Takin' a nap

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Bay horses at the stonewall

I wanted to use my acrylicpaints again, and composed this small painting; 14,5x45 cm. Painted on acrylic-paper.

I intended to paint a warm, summerpainting. I love these old stonewalls, and found the horses beautiful with their shining red fur.

Equine artwork

I am working hard to have my equine artworks ready to enter competition.

Here is a peep just for you. Its from a graphite/charcoal drawing. Later I'll show the whole artworks.

Painted - western style

A print of my oilpastel-painting "Painted - western style" are on its way to the US.
Wonderful news for me; it will hang at a horseshow office. I couldn't ask for at better recommendation :)

Artplace - original drawings

Did you know, that I have original drawings and paintings showcased on artplace.dk. If you would like to own original art, take a look.


If you want to save money, but still adore beautiful drawings and paintings, then prints are great to own. Take a look at my printwebsite. You will find information, and links.

You are always welcome to ask me if you have any questions, my mailadress are at the bottom of this page.
Or you can write to me via the contact formular on my webside.

Current project - horses

As mentioned in my last "Gentle Giants" post, I have a break from that drawing.

It is because I'll try to get work finished for a competition that I have participated in for the last 3 years. I was very happy to be accepted the first 2 years, last year I did not succeced.

That's the game of competitions ;)

I usually send in 3 pieces. Above you can see what was accepted in 2007 "Oldenburger horse", portrait and 2008 "All tied up for the show". Those are the images at top.

The other pieces was sent in, and not juried-in.

I plan to send one entry from 2009 againg (not displayed here) - that's also in the game of competitions. There are new judges each year, and subjective minds can be a big difference...

And it is a drawing, I like very much.

Well I am busy now ...

Win a print

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Now you have the possibilty to win a miniprint of my artwork above.

All you have to do, is send me the title of the artwork you wanna win, and you join the competition.

The images can be found on this blog or in my galleries.

E-mail me the answer, before 10. december 2010.

Please write "print competition" in the mails title. Be sure to include your name and adress, in case you win.

E-mail adress is found on my website; choose News in left column, where my competition is announced too.

The competition runs untill 10.december 2010, good luck. Winners will be announced on 11.december 2010.

The print is on archival fineart paper.

Gentle giants - irish wolfhounds

Here is an update, this is how far I got with the second dog.

Then, I have to ask those who follow this wip, once again to be patient.

I also have to patient with myself - my goal was to finish this drawing this week - but will not happen:

I have to work on something else. I don't know how long it will take, but I will finish this up later.

Poll result - collecting art

About a year ago I posted a poll on my blog, to get some idea about collecting artwork. The result can be seen in the right colomn. Link

The response was not overwhelming - 9 people replied, with 14 votes.

4 votes was for collecting original artwork. 3 votes for collecting prints and 2 for collecting artcards. 2 votes wanted to collect art and 3 didn't have interest.

Er du dyreven, se mine print

Som dyreven, er du sikkert glad for at se på kunst med dyremotiver. Billeder man synes om, har stor værdi og skaber gode følelser.

Du har nu mulighed for at købe flere af mine trykte billeder, direkte fra mig.

Jeg kan leverere billeder i størrelsen A4 (21x29,7 cm) af sorthvide motiver.

Motiverne er trykt på kraftigt kunstpapir, syrefrit og langtidsholdbart. Hæng dog aldrig hverken originaler eller aftryk direkte i sollys.

Motiverne ses i Imagekind-shoppen.

Prisen er inkl. porto kr. 125. Sendes i kraftigt rør.

For øvrige print - farver og størrelser henvises til Imagekind-shoppen.

For spørgsmål, bestilling evt. kontakt mig på min kontaktformular, nederst i venstre kolonne, på min website .

(copyright linjen er ikke på print)

Gentle giants - irish wolfhounds

Starting on dog at the right side. Still a long way.

I am almost certain at this point, that they will be standing on stones.

A question of personal style

The question of personal style when being an artist, has - if not haunted - then bothered me for a long period.

I've read in several places that you have to develop a distinct style, which I think means a personal style, that will naturally grow as you work. And I agree on that, but percieved it in a wrong way.

That statement together with the statement of the importance of not confusing gallery-owners/dealers/judges etc by showing them different styles, which will lead them to not take your art in, as they don't see a connected body of work, got me depressed. At the same time, I understood the importance of clients/people wanting to be able to recognize the specific artist.

Now - this has droven me nuts, and I've read other skilled artists having the same thoughts as me.
I know many artists works only in one media all the time, and that's great - for them. They must have another temper than me.
I am the kind of artist that like to explore, experiment, try out, draw and paint all kinds of ways and with different medias. Of cause, I also want to have an income from my art, I do not neglect the business side of it. Neither do I neglect the importance of practice!

I got a bit mad, that the persons selling our art, would at the same time supress some of the very characteristics of being an artistic soul. I do not mean that artists working in the same media and concept are not artistic souls. But some fit better into boxes than others. Or they find satisfaction staying in the same line of work.

What I didn't see clearly - being in the stage of "not knowing what you don't know" - was that I can be as free and experimental as I want, and still fit into the artworlds boxes.

The problem was, that I believed that I should see my one and only personal style, throughout all my artwork - despite technique, motif, media etc. And I got confused, resignedly and not able to do so.

When the thing is, that I do have personal style in those media, techniques etc. where I have worked the most. And in time I will develop more personal style in the medias still a bit unknown to me.

But the style are not similar across media.

So to satisfie the artworld box, I should just think of showing only one media at the same presentation - or perhaps two, but be clear about my awareness of this representing two different sides of me.

It was such a liberation to accept that ! And I hope fellow artists, struggling with the same issues, will find this to be true for them too.

Our artistic soul gains nothing from restrictions or tight boxes. Then we produce art only having business in mind. I am sure art gains from visions, goal-setting, experiments, working-hours and much more.

Follow your hearth and dreams. Happy drawing and painting!

Prints and gifts - it's 3 months to Christmas

Christmas is closer than you think, christmas gifts soon to be found. What's better than finding unique gifts for your family and friends.

For your animal loving friends and relatives, I have many wonderful prints to choose from. It is safe and easy to buy.

Take a look here and discover my best animal-artwork.

Bought framed it is ready to hang and spread joy and pleasure at your friends homes.

New prints just added.

Other gifts are easy to collect in my a-zoo cafe-press shop. Let your friends show their love of animals by many different items.