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Thankyou Star.
Quite a task, this time But the good thing about acrylic colours is that you can go on and on until you´re satisfied

Yez. It´s meant to be, San
No,seriously this time I just had a lot of fun I tried a lot of new things - tecnically this time. So, the subjects had to be something I wasn´t too caught up with.
The agenda was mostly light, shadow, colour, materials (clothes, skin, the plates, table cloth and so on)
I felt confident with these things when i formerly painted with watercolours, but acrylics is a whole different ballgame. It´s never too late to change things and i worked the painting over more than ten times ..but the good thing about it is that you can plan as you go.

I think you´re right Sarah.
I just put them there. I don´t know what will happen. And now I come to think of it: I´m so happy that the viewers take over and kind of owns the painting. Analyze or live with it or feel it...whatever. I´m just so pleased when it happens.
Yeah.she looks a bit like a predator, the crawling woman, doesn´t she?

When I run out of ideas or feelings of what to paint, I have two possibilities.
1) I have a drawer with a lot of cut out pics from newspapers, old photographs that somehow had made me hesitate and observe them with some sort of interest.

2) I have a big collegeblock i call The Book of Everything. In that book I write down ideas. Somtimes it´s long synopsis´ describing very clear defined ideas.

This painting is based on a photo from a movie and a pic from a newspaper (the faces) The rest is self composed...the drawer solution

It was strange...while working on it. It was like the painting was running away from me...playing hide and seek with me. I changed moods every day and the painting changed with it. I didn´t make decisions at the beginning..but after a month, I had to. Otherwise I would have been going on forever Then I took the part of the painting that was most succesfully made at the time and let that fragment decide how the rest should be. There was something dreamlike about the colours and I followed their lead After that I didn´t thik about what the persons did/does/will do

@ Pam
Yeah. That´s absolutely a possibility Pamela. Cannibalism might be in there somewhere

@ Isabel
If you read my answer to San. You might get an idea

@ Pam
Yes Pamela. You make perfect sense. You´re speaking my language. I know exactly wat you mean

Like with you, and when i see other artists, I feel like some kind of professional connection...like collegues. We do lots of things the same way

@ San
Most of what I do using the art machine, is communication. I like to communicate! It occurs to me that painting this situation, has something to do with my childhood. A fuuny way to deal with something serious. My mother suffered from anorexia and that fact reflected on her way to cook That´s why my father and I became exellent cooks. We all hated the dinner situation. normally a situation of gathering and comfort...but not where I come from So my painting, I think; is a way to describe a tense situation around suppertime at the dinnertable. It´s not the whole story, but it has partly to do with "food situations"..I´ve had a lot of them during my childhood. Strangly enough they havn´t given me traumas about eating. I´m normal weight and I like..correction..I love to cook and eat
I like when art deals with painful stuff in a funny way...like Monthy Python flying circus Not that I can´t be serious ... most often I am It´s just...some times it´s nice to loosen up And I´m a Dane am I not. We tend to make drawings that provokes!!

@ Pam
I like the expression too. I might use it as a title to a painting. I might dedicate it to San

@ Dacota
Good

Thanks Adele. Maybe it´s the same person as a child and grownup
It´s the human pen Adele

AAAHHH Great. Thanks a lot buddy. Nicomystic..I like the cling to that
good morning to you

....and you were right about the hand Rune. I´m glad you corrected me

great great great. You know how much I value your opinion. It has been very strange working with it, on it, against it ... like being inside an ongoing dream. . Even though I´m finished with it, it keeps talking to me And my brain goes like: "What"?? all the time . I learned a lot tecnically this time. The acrylic colours are great because it allows you to make mistakes and correct them. That´s a very different world compared to the water colour universe

YES! Allan. That´s life for ya!
Many artists tries to frame chaos. This time I couldn´t...I mean..it´s still open.

I´ll let your good words stand untouched. they vibrate perfectly with my thoughts. It´s like an inner life giving massage

@ everybody
Thankyou good ppl. This is why I paint

@ Dacotah
Carol is is then

@ Wickie Lizz


@ Tilla
That´s so fine. Don´t analyze then. The fact that you might understand is beyond what I was capable of I´m still puzzeled and a bit chocked

It makes perfect sense Tilla we´re in the same boat

@ Allan and Isabel
guys guys, you make me so happy. You both represent the two sides of the same coin.
YOU DO SOMETHING WITH IT

You make it come alive

I´m glad it helped you San. I´ll put the ArtMachine to rest for at least a week. I have to finish restoring my windows. They really need a firm hand! I´ll try to find the article on the net

@ Tanya
I just knew you could obtain it Tanya Thankyou so much

@ Hamad
That´s me all right Welcome to opera and welcome here, Hamad.
and i´ll keep on painting for sure

@ San
I need a rest now I´m restoring my windows instead. Tough job BUT I´ll paint again for sure, don´t worry San