Ålesund Paintings: 2

As I have said many times; I cannot draw. Hopefully my followers like my expressions through colours 

My paintings are therefor not a precise "copy" of how the Jugend city Ålesund looks like, but how I remember or like to remember some of the areas in my birth town 

One of my favourite motives in Ålesund is the area along "Moloveien" with the houses not involved in the great city fire in 1904 and the landmark "Moljå" lighthouse . This painting above is a winter image.

The same view in these two paintings at late evening without snow and the "Aspøy school"  together with old sea houses  along the shore. 

Between Molja and the southern seaside the well known "Brosundet" separate Aspøy and Nørvøy; the two original city islands where Ålesund was established. The Sea Houses and the city mountain Aksla are painted on this image,

The same area prolonged to south west and "Naftadjupet" is expressed through this Summer image.

The old sea houses at Aspøya are today free from fish production and changed into hotels, restaurants and modern homes.

On the other shore (south) and further west in the "cannel" towards the great "Hellebroa" (bridge between the islands) I try to express my  experience of the landscape along the quays.

The same area expressed in a different style show the great shopping house "Rønnebergbua" before the street development  along the seashore.

Rønnebergbua seen from east to west and the central square "St Olavs Plass" (Sankten) is also one of my favourite motives.

 

Another image from the old Ålesund is the bird cliff which today is replaced by City Hall and shopping areas.

 From Sankten the Løvenvold street goes uphill towards  the old Løvenvold cinema 

Ålesund is one of Norways most beautiful cities and especially when the sun is shining and the sky is blue. However the annual rain volume is 977 mm so the painting above could be seen as the typical Ålesund image.

This end my blog presentation of Norwegian city images. 

Ålesund paintings: 1

In addition to my Oslo images presented in last blogpost I have made 2 blogpost of my paintings from Ålesund and the surroundings. The first post (this) has images of the nature in which the city is placed.

The first painting is how I see the city from the viewpoint at "Aksla / Fjellstua" at the top of the famous staircase of 418 steps up the hillside.

This painting is made from the fjord at the northern side of the city with the "Sula" mountain behind.

This is also from north to south but from Aksla showing  "Slinningbua" on the eastern part of the island "Hessa" (one of the three islands where Ålesund is located)

From Slinningsbua facing north and behind the stormy Aspevågen, you have second island "Aspøya" with the landmark "Aspøy school" and the City Hall.

Stormy weather is almost natural at this part of Norway and the rain pouring down at "Breisundet" and "Eltrane", is the view from the western part of Hessa

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South east of the city the spectacular "Sunnmørsalpene" gives a great framework of the nature surrounding the Jugend City Ålesund

 This two last paintings end the presentation in my blogpost no 1 from Ålesund. In a few days I will give you my expressions of the inner city .

Oslo Paintings

Almost every painter in the world use their home surrounding as possible motives. So am I.

Buildings and landmarks in Oslo have been backgrounds for many paintings during my efforts to create a ArneA-style. But my head is so full of different intensions so I do not know if my followers can look at an image and say: "This is  ArneA "

However, in this blogpost I will gather some of my Oslo paintings and thus be up to the blog-followers to decide which is or should be the typical ArneA-style.

I start the presentation showing Oslo City Hall

These paintings are done from Aker Brygge (west) and Pappabuene (east) in an area called Vika.

This painting is also  from the City Hall Quays in Vika showing the steamer "Børøysund" and one of the Cruise liners at the Akershus seaside.

This one is also from the seaside at PiperVika, but showing the Akershus Fortress  in front of Ekeberg Hill

On the other side of Akershus we find the new city development area ; Bjørvika.  Here I have tried to catch my expression of the new sky line Barcode early in the development process.

The Parliament building from 1866 in the middle of Oslo centre at Karl Johan is made in black and white like a sketch

 Higher up the Karl Johan we find the old University Library and the Royal Castle at the top.

Covering the Fortress, City Hall, University, Royal Castle and the Parliament I was only missing the spiritual or religious power factor in our society. Oslo Cathedral and the Courtyard are covered on this painting from "Storgata"

A complete different style of buildings can be found at Tjuvholmen  located on a peninsula sticking out from Aker Brygge into the Oslofjord. It is located east of Filipstad and south of Vika. 

Oslo has a great area around the city called Marka where recreation or physical activities can be done either by walking, running, biking or swimming. This is from Sognsvann 

Mentioning physical activity an image of the pride of Oslo; Vålerenga and Freddy dos Santos also must be included.

 The last three paintings I present in this blogpost is from our (now Rikke´s) city cottage area where I first started my painting carieer. Our garden on top and below our neighbours red cottage

and finally a self portrait in front of out great Fagerbusk (Kolkwitzia Amabilis)