An all en Plein Air Project – or something completely different – Page 2 – 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 30

Day thirty – Friday May 18 – 2018. Starting at 1420

1 hour 30 min

30cm x 30cm

Oils

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Friday 29

Day twenty-nine – Friday May 11 – 2018. Starting at 1445

1 hour 30 min

30cm x 30cm

Oils

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Friday 28

Day twenty-eight– Friday May 4 – 2018. Starting at 1500

A bit more than two hours

30cm x 30cm

Oils

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Friday 27

Day twenty-seven– Friday April 27 – 2018. Starting at 1430

2 hours

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 26

Day twenty-six– Friday April 20 – 2018. Starting at 1445

1 hour 45 min

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 25

Day twenty-five – Friday April 13 – 2018. Starting at 1550

1 hour 45 min

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 24

Day twenty-four – Friday April 6 – 2018. Starting at 1345

1 hour 45 min

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 23

This “Friday” had to be a Monday

Day twenty-three – Monday April 2 – 2018. Starting at 1300

A little more than two hours

30cm x 30cm

Oils

As the Friday this week was Good Friday, I had to wait until Monday to paint. Family first!

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Friday 22

Day twenty-two – Friday March 23 – 2018. Starting at 15:30

About two hours

30cm x 30cm

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Friday 21

Day Twenty-one – Friday March 9 – 2018. Starting at 15:00

1 hour, 40 min

30cm x 30cm

Oils

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