt :-) Okay, it is made from paperclay. Eyes are acrylic from Hong Kong, and it is painted with bright acrylic colors. It also got a matt varnish, but somehow it is still a bit glossy. I was going for a stray allycat-look. I really liked it befor the painting including the eyes, but something happened after the painting... I still like it and are willing to show it here on the blog, but there is something wrong.... and I think it is the plastic eyes. Somehow I always end up with being irritated when I use them. They signal.... plastic! What do you think? 

The sculpt was a fullmoon gift for my beloved. We celebrate our love on every fullmoon. Yesterday we went to the cinema and saw the movie "War Horse". WE cried a little and enjoyed it very much, especially the part where a english soldier and a german soldier, in the middle of the warfield under a white flag, cooperates in removing all the barbwire from the bleeding horse. That was beautiful. 

Nu er katten snart færdig

Kattefigur - prototype

Det går fremad med mine katte. Jeg har dækket grundkonstruktionen med ler ( La Doll - et hollandsk papirler produkt), og forsøgt at lave en kat som jeg kan dekorere med skønne farver i et abstrakt mønster. Denne kat er en prototype, og jeg eksperimenterer med materialet og tørretid etc. Nu håber jeg på, at den ikke sprækker eller revner. 

Jeg maler popart!

Jeg forsøger mig på "popart". Her er et link til en hjemmeside, hvor der er flere slags af disse billeder. 

 Jeg har et fint billede af migselv og mit barnebarn, som har en lidt skæv og skør vinkel, som jeg tænker, egner sig meget godt til et billede af denne slags. Jeg startede med at scanne motivet over på lærredet, for at finde forskellige områder. Til dette formål brugte jeg en Artograph Tracer Projector. En lille demonstrationsvideo:

Derefter begyndte jeg at klaske maling på lærredet, indtil det kom til at se sådan ud:

Lidt flere grafiske detaljer, så bliver det fint!

Jeg har tegnet konturene op af Alex og mig selv igen. De skal nu males op med sort, så de står i siluet på den kraftige farvede baggrund.

Kig med i morgen aften!

Lille hilsen fra den nu nykastarerede Merlin:

Lille juleting :-)

Her er en lille juleting jeg lavede her i weekenden. Jeg havde et dukkehoved lavet i træmodellermasse, som jeg ikke rigtig gad at lave en dukke af. Jeg besluttede at lave en juleting istedet, og den blev rigtig sjov!

Øjnene blev fyldt ud med selvhærdende ler, og hele hovedet blev malet med acryl maling. Jeg trak en kraftig ståltråd gennem og lavede skjulte øsken både foroven og forneden. Han fik en udstoppet julehat og klokker forneden, samt en organza krave. Hele figuren er selvfølgeligt dækket af vandfast Puppenlack.

 Navnet er Kitty-ornament og er selvfølgelig modelleret efter min egen kat:

"Merlin the Grey"

Dette er hovedet da det lige var lavet. Jeg pillede de sorte øjne ud efter den tørrede.

Vil du også have et ornament modelleret efter dit dyr, så skriv lige. Prisen er 290 kr + forsendelse.