A Customized Pet Portrait for Christmas?

This is the painting - or, rather the back of it. I promise to turn the canvas when the painting is done. For now, although I have started, I am still half way in the consideration stage, where I keep changing my mind, and changing it back...

As mentioned recently - I am back in my old room on the Danish West coast, settled in and ready to get started on some new work. I don’t know why it always takes me quite a while to start painting in new surroundings. Possibly because everything else has to be in place, before I have the focus and inner peace to get going. I must have found it, the peace and focus, because I have started my first little painting. A personal pet portrait, commissioned as a Christmas present. A few key words are: VERY cute little dachshund, silver, blue, lots of nick names and Royal Copenhagen...

A deadline can a very good and helpful thing, and in this case I think it helped me getting started right NOW, and not in a week. I love the process of making a painting, building it up in my mind, considering and debating... but sometimes actually getting to it can be a bit intimidating. But when I do, I love it! Why is that?

Well... the holidays are coming up - and so I wanted to give an idea for a present for the pet lover who already has EVERYTHING: a personal Customized Pet Portrait! With December just around the corner, I can’t make it in time, but I can indeed offer a gift certificate, and that way the pet owner can have a say in the finished piece...

On the right ☛ a few examples of Customized Pet Portraits I have made over the years. Various sizes are available. Please contact me for more information: petmepaintme@mac.com

Back In My Old Room

My new/ old room. A very different feel from the room I knew, in the 80's and 90's

Goodness - it has been for ever! Seems like a lot has happened since my last words, but that could mainly be in my mind! I have moved all the way from tropical Guam to a very wintery Denmark! It has taken me a while to get settled, to get out of suddenly-chance-location mode, and finding myself again, back here on the Danish West coast. In the very same house I grew up in...

This is now my living-, bed- and work room. Quite literally, half a world away from my tropical studio. It is my old room, the same one I had since I was a child. There is something magical about being back after so many years, and after having lived in so many places. The room looks, smells and feels very different. It is only because I know it is the very same place that, I can truly tell. The view is different too, and yet the same. The trees have grown a lot, and some are gone. During my first weeks, I have enjoyed the backdrop of orange and brown leaves, and a field full of cows, peacefully eating grass, with their mooing and chains as a nice, subtle soundtrack. Such a change from the jungle, palms, boonie dogs and papayas of Guam. I love the change of the seasons, and the view has already changes much more in a month, than my Guam view did within an entire year.

On a more boring/technical note - I’ve had all kinds of practical issues with my website and blog, the reason it has now changed address to http://collagepainter.blogspot.com/

I have spent a couple of intense afternoons in front of the fireplace, moving all my old blog texts to this new site. What will happen about my website is still up in the air. I am checking out options, thinking, considering the best way... Not quite sure yet. In the middle of the move from Guam my computer crashed, and so did the entrance to my old site. I can’t get back in. Like you wake up from a dream and you can’t get back in there. A little annoying, as I liked the way my site looked and worked, but on the other han

d, perhaps this is my big chance to reconsider new and fresh ways. So maybe it is for the better. We’ll soon find out...

Goodness - it has been for ever! Seems like a lot has happened since my last words, but that could mainly be in my mind! I have moved all the way from tropical Guam to a very wintery Denmark! It has taken me a while to get settled, to get out of suddenly-chance-location mode, and finding myself again, back here on the Danish West coast. In the very same house I grew up in...

The view of fall...