Project: Painting a swirly tree on the wall (part 1)

I recently just moved into my boyfriend's house, and I realised that it was way too boyish/bachelor looking for my taste. The house had all the typical manly tech items, like the massive TV, surround sound system, and a whole room just dedicated to his computer. There was nothing wrong with the furniture (they are all really new and stylish) but he didn't have one single decorative item in the house. That needed changing! The house was in desperate need of a woman's touch!

I started off small; putting a nice table cloth on the dinner table, placing candle holders in almost every room, putting up a little wine rack in the kitchen, etc... But that wasn't enough for my artistic soul...

So I gave myself a bigger project. And in this case bigger means that I made my boyfriend chuck his computer out, and I decided to change his office into a nice little arty room for myself. (Selfish? Naah... he never spent time in that room anyway!)

I started painting over the ugly boyish light blue walls, but I wouldn't settle for just plain colours. Sure, I decided to paint 3 of the 4 walls white (I painted the 4th one in a beautiful olive green colour), but my big project is that I am painting a big tree on one of the walls. It's massive actually.

I haven't actually painted it yet, but I projected my design on the wall yesterday, and drew the lines with a light pencil, so I've got a good idea of what it's going to look like.

My design of the tree I'm about to paint (with inky pen on A4 paper)

See how the tree turned out here:
Swirly tree on the wall (part 2)
Swirly tree on the wall (part 3)

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Another portrait

Another portrait. This one is of one of my best friends - Josefin.
This panting was (just as the other ones) made with acrylic paint, and I painted it in 2009.
I really enjoyed painting this portrait, since Josefin had a very special style back in the days. Quite extreme, with different coloured dreadlocks, and often very colourful Manga inspired clothes. As you can probably guess, this is not the first time I make a portrait of this pretty girl.

(I'm sorry about the bad quality of the photo. It was taken with my old camera phone)

Portraits - great presents

Once I started to get the hang of painting with acrylic colours I realised that paintings were great to give away to people as presents. I didn't have a great job at the time, and could therefore not afford really fancy presents. These are some of the paintings I've given to people for their birthdays. All the paintings are portraits. The first one is of my sister, the second one is of my ex boyfriend, and the third one is of my ex boyfriend's sister when she was about 5 years old. I must admit that the second one is my favourite, as I was working with contrasts only on this painting. (the quality of this picture isn't great though, since I photographed the painting with my old mobile camera)
What do you think?