Dear all portrait artists

Grethe Angen · 12-15-2006, 09:30 PM

Hello all you great portrait artists.I looked around this forum for a while, and I am so thrilled to find names known from my various artists magazines, among the members here. I live in Norway and do not have any connection with other artists interested in portraiture where I live, so it is most valuable for me to be accepted as a member. Thank you. in return I am hoping to somehow contribute to this forum. I have been dedicated to the art of portraiture for many years. I have done some commissions, but consider myself on an advanced student level. I work mostly in dry media , but plan to develop a technique in oil painting. I have been mentored in the discipline known (or maybe not so known )as Nerdrum School here in Norway. I did intensive portrait drawing studies at the Florence Academy ,Italy. I plan to develop further the traditional sight size method . as well as exploring the possibilities whit my Canon 350D
Here is two sample of my work

Terri Ficenec · 12-16-2006, 01:16 AM

Welcome Grethe! . . . and thanks for sharing your work with us.

I especially like the head study you posted -- nicely done.

Grethe Angen · 12-16-2006, 07:32 AM

Thank you very much , Terri.

Alexandra Tyng · 12-16-2006, 10:09 AM

Welcome to the forum, Grethe! If you jump in and start posting your work, you will get to know many other artists. I've gotten to know many people through the forum and it has definitely enlarged my "art world." Like Terri, I'm partial to your head study, and I also especially like the composition of your triple portrait and the face of the boy.

Alex

Claudemir Bonfim · 12-16-2006, 11:11 AM

Hello there Grethe and welcome.

Nice drawings, hope to see more of your work here.

Allan Rahbek · 12-16-2006, 08:08 PM

Welcome to the forum, dear neighbor's, I should say. I live in Denmark and is one of very few Nordic inhabitants active on this forum.

It is exciting to see that others from our "ravnekrog / utstr

Tom Edgerton · 12-16-2006, 08:46 PM

Grethe--

Glad you're on board...thanks for these posts!

--TE

Marina Dieul · 12-16-2006, 09:48 PM

Hi Grethe,
nice work. Welcome to the forum.

Grethe Angen · 12-17-2006, 02:40 PM

How nice to hear from you all,
Alexandra; I am happy to hear you like the composition in the tripe, in the first place I did`t want to do three in one. But this was commissioned and the mum wanted all her children in one drawing.
Claudemir: thank you very much.or muito obrigado.
Allan: it is indeed nice to meet a neighbor here, and thank so much for the link, I will look into it, sounds very interesting. Tusen takk.
Tom Glad to be here, thank you.
Marina Thank you very much, too

Mischa Milosevic · 12-17-2006, 04:29 PM

Grethe, my sincere welcome.