Finally, I am back here to post about my new exhibition. Here are some photos from my exhibition that just opened last weekend, It was a joint exhibition with my two friends Cecilie Mossige and Gunn Tjensvold who are both from this region in Norway and also with an artist from Latvia and a Kurdish…
I have moved my blog to a new site and refreshed the format and layout. It has been a lot of work and now I am very exited and I hope you will like it as much as this blog. For those of you that follow the blog by wordpress.com and got all of my posts straight into your mailbox, you now unfortunately have to subscribe again as a new regular follower. But you will always find the blogposts in the newsfeed. And I will continue following all of you.
The fun thing that I am so proud of, Is that you can sign up a VIP member. for a free library of goodies. I have lots and lots of ideas for things I will add over the coming days. There will be various things in the library – from digital art prints to use in your home, worksheets, and (very very soon) the FREE Course “How to mix and match colour like a pro”, a great resources for all creative people– I hope you’ll find some awesome stuff that brings you further into your journey to be the artist you always wanted to be.
I am super proud to have been featured on Doodlewas!
A big thanks to Charlie O’Shields for featuring Me. You can check it out here see link. There are also many other really great artist and lots of great stuff by Charlie O’Shields like tips and his amazing art!
I’m Magny Tjelta from Stavanger, Norway (follow me on my WordPress blog, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and visit my website!). I studied at the National College of Art and Design in Oslo from 1997 to 2002. I started studying fashion and design but I was so inspired by the sketchbooks the Art students had. I had a friend that studied art and she must have seen that I was amazed by her sketchbooks. She gave me one and that sketchbook became the magical trick to turn me into a professional artist. But it took a couple of years for me to realize that I should study art.
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It is a lovely park which rins down both sides of a little river which flows from the hills into the big fjord in my town, Sandnes.
The park has lots of things to offer such as picnicking, hiking and nature study and yesterday it offerede me some Crocus. Their flowers appear in spring, autumn and winter, so I guess this must be cultivatedbut they are so beautiful I love them at any time of the year. The park was also full of Snowdrops (in Norway we call them Snowbells) and together with the crocus flowers it the first sign of plants pushing up through the last of the frost and snow to tell us that spring is really here.
The delicate green of the leaves and the crocus blue of the flowers are such a contrast to the gray melting snow. It is like a glow of warmth peeking above ground. It makes my heart sing with joy. We norwegians have survived the winter in our well insulated warm wooden houses, but the snow drops and crocuses survived in the ground and now are putting their heads up to greet the spring sunshine.
Well I’m sure you have all guessed by now – I just had to paint them.
I’m still working on my new blog/website. It takes so much work! sooooooo much time! and so much energy! It takes time to create a nice site to browse and enough interesting content and all of that. But I learn a lot and I love it.
Do you blog? How much time do you spend on your site and how much time do you spend on your art? I would love to compare notes with you. Please leave a comment, You know that I always love to hear from you. It gives me the energy and inspiration to keep going.
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I you are going to Stavanger you find info about the park here
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Each month has notes about the important days in the month, interesting information about the month, together with some poetry, entries about the things she did, and sketches and paintings of birds, insects and animals she came across on her regular walks.
It is a beautiful example of how important a journal is. This was obviously done for her own pleasure, but someone (an artist) realized just how inspiring it was and had it published. I find this so interesting. Just think about it, of all the books in the world, one of the best selling books happens to be a beautiful copy of a sketch book! A sketch book that was never intended to be published.
This book gave me lots inspiration, and by the way, it is easy to find a second hand version on Amazon or ebay.
The winter is ending, the plants and flowers are waking up. So now is a great time to get out there and look for them. Show us all what the new spring is bringing in your area, by drawing and painting what you find for us.
The materials I use in the video are:
Two professional secrets for you...
The Molotow masking is the best I have ever had for protecting the page from colour. It is very delicate and is easy to use for details.
I also have to say that the Atelier scrub brush is the best I have found to rub out the masking liquid. It doesn’t leave the residue of an eraser and doesn’t risk oil stains from using a finger. Even more important, it can remove a water colour stain quickly and easily, even the next day. It is only a brush, but it is also one of the secret tools used by professional artists for corrections…
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Now I am slowly filling more pages in my sketch book. There are many small daily experiences, that will, over time, sum up to be my visual diary of the “small things” that I did and saw in 2016.
I enjoy leaving my sketchbook open, and returning to it during the day to continue to fill it up with more flowers, or other things I love.
I often leave it on my table…. open ….. and it will be there, easily accessible for more art work. I want to do this book when I am relaxed, so I will adding new things when I feel like it. Anyway….. when it comes to filling up a sketchbook you know that you are not trying to win a big prize for being the fastest or best drawer. So why not just make your favourite drink and let the inspiration flow?
I LOVE this spiral binding Carnet Aquarelle sketch book from HAHNEMÜHLE that is 400g/m2 (188 lbs).
This is a very thick paper of the matt watercolour board works so well with any watercolour, ink, gouache and is ideal for creative travel diaries and rough treatments and it does everything I want to do. I am seriously amazed. (All the opinions in my blog are my own. I tell you what I really think and no one is paying me to review their products.)
This is what HAHNEMÜHLE say on their web site: Since the 1584 HAHNEMÜHLE have been producing paper of unparalleled quality for artistic. They are one of the leading European paper producers.
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January is a dark month for those of us in the northern hemisphere. But the days are getting longer and, although it is still cold and getting colder, Spring is on the way.
I had some news that made me feel warm inside yesterday. A while ago, I was interviewed for this GREAT blog all about creativity (Wildlycreative.com) and now it has been published.
This site is all about being creative and there are lots of very inspiring interviews from artist, writers, musicians, poets and others, on their creativity. If you want some more ideas on how successful people got started and keep their creativity alive, then you can visit it here.
I have a Winston & Newton box which is 25 years old that I am still using! When I bought it, I didn´t know that he colours were chosen for painting landscapes and nature, I don´t often paint landscapes, and now I prefer to pick the individual colours that I will use. I usually like the colours that are perfect for painting city life, cafes, flowers and people. It might make it a bit more expensive than choosing a ready-made kit, but the different brands offer different prices, so I am sure you will find the product to match your budget. A lot of the brands make a student quality that work great.
A friend of my loves Schmincke watercolours so much that they are the only ones she uses. So, I had to try them out for myself, just to see if I would like them as much as she does.
I bought 12 Schmincke watercolours from their range of 110 colours. Of the 110, 70 are single pigment paints and the use of good reliable pigments is prevalent in this brand. I usually buy the tubes because my art works for exhibitions are large, often 2 to 3 meters high and over 150 cm wide so I need a lot paint. But, when I do sketches for ideas or work in my home studio, I need to have a smaller paint sets. This time I chose the tubes.
The 536 Green Yellow is my new favourite colour.
For me the primary colours (magenta (red but looks like pink), cyan (blue) and primary yellow.) are the most important, and are what I look for first. These are the basic colours of the rainbow and you can make all the other colours from these. When I went to the shop I found magenta but had to choose another blue and yellow, but they worked out just fine. Besides these three colours I chose some earth colours and two that are great for painting skin tones. Burnt Sienna or a Burnt Umber are also great choices but I didn´t take them this time as I wanted to try something new.
Below I show how to combine the 3 primary colours to get all the other colours,
When you are choosing the paint, you also need to consider what you will use them for. If you are doing illustrations or working in an art journal or sketch book , they are all good. But if you are going to exhibit or sell your work you will want to choose a paint that will not fade over time when exposed to sunlight.
One of the colours I chose is not light-resistant but can be perfect for sketchbooks and personal use. I must admit that I will have a problem to keep this colour separate. How on earth will I remember which is the light resistant one? I should have checked more closely before buying this one.
Over all, Schmincke is an great watercolor paint, and has lovely colours that I like, they did their job well because when I mixed the colours I got exactly the shade I wanted. I absolutely love them. They make some colours that the other brands don´t have and my pallet will include these colours from Schmincke in future.
I was able to get the exact colours of the flowers and it was easy with these paints!
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This time I was multitasking as I was sketching, I was in front of the TV watching “Jane the virgin” on Netflix (and by the way I have fallen in love with the show it makes me laugh out loud).
It brought me back in time to the days I did fashion design. and gave me some different ideas.
Fashion drawings like this should be fun and you should enjoy it!
Is this something you like to do? Do you like to getting started? Maybe this can help.
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