International Student Festival
In Trondheim
— a painting
Concept and execution.
In the beautiful year of 2018, my partner Cody and I made a large painting on commission by ISFiT (International Student Festival in Trondheim). The piece was to be exhibited at events related to the festival, as well as at KiT (Trondheim Academy of Fine Art).
This year’s festival theme was migration, a theme quite fitting considering our recent relocation from Perth to Trondheim earlier that year. We decided to create an image capturing Cody’s experience moving to Norway, a country he’d never before set foot in.
To give you a better understanding of the final painting, let me show you some pictures from the surroundings it was inspired by and created in.
Trondheim, the third biggest city in Norway, as seen from Kuhaugen late 2018.
View of the fjord taken from our studio at the time.
Our studio, moments before another blizzard.
The painting we titled Going Home and it consisted of 2 large wooden panels put together.
Combined, they made a surface of 2,2m x 2,2m.
We used Primary Magenta, Primary Cyan, Primary Yellow, Titanium White, and Payne’s Gray acrylic paints to carefully mix our colours of choice for this piece.
First steps: Sketching using brushes taped to sticks, priming the panels using white, and colour blocking.
Two painting goblins in deep concentration.
After colour blocking the full image we started painting the clouds, again using long sticks to help.
Sealing the final piece.
The final painting as displayed at KiT during a social painting class.
After the festival, Going Home was purchased by the festival’s president, and is now, with a fair amount of effort, hung in his home.