In Sweden we have an absolutely heavenly archipelago. It’s so beautiful and peaceful, when it’s not a storm going on of course.
I think “millions” of artist have painted the archipelago scenes and so have I.
But with this painting I wanted to break the tradtion. The horizon is not horizontal and in our archipelago, there are no crocodiles.
The weather is not sunny and calm, it’s dark and maybe there’s a storm coming up. Who knows.
So it’s kind of a crazy painting. But fun, I Think. I like breaking patterns and traditions to force the thoughts in new directions.
Anna
This takes the eye backwards and forwards across the line of boats and reflections
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You’re right. Didn’t think of that before. Thanks for opening my eyes 🙂
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I am not sure what to say about this painting. It seems different from your other paintings. I like it a lot. Maybe (for me) it is a painting to look at and not to talk about.
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Well said. I had a hard time with it when I painted. Things didn’t go the way I wanted, but in the end I found a way to make peace with the picture. And that was to make a crazy archipelago, break rules of how to paint water, horizon and boats.
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I like it. it’s like sailboats dancing on the water at night. “pling”
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What a great description of the painting. I wanted to do a unusual archipelago painting. I broke the horisontal horizon and I decided to paint some bad weather instead of sunny sky and glittering water. We don’t actually have crocodiles in our water, but I think that was fun to bring in to the picture.
“Pling”
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add an elephant or two sometime. that would be interesting. maybe make them a wooly mammoth.
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Good ideas. I might just do that! Now you got me thinking 🙂
“Pling”
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you are welcome! “pling”
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I have struggle hard with that painting and finally I was ok with it, but not great ok, so your ideas may lead to something changes for the painting.
“Pling”
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wonderful. look forward to seeing what you create. “pling”
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Love the movement and the angles. And the juxtaposition of movement and stasis.
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Thank you for beautiful words 🙂
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Love your nautical pieces!!!!!
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Thank you! I feel like doing new nautical paintings, so I sure will be back in the future with more 🙂
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I love the crocodile!
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Thank you. We don’t have crocodiles in our archipelago, but I wanted a crocodile in the painting, so in art everything is possible 🙂
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Great contrast, brilliant color.
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Thank you. I worked a long time with the painting.
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It is really awesome!
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Thank you very much 😀
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You are quite welcome!
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