Art.

 We visited the opening of our good friend Jörgen Platzer's solo exhibition at Kalmar Art Museum today.

Jörgen is a great painter who also works with sculpture and installation. Recent years he has been occupied with the Trojan Horse as a theme. This show he also incorporated the concept of transport. Documenting his horses in different environments and combining paintings of, and real wrecked cars with his Trojan Horses.

Cherry Blossom

I went to Hanemålaskolan to plan for the documentation of my Cherry Blossoms in the schools library. Just like the stars, these paintings are inspired by japanese origami.

Sound today: The Felice Brothers – The Felice Brothers

Cherry Blossom, Done

Today I could finally, with help from trusted friend Sten B, install the Cherry Paintings at Hanemålaskolan, Nybro.

And this two weeks ahead of deadline. The paintings have actually been finished for over a month. Except canvas nr. 5. I repainted the background on that one just two days ago. I was never really happy with it but now it looks as it should.

Sten in action. I actually had started to fasten it to the wall before we noticed our mistake.

As you can see the library is not finished yet.

Close to finish?

White

Cherry Blossom

The flowers are taking shape. Gray comes in a lot of different shades, definitely my favourite colour.

New Project

I've been working on this for quite a while now. Only now I actually started painting. Thanks

S. T. for the great shots from my studio today.

Wood Chase

Working on a study for a another Hot Rod painting. Thanks Jan-Ove at http://www.earlyford.no/ for use of the photo of the kool Mercury. The A is my own, somewhat photoshopped.

More inspiration from 19th cetury swedish artists, this time Prins Eugen. The wood 1892.

Work in progress.

Making progress with Gas. I would call this the layout. Hope to finish in a couple of weeks.

I made a new sky, inspired by Nordic Summer Evening 1899-1900, by swedish artist Richard Bergh.

Color

I started to "paint" my drawing for "Gas" using photos, photoshop brushes and structures from photos. I turned out that my perspective wasn't wery well done so I had to make a new composition. It may seem a little rough but I think it will work just fine when I start painting.

By the way, I have made a lot of progress on my portrait of KW.

Transferring

Charcoal on canvas.

Painting.

I found som more inspiration from covers of old Hot Rod comics.

I have been working, stretching canvas, changing formats and sizes. At the same time the sketches, especially for the A-Bombs are developed. I'm pleased with how it turns out. New is the overturning '55 Chevy and the '40 Willys trying to avoid the crash. The Deuce Coupe has been there on and off from the start. It still needs a lot of details. The '31 should get an engine, the '55 and the Deuce are still rough sketches.

I hope to start painting on sunday when the gesso is dry.

I probably will work whith these paintings the rest of spring wich means i won't be posting a lot from Dogs for a while. You're of course welcome to follow the painting process.