Acrylic on canvas, 40 × 50 cm
«Summer Sketch No. 1»
This summer I decided to create a series of small, fast summer sketches.
Life looks a little different this year. I’m spending the summer mostly on my own with three children, balancing painting, work, family life, endless meals, laundry, trips, and all the beautiful chaos that comes with motherhood.
So instead of large, complex paintings, I’m allowing myself something simpler: quick impressions, small formats, bold brushstrokes, a touch of graphic lines, and moments captured before they disappear.
We’re also leaving soon for a month-long journey, collecting new landscapes, colors, and memories along the way.
This is the first painting in the series — a summer sunset. Whether your days are already warm or still waiting for sunshine, I hope this season brings all of us more golden evenings, slower moments, and a little extra light.
☀️ What does summer look like where you are right now?
Every year I go on a canoe trip in Northern Minnesota with my friends. The area where we paddle is a wild and remote region called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. I have such great memories of these trips, so it’s a joy to paint this scene.
BLUE CANOE ON SHORE, Acrylic, 16x16”
This feels like the kind of place where breakfast quietly turns into lunch.
And nobody involved sees a problem with that.
“Late Start”, 25X35cm.
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