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I have a new hobby. I began to paint with acryllics. I kept this quiet for some time because the first few paintings were supposed to be Christmas presents. Christmas is over and the presents were given, so now I feel that the time is right to write about it.

Gitte started me on painting. She paints herself and had tried to encourage me to try it out myself for some time.

The photo shows Gitte painting her picture "Evolution".




The thing that got me started was not painting in itself but "leftovers" from a cut and paste art project that Terese and I started on (and still haven't finished). I had a gold paper dragon head silouette in the wrong size which I didn't want to toss out.




With help of the original paper pattern of the dragon head, a bunch of glitter, sequins, canvas and some blue paint I fabricated this picture. Well, actually I first finished it recently. It took some time for me to find a way to prevent the sequins and glitter to drizzle off all the time. I managed, as you can see. :-)








That was the start of the end. ;-) I made one more cut and paste picture which became a Christmas present and quickly moved on to painting with stencil patterns I made myself.











I am still "stuck" in this phase. Gitte explained and showed me a lot, and now I experiment with different kinds of texture pastes and gels.















I am also playing with colors and trying a bunch of different techniques. At this point, I don't think that there is a single picture where I haven't tried something new. Also I noticed that I moved to larger canvases. When I stated a 24 x 30 cm canvas seemed huge. Now I consider everything at 30 x 40 cm and below as very small. ;-)







I am also a person who has several projects in progress at the same time. Right now I have two picture ideas ready to be put on canvas in my head, two that I still think about, and five in various stages of completion.
















Here is the finished picture og Gittes "Evolution".