Dear blogger friend, I am sorry about the lack of action on saaraspaintings.com. My family faced some change, and we are all still adjusting. I have not had the time nor the energy for anything else than my daytime job, household stuff, and taking care of the kids; the essential. I miss painting, I miss [...]
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Still Nothing
Posted in the creative process on March 15, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Until Now
Posted in the creative process, tagged art, painting on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You may have noticed this: until now I’ve been posting paintings I started painting earlier. I went through all the boards I had kept in the closet. Most of them were quite bad (as in absolutely awful) , and I painted them white or threw them away. Some of them I kept, and finished. You’ve [...]
When Mikael Met Anna
Posted in acrylic, canvas on board, daily painters, gift, mug, my kids paint, orange, red, the creative process, tagged art, painting on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever given a non-finished painting as a gift? My friends Anna and Mikael got engaged in the fall 2007, and I actually gave them a grey sketch. I promised to finish it later when I knew the color scheme of their future home, or something. ‘Later’ turned out to be today, two and [...]
Daily Paintings
Posted in daily painters, the creative process on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I check on some of the most well-known daily painters. If you are new to the concept you might want to visit Carol Marine, or Justin Clayton, or Jeffrey Hayes. The idea is to paint a painting a day or at least one each week. Usually the daily paintings are small and can easily be [...]
Pears. Let Us Begin With Pears.
Posted in acrylic, available, canvas on board, orange, pears, the creative process, tagged art, painting on January 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
As long as I can remember I’ve been drawing and painting every day, all the time. On the train, in the bus, at home, at school. When I turned 20 I stopped. There was a period of almost no painting or sketching or anything at all. We are talking about a decade, even longer. All [...]
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