#skyddaskogen

Fulufjället, watercolour, 12x17 cm A small painting of a great place. ... Fulufjället, akvarell, 12x17 cm En liten målning av en stor plats.

This lovely forest is just fifteen minutes or so from our house. I'm happy that forests like this can still be found so close to a town centre. Let's keep it that way!

Månsberget, watercolour, 12x17 cm This old forest in Karlstad (Sweden) will be cut down to give place to yet another shopping mall. As if there weren't enough malls already. As if there was still an abundance of old forests.

Up on the ridge, watercolour, 29x19 cm I went to another nature reserve to gather more reference photos for my project. No problems locating it on the map, but it turned out a bit trickier to actually get there. Lots of farmland surrounding it, but eventually I parked the car next to an abandoned house and found a small path through the fields to the forest. I'm not absolutely sure that the house was abandoned, although it showed obvious signs of being just that. The roof had begun to collapse, just as the stairs up to the front door. But when I got out of the car, a black cat snuck inside the house and when I walked up to the house I could see that the door wasn't fully closed and I could hear a faint buzzing sound of a fan of some sort. When I knocked on the door, noone answered... It was like a beginning of a mystery novel. This is my second attempt at painting this image. The first attempt ended up being used to light up the stove.