Abstract Realist oil painting inspired by plans for the future and assessing what can be done next… URL: www.anettkilenkennedy.com
Norway, the most beautiful country in the world – or so I personally think. Endlessly inspiring, every view mesmerising, I love it. I have tried to emphasise the ever-present tranquility by focusing on this pile of stones, quite a common site in western norway incidentaly. / I hope you like it!
This is my Norwegian Forest Cat, Pussel. / With a touch of Orton´s on the left picture. Top10, April 2009, in Cats and Dogs / Featured, April 2009, in Cat and Dogs /
Section 1 of Norwegian Wood Triptych
Beautiful Norwegian Fjord horse sporting her winter coat basking in the lovely sunshine! Photo taken December 10, 2007.
“Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” triptych, 24×48” charcoal and pastel on Mylar Based on the Beatles tune of the same title. “I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me.” This ended up a much more difficult project than expected and was on the easel for a full month. It’s the next in the ongoing White Album series. I used three photos of my daughter for the work, cropped and manipulated in the computer until I found the composition I liked. I decided to do a triptych because I liked all three photos and thought they looked well together. I took the photos 2 years ago in the cemetery down the block from our home. My model was fascinated by a fallen mature oak, and was sitting on the trunk in the second view photo. She chose the clothing for the shoot, but I changed the t-shirt design to work with the theme for my piece, which is bird extinction. The triptych is charcoal on a heavy weight mylar drafting film, and was worked on the frosted side. There is a backing of Canson pastel paper in moonstone (a pink gray) because the translucent paper needs some backing, and white was too stark for the effect I was attempting to achieve. There are small touches of “white charcoal” – white pastel pencil for highlights, I also used a gray pastel pencil in some of the tree areas. The mylar is a very slick surface and fun to work on, and has more of a sensation of painting because of the “oiliness” of the charcoal on the mylar. Delicate areas are quite difficult to achieve. If you rub your finger over a fairly lightly covered area, the paper wipes clean, so soft gradations are troublesome. You can build up dark layers of charcoal and lighten it to gray by rubbing with your fingers, or erase back down to the surface with a kneaded eraser. I purposely left much of the work rough because the surface works so well for that. The finished work has a very interesting glow in person that doesn’t photograph well. The frosted finish is quite lovely – almost like human skin in sheen. Framed as a triptych, custom frame by my husband Steve White.
A beautiful aboretum in Norway. More species of trees than you can believe and each season brings new surprises….
Views across the Norwegian arctic
© Jamie Lamb Photography, 2009. All Rights Reserved. Norwegian Cruise lines had decided due to the Swine Flu {H1N1 Flu} to divert it’s cruises into Victoria, BC. This is considered the largest cruise ship to have ever come into Victoria. It’s a large ship but it really didn’t seem any larger then any other, just a thought. Ogden Point looking towards Clover Point Cruise Ship Docks, Victoria, BC Canon 40D , 50 mm, ISO 100, F/22 / 5 images separated by 1 stops. / Photomatrix, PhotoShop Cruise Ship Docks, Victoria, BC .Featured in Night Photography /
My cat Pussel in one of the big birches on my yard. Featured, March 2009 in the Cat & Dog group
My girlfriend and I met amazingly friendly people in Norway, and one of our new friends loaned us a rowboat to head out to Turtle Island near Moi, Norway. Thank you Marethe.
This old Norwegain fisherman was very concentrated on his catch of the day.
Off in a new direction…
section 2 from Norwegian Wood Triptych, charcoal on mylar
My Norwegian Forest Cat. Her name is Pussel. / More to read here: Norwegian Forest Cat Feature 2008, in Amazing Orton Effect / Feature 2008, in Cats and Dogs /
This is Juju, another one of our rescues. She is also my familiar.
Akershus castle in winter, Oslo, Norway
Welcoming doorway in Bergen on the west coast of Norway. The summer flowers and colors made it so inviting.
9×12 watercolor enhanced colored pencil. Original available. The attractive Norwegian Fjord, with its pronounced dorsal stripe and zebra-barred legs, is closest in appearance to the primitive Mongolian or Asian Wild Horse (Przewalski’s Horse) from which it descends. Since Viking times, it has been traditional to cut the coarse mane so that it is erect, the central black hair standing above the rest. / BREEDING Descended from Przewalski’s Horse, the Fjord also has more than a suggestion of Tarpan influence. This horse of the Vikings was taken in longboats to Scotland’s Western Isles and to Iceland. Bred throughout Scandinavia, but principally in Norway, the Fjord is exported to Germany, Denmark, and central European countries where its qualities of endurance and hardiness are highly valued. / CHARACTERISTS The powerful, compact Norwegian Fjord is a versatile animal. It takes the place of the tractor on mountain farms, it will plow and carry pack loads over steep tracks, and it is as good under saddle as in harness. It is economical to keep and courageous, but has a will of it’s own. (information from Eyewitness Handbooks – Horses) Complete 2006
Shot from Herdlevær, west of Bergen center Norway
Norwegian Jewel leaving the port of Piraeus. 7 shot HDR merged in photomatix pro! Postwork to remove some ghosting by the moving objects! Nikon D200 / Tokina 12-24 @12mm / F:11 / 1/60 / Iso 100 Cokin Sunset filter / Cokin 3stop ND grad
Caracter design for the North Wind, from the Scandinavian Fairy Tale, ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’
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