Pretty & Pink

The first four paintings (acrylics on 4x4" canvas) that I've made of pretty girls with pink background. Hopefully, I'll have about six to bring to M.I.C.E., where I will have half a table this coming Saturday. I love painting these, it's so much fun!

Greenland & Iceland

Sketches from Iceland

Nuuk, Greenland

Kapisillit, Greenland

This summer, I went to Greenland to visit a friend, via Iceland. I took about a million photos while I was there, the landscape in Greenland is amazingly beautiful, and reminds me of Norway, but--and I am reluctant to admit this in public--even more dramatic. Most of the sketches I did there were funny ones, describing what we did and where we went. In Iceland, however, I sketched as we drove around. We had rented a fourwheel-drive Lada (of all things!), that drove like a tank in the city, but was perfect for backroad driving. It was a bumpy ride on the unpaved roads, but I started the sketches in the car and finished them as we stopped along the way. The landscape in the interior of Iceland was very different from Greenland. The ground was barren, black, volcanic. Dramatic in its own way, and the clouds overhead seemed to be as much a part of the landscape as the ground, giving it also a shifting, restless character. This was not my first time in Iceland, but it seemed different somehow from when I first came here...probably because we took a tourbus back then, but drove around on our own this time. On those deserted roads, on a cold and windy Sunday, one can easily feel all alone in the world, lost in a strange and eerie landscape.