participants’ paintings; black and white swans, colour pattern; watercolour and wax crayons on paper
Author: helenahildur
I’ll let you be in my dreams… II
art, recent work, teaching
I’ll let you be in my dreams, if I can be in yours
art, recent work, teaching
These weeks I spend together with a group of people – or rather: friends, since we have known and appreciated each others for years, mostly. It is very much alike the NUrope community in some aspects – such as the friendliness and the communicative atmosphere – but unlike the merited persons who constitute NUrope (and other institutions), these friends have often been spoken of as ‘disabled’… which may be logical from some normative point of view, but certainly not as a general characteristic, or – especially – when it comes to the creative exploring of invisible space… which is our common venture here.
participants’ self portraits; wax crayons, watercolour on paper
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uncategorizedjust a slight change of focus;
from the richnesses of one single language
to a translatory state of mind
quiet days VII
art
beeswax V
recent work
rose and Rose
What’s so special about the beeswax binder colourwash technique? Its way of interacting with light. With different tints in subsequent layers, it changes infinitely. Electric light can bring out certain shades, while daylight makes its colours shift incessantly. It takes up the light in a way similar to human skin, reflecting from under the surface. And so it brings out the beauty of people being there.
This work is finished, now I will be back in the atelier for a while.
beeswax IV
recent work
From blue to rose to yellow; in the tiny hallway, the cool ultramarine and caput mortuum tints were changed out for raw terra di Siena, to add more warmth to the pompeiian red (already in itself a gentle, warm earthen tone).
In the kitchen, a light first colourwash with red was through the following layers turned to a pale clear yellow; one final layer of ultramarine violet, almost invisible, closed the circle.
beeswax III
recent work
colour samples, translucent beeswax paint
Follow the daylight; that is, where the morning sun comes in, colour should bring out its bright, warm character. Noonday light is sharper and may need softening and modulation according to the room’s size and its use. The light of the setting sun, again, has yet another quality; here it reaches into the livingroom and the bedroom with their greyish rose/blue shades.
beeswax II
recent work
From blue to rose; here, colour design is based on two pigments, ultramarine and pompeiian red; different proportions make different colours. Add caput mortuum to cool the red, or cinnabar to heighten it. A smaller room will concentrate the impression, while a larger room enlargens. Follow daylight.
lazure painting with beeswax
recent work
pompeiian red, ultramarine and caput mortuum, second layer
Performing colour design and wall painting in a private home; Mats, my employer, keeps Nina Simone, Procul Harum, Joni Mitchell and The Band turning on the record player while I blend beeswax binder with pigments; Miles the cat is listening and watching.
This is colour exercise on a larger scale. At a certain point – by the third layer or so – colour becomes present in the room as a body of light, changing with time.
For professional services in colour design and painting, please contact: helenahildur@telia.com (or leave a comment below)
For basic information about layerpainting indoors: http://www.fargbygge.se/
For Joni Mitchell singing an experienced version of Both sides, now :
Helena Hildur W. 
