I've always considered frogs to have a very appealing physiognomy, and it's a grateful form to be working with when sketching. Their long fingers that can hold on to anything from slippery leaves to sharp rocks, their big, round curious eyes and gaping mouths, and the glossy skin that can show of all kinds of vibrant colors and exquisite patterns. One of the things I love most about painting is that to make a truly good and accurate painting, you have to make careful studies of the objects you depict, weather it's an imaginary motive or a highly realistic one. And it's not just about studying the appearance of what you're painting, but it's in almost every case equally important to study the facts surrounding the motive to produce an accurate contextual image. And when it comes to interesting facts, frogs does not hold short. There is for example a family of frogs called glass frogs whose name refers to the fact that they have transparent skin on their bel...
Incoherent musings, en människa emellan.