This local landscape showed me not to

This local landscape showed me not to

I’ve said I was going to start a series of local landscape paintings in acrylics, but this first landscape painting showed me that I was going about it in the wrong way. Doing them in acrylics won’t bring the results I want for this series. Even though an...
The way I create amulet art

The way I create amulet art

Some of the art I do is what I call amulet art. It’s art with runes included, visible or hidden, for the purpose of an amulet. Today I wanted to share with you how I create a piece of amulet art. After deciding what purpose I want to create an amulet for, or...
Plastic produces fun results

Plastic produces fun results

This week in my Creative Explorers group, the prompt was to use one of these creative experiments to create something. Because I’m working on a series of symbols using watercolour, I chose to work in watercolour, so I’d get a background for a new symbol. I...
How I create symbols

How I create symbols

I wanted to show you how I create my symbol paintings, and today I remembered to take some pictures for that. I start off with a blank sheet and an idea of what I want to create. For this one, I knew I wanted a symbol of Earth because I’ve done fire and water...
What does this card have to tell you?

What does this card have to tell you?

The card I’m talking about is the Ace of Cups, and the one on the right here is the Ace of Cups from my Arthropoda Tarot deck. The card almost always has an overflowing cup on it, so I made one for my card too. The usual interpretation for the Ace of Cups is:...
Dancing Elves at Dusk

Dancing Elves at Dusk

This is the fifth painting in my folklore series, and the motif this time is a group of elves dancing at dusk. The mist on the forest floor is sometimes called elf dance here in Scandinavia. People used to believe it was the elves dancing in the forest. So I included...

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