Recent content by Rikard

Exactly. Back in the day :) I've actually been leaning into polaroids lately. It's costly, but so is film nowadays :(

Very good photographs. Like memories of a dream :) I've been enjoying the Holga for years. I think the limitations of the camera awakens the creative spirits.

I've decided to cut down on scrolling and ramp up my reading. Currently I'm enjoying "The art of hearing heartbeats" by Jan-Philipp Sendker. A lovely book. God it feels great to be reading again :)

Indeed. There is poetry in some of those brush marks :) I tend to paint more "blocky". But do enjoy being loose and expressive.

Thank you. The paintings in my last post was done by John Marin though :)

Thank you so much Christine. Those examples are great. Abstracted and simplified. I will definitively find use for them. I think one of my problems is that I like to work quick, with a large brush. As soon as I bring out a small brush and start to work on the smaller cracks and features I cramp...

Thank you very much. I also like #1. Might do something more with those colours :)

After my struggles trying to paint a mountain. I felt I needed to just put some paint on paper. So I did a few tree composition from imagination.

I've been away from painting for a while. Not really away from watercolours. But I fell down the rabbit hole of mixing and researching pigments. And haven't really been trying to actually paint. It started as I wanted to assemble a minimal palette for travel. And that took well longer than I...