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I mean, it sure as hell isn’t done but I don’t really know where I wanna take it so... here. I’ll just throw it into the void known as tunblrr dot com.

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I think birds are absolutely adorable. So I decided to do some winter bird paintings for my grandparents! 

It’s an Eurasian Jay (photo ref by Henrique Oliveira Pires)  and an Eurasian Bullfinch (photo ref by Steve Dahlfors). 

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Forest flora

This was an interesting piece to paint since I rarely paint nature or plants... I’m really happy with how it turned out. I guess I was a bit early for fall vibes when I created this, and now posting it I’m a bit late to the party :D

Reference photo by oldmosswoman

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Animals

I never got around to scanning these pieces earlier, that’s why I’m suddenly uploading a bunch of watercolour pieces... I painted some animals, the first one is a grey seal (ref photo by Rob Janné) and the second one is of my and my boyfriends cats, Toulouse & Houdini. 

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Cars, cars, cars...

I did some watercolour paintings of cars earlier this year. Don’t quote me on this, but I do believe the first one is a Mercedes-Benz 500K Cabriolet and the second one is a restored 1958 Aston Martin DB2/4 Mk III (photo credits to Robin Adams).

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Nature of Life

I made this piece for our spring exhibitions back in 2017. I wanted to explore the frailty of life and how certain things just have to happen, it’s just the way things are. Most of all I just wanted to paint some animals...

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A few digital pieces for a facebook group, where we’d drawn something based on a prompt every weekday. It was fun to do some quicker, more experimental pieces!

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I’ve lately been incredibly inspired by Lioba Brückner’s videos where she talks about creating art while she’s in the process of creating art herself. I really adore the techniques she use and the motifs of her paintings so I used some of the inspiration I got from her and a photo from instagram as reference and voilá. A new painting was born..

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I practiced doing portraits using watercolors. Nearly all of them are referenced from photos I found online.

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A dark and unknown road...

Something I made in the middle of the night after being very stuck in an art block. Not a masterpiece, but at least I got something done, and sometimes that’s all you can do!

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Some sketches from the past year or so? I’ve enjoyed using watercolors a bit in my sketchbooks, I like the fact that it gives some texture and color.

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The Lady and the Ocelot Forgot to upload this earlier... This piece was combined with an ocelot skull that I made out of air drying clay and some golden chocolate coins. The piece was a small take on materialistic values and what remains once we’re gone.

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okay i know, extremely shitty photos but hey. A couple of months ago I got a sketch book that is entirely dedicated to real life sketches (or sometimes using photos... still) and I thought I’d post some of the stuff I’ve managed to draw so far. 

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Testing out FireAlpaca, trying to find SAI alternatives that work on Mac.

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Currently working on this...

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Two studies of the same photo, June 4th 2015 / April 4th 2016

Reference photo

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A short fanzine I made for school before Christmas