An all en Plein Air Project – or something completely different – Forty Friday Afternoons – Magne Myhren

Broad brush-strokes

Forty days throughout a whole year

Travelling ecologically

Limited palette

Shifting lighting conditions

Broad brush-strokes

Winter makes me paint faster, as the coldness creeps into my body. It pushes me towards a more loose style. Perhaps the chill is a friend!

Forty days throughout a whole year

No whether the time of year, nor the weather, frosty hours or the summing of mosquitoes. How will the conditions influence my paintings, my development or my emotions?

Travelling ecologically

Why travel to remote parts of the world, to Antarctica or the Serengeti valley? As long as there are some possible chance to use my legs to get to where I wish in my neighborhood, I will be pushing my will!

Limited palette

The numbers of colours in nature are countless! Still I can get quite close to reality with just a small amount of different tubes. Will the colours also affect me?

Shifting lighting conditions

The lighting of a scene can be changed In a few minutes. If I paint some darker strokes thinly in the beginning, it will be possible to lay in the lit parts on top, instead of waiting in the end - when it might be too late.

In and out of the digital screens.

Follow me on my journey! It's a real world journey as I travel with my equipment into the woods for forty afternoons throughout a year. Possibly it's also a personal inner travelling. I hope and think that I somehow will change as a person. I present every painting that I paint during these forty afternoons without exceptions. I do this because I wish to show the true story. Some of the paintings are embarrassing to me. Still I show them off. In this plastic and digital age it is sometimes hard to tell the real from the false. Through digital screens I will try to evoke some urge in you for going out into the woods in order to get some spare time from the ever present digital screens. Escape from living on the surface to dig into deeper grounds. Smell wet soil or feel the rain as it drops from your hair...

Friday 40 Project is finished

Day forty – Friday August 31– 2018. Starting at 1440

A little more than two hours

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 39

Day thirty-nine– Friday August 17 – 2018. Starting at 1545

1 hour 20 minutes

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 38

Day thirty-eight – Friday August 10 – 2018. Starting at 1500

1 hour 30 minutes

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 37

Day thirty-seven – Friday August 3 – 2018. Starting at 1445

1 hour 35 minutes

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 36

Day thirty-six– Friday July 13 – 2018. Starting at 1445

1 hour 45 minutes

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 35

Day thirty-five – Friday July 6 – 2018. Starting at 1515

1 hour 45 minutes

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 34

Day thirty-four – Friday June 15 – 2018. Starting at 1515

1 hour 15 minutes

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 33

Day thirty-tthree – Friday June 8 – 2018. Starting at 1445

1 hour 15 minutes

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 32

Day thirty-two – Friday June 1 – 2018. Starting at 1445

1 hour

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 31

Day thirty-one – Friday May 29 – 2018. Starting at 1545

1 hour 30 min

30cm x 30cm

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