First layers of acrylic, then oil, as usual :) I still love painting hands, and in this I got the chance to do that. All the knuckles and veins are very exciting and intriguing to paint. 

Below, I have started on the oil. It makes it easier to smoothen out the skin tones and to get a unifying feeling to the painting. 

Here it is done and framed and hanging at the gallery.  Last chance to see the exhibition will be this weekend, Friday-Sunday 12:00-16:00, Galleri Lilla Vågen, Kristinehamn. Some paintings will already be picked up from their new owners before the exhibition is over so if you want to see them all, I'd recommend to pass by on Friday :)

Here is the official poster of the exhibition and just a little reminder that it will be open for two more weekends. :) 

Unfortunately I don't have any before-pictures of this one, but I remember it was kind of a struggle to get it right. It looks like such an easy thing to paint, but it was far from effortless. I think I had to apply oil in three different layers (apart from the layers of acrylic underneath). ​I almost gave up on it, but I didn't and now it is one of my favorites. One of the reasons why I like it is because it looks like it has a depth to it when you study it from afar. It is also one of the least realistic ones I have on display at the exhibition.

Here it is hanging in the gallery and it was one of the first ones to get sold.

Photo credit: Magnus Carlsson, NKP. Read the article in Swedish here. 

Last Wednesday, Magnus Carlsson from NKP payed me a visit for a small interview about my solo show. I had just arrived to our flat in Kristinehamn from Frankfurt a couple of hours earlier.  The thing is that I have painted a little less than half of the paintings for the exhibition in my studio in Sweden, and the rest at our place in Germany. We actually temporarily transformed our flat there to a painting slash frame-building workshop. I planned it in such a way that the paintings would fit into my suitcase and I crossed my fingers and prayed that they wouldn't break while flying. Luckily, just one frame got a little damaged, but S. fixed that in time for the opening (and S. built almost all the frames for the entire collection). Couldn't have asked for better help than from the now master-of-frame-building :)

Anyways, you can read the article in the link above or see a short video of the gallery at my Instagram account. If you want to see the exhibition live, it is open tomorrow Sunday from 12-16 pm (same opening hours on Friday-Sunday until the end of May).  Hope you enjoy it!

Here are a couple of pictures of Featherlite. The first one is an early stage of acrylic, and the second one is after the oil had been applied. I made the feather a little thicker and the skin a little smoother. Most of the time I have a hard time showing paintings to others before they are completely done, since they look so ugly in the first stage of the process and I feel like criticizing them aint completely fair due to the fact  that they will look very different in the end. On the other hand, seeing the potential in that ugliness is a motivational factor to keep me going.