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mk  ·  3317 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 25, 2015

For the third time now, I have found a white hair on my head that is brown at the root. I am Benjamin Button.

Getting near completion of my second oil painting, a view from mike's camp on the fjord:

I need to dial it all back a touch. Trying to figure out what to paint next. I'm not in love with this one, but it was more difficult than the last, and I learned some things.





mike  ·  3317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wow! Nice work mk!

Here's the same fjord from the other side of the hill, with my dog, at dawn.

user-inactivated  ·  3317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just spent a week in Iceland discovering that fjords are the most beautiful thing that exists. You ever been?

mike  ·  3317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Only for a refueling stop. Iceland is on my shortlist. Fantastic country. Fjords are definitely something to see!

(btw, in Norwegian Iceland is spelled Island, which is also kinda cool.)

user-inactivated  ·  3317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In Iceland too, with an accent mark. I guess it's not a coincidence? I dunno.

PS: I made a special map detailing the most beautiful section of road I have ever driven, for your reference. It's the green part.

mike  ·  3317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wonderful! I plan to visit next year. Beautiful and strange country. I'm envious of your trip!

user-inactivated  ·  3316 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nice. I'm fairly sure every third person I saw was from Scandinavia. March is the time to go, supposedly.

thenewgreen  ·  3317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love it. Will you, at some point allow me to purchase one of your paintings? I'd love to have the artwork of one of my closest friends on my wall.... but I'd settle for yours.

mk  ·  3317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No purchase necessary.

ButterflyEffect  ·  3317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I found one like that earlier too. White hair in your early 20s is a bad time.

That's a beautiful painting, I'd imagine the view is even better in person (are there pictures around here of the camp? I feel like there are). What are you doing with your completed paintings?

mk  ·  3317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks. Here it is from above:

Perhaps mike or steve can share some more.

It's been a while since I was painting last. I have huge house paint on metal paintings in storage, of a very different style. My wife wouldn't let me part with my last oil one, and she hung it in our house. I'm not sure what to do. In some sense it'd be cool to create a stockpile so I can see my progress, then unload them at once. But I don't care too much one way or the other. It'd be kind cool to get this one in Norway.