paintings – Merete Hov ART

Posted on 14. July 20218. December 2021 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — Leave a comment

“FISHING EXPEDITION”

Mixed Media/Encaustic on panel, 40×28 cm

Posted on 13. June 2021 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — Leave a comment

Second play on these, I’ve got my very first set of pan-pastels and I just had to try, this is a pearlescent white to black set, and the luster is more visible in real life. So far, the only wax paint is the white, the rest is powder and incised marks, a lot to explore and I truly love this medium!

Posted on 18. December 202019. December 2020 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — 4 Comments

Finished paintings

Finished, these three have waited for well over a year, but now I finally am calling them done!
First painting: “Looking back, it was cold and dark”
Second painting: “A Mug of Memories”
Third painting: ” Hurricane Seasons”
All paintings: Mixed Media/Oil/Cwm on paper. 28 x 20 cm.

Posted on 17. September 202017. September 2020 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — Leave a comment

Set of four under progress

Exploring and playing! Here is the set of four that I posted yesterday, somewhat darker in values. I didn’t plan them to look like this, all I wanted was to have more dark gems to play with before going higher key again. All paintings will be high key in the end, is the plan…

Posted on 10. September 2020 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — 4 Comments

EXPLORING painting under progress

GOING HIGH KEY AND GOING ABSTRACT, WHICH I HAVE BEEN MISSING A LOT

Exploring, I mean really exploring this time. I decided in a blink of a second that I wanted to go high key, it has been many mid-tone and darker landscapes lately, I wanted to go light and I wanted to go abstract! So, this is today’s total transformation of yesterday’s exploration. Also attaching some closeups. I feel much better now doing something drastic, comments are much appreciated

Posted on 3. September 2020 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — Leave a comment

“IN THE LOOP” work under progress

Just had to loosen up a bit today, so here is an explore stage painting, done on top of numerous play stages, and in a hurry because it was starting to rain Working title is: “IN THE LOOP”, acrylic on panel

Posted on 2. September 2020 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — 14 Comments

“Somewhere south would be nice” work under progress.

This painting is almost finished, I love to play with these rectilinear shapes, houses can be so much, they can contain so much and say so much about the builder and mean so much for the viewer. The next moves on this painting will be to keep the values in check, and to add some more details, yet without loosing the looseness and atmosphere. A bit of tweaking and hopefully this one will soon be ready for framing.

Posted on 2. September 2020 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — 4 Comments

Abstracted Landscape, work under progress

This painting is still in explore stage, which means that I am taking risks, taking drastic steps, trying out ideas, am scratching, applying, subtracting while wet. Then sanding, and more layers, more sanding, scratching and so forth. I find this stage to be the most challenging of them all, when the mind must be open and quickly be responding to these changes, when I must dare to loose, to paint over what I loved, in order to achieve a more interesting expression further down the way.