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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Portrait sketches

Trough the years I made thousands of small and bigger portrait sketches

They lie in drawers and in boxes between books and fill up lots of sketchbooks.

Here are some of them.

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Dan
Drypoint etching

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Dan
Pastel on Paper

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Dan with cat

Wearing those crazy big glasses of the 80ties

Pencil on Paper

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Dan

Pencil on Paper

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Dan sour

Pencil on paper

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Me in bed sick with Lumonia
Pastel on Paper

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Me ,sick with Fewer and Lumonia
Pastel on paper

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Portrait of my sister
Charlotte Ranslet writing
Drawing

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Elisabeth Westenholz at the Piano with one of her dogs
Oilcolor on Paper

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Portrait of fellow student Frederick Preizler

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Portrait if the Swedish painter and sculptor Anna Maria Muhr
Drawing

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Me
Color pencil on Paper

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Pencil on Paper

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Selfportrait
Oilcolors on Paper

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Elisabeth Westenholtz practices
Watercolor on Paper

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Artist
Drawing

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Me wearing the Egyptian Scarab
Oil on Paper

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Monika
Drawing

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Monika sleeping
Pencil on Paper

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Monika in Blue
Oil on Paper

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Girl
Drawing

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Cat and Man
Tusch on Paper

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Man and his cat

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"Get the pig out"
This sketch doesn't fit into this post, but I can't get it out of this posting , just like the pig in the picture !
Drawing

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Model

Drawing

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Albert Schweitzer
Lithographic print

Many years I drew sketches of Albert Schweitzer for the concert catalogs
to the Albert Schweitzer foundation in Münster
I will show more of them in a future post

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Face of Mas murderer

Drawing

His angelical handsome looks seemed unfair for a man so evil .

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Drawing

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Pencil

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Ugly me.
colorpencil on Paper

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Sleeping man

Pastel on paper

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My grandmother sleaping

Pencil on paper

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Salvatore reads
Sepia on Paper

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Anna
Pastel on Paper

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Charlotte writing

Pencil on Paper

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Sketches

I sketch much but never use the sketches for paintings

They just get piled and forgotten , but some are not bad so I thought

to show a few of them here. Some sketchbooks I gave away
forgetting to take photos of the sketches in them.
If any of you still have this small books of mine, please scan the content and send me.

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Wood
Pencil drawing

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Danish Wood
Pencil on Paper

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Clouds over fields on Bornholm
Pastell on Paper

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Bohuslen
Oil on Canvas

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Blue Hour on the north of Bornholm
Watercolour on Paper

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Cows in midday light
Pastell on Paper

I love cows, the smell of them and their heavy calmness, love the sound of the flies summing around them and their constant chewing. They are kind animals. And so patiently still, always willing so be painted. Each is an individual with a different character and different behavior.
I think the life on Bornholm was as close as one could get to Paradise.
Now with economical bad times it is no longer possible to survive with a small farm and 14 cows who all know their name and love their place in the stable and wait for the daily nice brushing. Farms have become factories.Cows have only numbers and weight, age or milk quotas they have to reach to be profitable. No time for the individual animal.They don't get sick any longer so filled up with Antibiotics.
How do they feel in, their complicated stomachs from so much antibiotics? I know how I feel after 10 days of penicillin. AWFUL!
Open big stables without windows with full light on the whole night so noisy from 400-4000 animals, how can they sleep? I pity them, this is inhumane. I guess it is as close to Hell as possible for them.

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Cows in afternoon light
Pastel on Paper

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Staring cows
Pencil on Paper

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"Cows grassing"
Oil on Canvas

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The Pole, Svolvaer Norway
Pastell on Paper

There is a nice artist house in Svolvaer in the North of Norway. Artists can seek to get
a period of time there, The house has nice workshops big kitchen and a small rowing boat so
one can catch a fresh Codfish for the meal. I went there once.
Found it hard to capture the sizes of the mountains. There were bikes for the artists use ,and I biked around. But to get around or just pass one single mountain I had to bike one or two full days. It seemed like all my movements became slow motioned compared to the size of the mountains. 2 hours heavy wheeling and still the exact same view as if I had not moved a centimeter. Should have sketched on cartons 2 x 3 meters or 10 meter times 3 ,that would have given the unsteady feeling in the knees,and the a better feeling of the view. On an island without mountains you are always having the feeling of control, it takes an hour at the most to get to a point in your horizon. But in Svolvaer just give up, you are no bigger than an insect and You'll never get to the horizon.