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Category Archives: Art work
Street art of Funchal, Madeira
The history of the painted doors and murals in Funchal, the capital of Madeira, is an intriguing reflection of the island’s rich cultural heritage and the mix of different influences over the centuries.
You find many of the doors and murals along the narrow, cobbled streets of Zona Velha (the old town). One of the most distinctive features is the artistic and decorative style, a reflection of both European traditions and local craftsmanship. Many doors feature wooden panels carved with motifs inspired by Madeira’s natural environment – palm leaves, vines, and flowers.
In the late 20th century, a vibrant street art project was born here, when local artists and residents decided to transform the old, weathered doors of the houses into canvases. Today, these painted doors tell a different kind of story: one of modern creativity, community, and resilience. The project, known as the Arte Portas Abertas (Open Doors Art), has become a symbol of Funchal’s identity. Artists use the doors to express everything from abstract designs to scenes of daily life, and even political or social commentary. The area has become an open-air gallery, that open not just to homes, but to the stories of Madeira itself.
[See also Hiking on Madeira]
The Christmas Card
Wikipedia: “A Christmas card is a greeting card sent as part of the traditional celebration of Christmas in order to convey between people a range of sentiments related to Christmastide and the holiday season. Christmas cards are usually exchanged during the weeks preceding Christmas Day by many people (including some non-Christians) in Western society and in Asia. The traditional greeting reads “Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year“.
The first commercially available card was commissioned by Sir Henry Cole and designed by John Callcott Horsley in London 1843.
Heard that after 180 years of history, this year (2023) might be the last year people send Christmas cards by “snail mail”, since the postage is going to be very expensive in 2024, due to the decrease in letter correspondence and increase in costs.
Back in the 1980’s I designed and printed Christmas post cards and sent to family, friends and customers. Made by airbrush on paper (except one that is with ink)
In 2011 I started designing digital season greeting cards, playing with Adobe Photoshop:
And Happy New Year cards:
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Images – Project 2014
The 2014 project is to work with images in different medias:
- photography
- sort, scan and digitizing old and new photos
- play and learn more Photoshop
- take up drawing and painting again…
Follow:
- Moderskeppet
- Photoshop on Facebook / Linked In
- Lynda.com
- Smashingmagazine
- Noupe
- and more …
Street art – London by Nathan Bowen
Drawings
Another trip down memory lane. During the 80’s I had a small screen printing and graphic art studio. It was in the age before the computer. Frequent use of Letraset, repro camera and Xerox copy machine…
Here is a gallery of some of the designs, a mix of T-shirt painting , posters, screen print designs etc:
See more under Drawings
Cover Art
Inspired by the website The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies, I went down memory lane and found some of my books and magazines from the early days…
Ski posters
Added a new Art gallery, a collection of ski posters I made for the Novo Nordisk Ski club…
Made in Sixty One
A month has already passed 🙂
Hyper Realistic Art
When I used to paint I used acrylic paint and brush or water color and pencils. I use photos as reference and like to be as realistic as possible and sometimes exaggerate details.
On Moderskeppets blogg I just red about Bert Monroy who take it to the extreme using Photoshop and Illustrator to make Hyper Realistic Art. Bert also share his knowledge on Revision 3.com.
His latest project is a “painting” of Times Square, NYC.
Acrylic
Finally the collection of my acrylic paintings is on line.
Most of the paintings are made from photos from our round the world trip 1989-1990. A few are made as orders. For instance a friend or customer showed me an image and asked if I could paint that on canvas or hardboard.
The genre could be called realism. I thought it was called magic realism but I learned that that genre refers to realistic paintings with one or more magic details in the picture.
After a few years in the basement collecting dust, some of them has been moved up to a wall in the living room.