Todays weather

Photo taken in Porthsmouth, England.

Momentum

http://www.momentum.no/

Meeting The river Alna friends.

http://www.alnaelva.no/index.php

I engage myself in some quality work for Alna river. One of my favoritt retreats in Oslo. Close to where I grew up.

Map:
http://www.gulesider.no/kart/;jsessionid=cJscPUyJov44jTaFIn#lat%3D6645924.30785%26lon%3D604267.94927%26zoom%3D19%26layers%3D00B00%26tab%3Daddress

Todays weather

Photo taken in Russia, Moskow.

Tilbake i Oslo.

Off to Dale Gudbrands Gard

http://www.oppland.no/Fag-og-tjenester/Kulturvern/Tusenarsstedet-i-Oppland/Hundorp---ein-gard-med-rik-historie/

The prepping

I started working with 3 new canvases. Time elapse from I bought the raw material in store to finished prepared. First stage 10 hours. What I have done: First the wood goes togetter like a puzzel. Then I lay the unprept. canvas on, no streching. No finishing staples. Only 5 on each side. Then for safe sake I wakum the linnen for dust. Then 3 layers of gluing with Pva. glue. I give the drying the minimal of time. I want the canvas to keep the strech it gets from meeting water. (I mix the glue with 2/3 of aqua) Befor the glue dries I finish the first day with one layer of gesso. This because I have noticed that the canvas stays more even stretch, no wobbling corners.

After 24 hourse drying I take the stapels out and loosen the glued canvas from the wood befor streching it back on, like with a finish prepard canvas. Then at last one layer of gesso befor another 12 houre drying.

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