A lot of works have been produced and I feel that I am developing my skill every time I grab the brush and put colors on canvas. This summer I have also went back to my first way of making paintings by working with acrylic on paper. It is cheaper and can be seen as sketches for future works on canvas
In this blogpost I will first present some of these paperworks and then return to the canvas works.
Summer night
Female and Male Figures
Abstraction
My canvas works started with som adjustments of basement stored paintings where I found it necessary to improve the result if they should be put on walls here and there.
Moonlight
Act
Pride
Then I went back to my everlasting obsession to make variations of landscapes without any particular location (I paint what I saw and not what I see)
The rough nature of Norway´s western coastline with mountains and fjords and the barren landscapes far north makes many possibilities for expressing my mind although some may found it close to their own homes.
Trapper´s hut
Going west
Boathouses
Mountain shelter
Fjord mist
Nature can also be expressed through abstract and colorful paintings. I have made four images representing the four seasons winter, springtime, summer and autumn. They are not necessarily connected and have individual titles.
Sometimes I also want to go back to my very first experiments of making paintings by using cubism as a reference for reaching a free colorism like some of the paintings above.
Cold Ocean
Nøkken
Summer cottage
Tree cluster
Water
Trees
Mountains
Mathematics
Red Moon
Because I am really bad at making real portrait of living persons I sometimes make expressions like masks. This summer I had a canvas that was too narrow and too long for another landscape so another mask was worked out
The sad mask
A photo of my only male grandchild Henrik when he was performing with his guitar before an audience in England was also used as inspiration for a painting without being able to identify the face
Henrik and Bamseklem
Calligraphic expressions is another way of making art. I have been given a Chinese name since I stayed in Singapore 30 years ago documented in my old business card. Why not put my calligraphic surname on canvas by using my ovn paintbrushes, was the meaning behind my closing painting from summer 2025.
An Liang Sheng