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  • Painting watercolours in the rain

    A quick watercolour sketch from inside my boat.  It was raining, so it was nice to have a roof over my head. I had my mini palette with six colours.

  • Buffalo in Stockholm

    About a month ago, I took myself to Hemmesta, a small town outside Stockholm. There is a rewilding project that I find very interesting. They are recreating wetland with the help of Buffaloes. I think the idea is fantastic. Wildlife is already establishing itself, lots and lots of birds.

    I aim to paint here later, I’d say in September. Right now, my focus is the archipelago.

  • A list of the watercolours I am currently using

    If you would like to see my video where I talk about the watercolour paints I use. Click the link at it will bring you to my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/133326354

  • Painting at the museum once more

    It was bad weather again yesterday. Actually, it was really, really windy. This was the first time I painted together with Annika Berglund, my new plein air painting buddy! We were at the Natural History Museum, one of my favourite haunts when the weather isn’t great.

  • The painting of Fanni Udde

    A new video, 6 minutes long. 🙂

    The painting of Fanni Udde (Fanny´s Headland)

  • A quick watercolour of the Vasa Museum

    The museum is on Djurgården here in Stockholm. I think it’s a lovely composition with the building and the boats in front of it.

    The Vasa Museum houses an almost fully intact 17th-century naval vessel, the 64 gun warship called Vasa . It sank on her maiden voyage in 1628.

    Vasa Museet 26 x 36 cm

  • Is it possible to paint plein air, indoors?

    Yesterday, the weather was so bad in Stockholm. Wet and 13 degrees. I arranged with my friend Daniel Luther to meet at the Natural History Museum. We go there often during the winter, but this was the first time we visited during the summer. I painted a stuffed Woodland Kingfisher. I enjoyed myself. Oh yeah, it was the premiere for my new easel that I built just recently. I’ll talk more about that in the next post.

    Woodland Kingfisher 36 x 26 cm

  • Painted while drinking coffee

    I painted this little watercolour in a café called Tårtan (cake). I was with friends, they sketched too. I took the reference photo the summer before. The Stockholm archipelago.

    18 x 13 cm

    Stockholm archipelago

  • The Stockholm Town Hall

    A pleasant morning painting the town hall together with a friend recently. Plein air 26 x 36 cm

    town hall
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