Recent content by Rikard

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...