Blog – Monica Askjer

September 2017 – Mural

A while ago I asked two companies «Olav Askjer Kran & Transport» and «Teb Trans» to do a mural in their office. What they then asked for to have in the mural was: trucks, crane trucks in different settings (what they can do), nature and a naturalistic painted mural. After around 70 hours, the mural is finally done. I have never done a mural in this scale by myself before. It was quite a challenge, but a lot of fun!

December 2016 – Exhibition

December 21st we had an exhibition in YWAM Base in Perth, Australia. I showed a various of projects I had done for the last three months, and one of the proproject the focus was on the design process; from the start to the finish project. The inspiration for the project was a insect, and for me it was a damselfly. This insect is small and fast, and live near the water.

May 2016 – Exhibition

In April this year, I started at a school i Perth, Australia. In one of the courses at the school we learned about basic art and how to mix and use different mediums as acrylic, charcoal and chalk. A semester lasts approximately six months and is divided into two different parts: lecture and outreach, each around three months. In lecture phase we had an exhibition to sell and raise money to go on outreach. The exhibition was May 29 where I will showed some of my drawings and paintings.

May 2015 – Winter House

A few years ago, I started to paint my first winter landscape. I had for a longe time wanted to paint a picture about winter and snow. When I started the painting 1 1/2 year ago, the idea was to create a feeling of a beautiful cold winter night, the love of a family and the fellowship in a home. I wanted to create a scenery with a mix of memories and imagination. Snow has always fascinated me, and I have many good memories from I was a child and played outside in the snow. We created a lot of different sculptures as snowman and snow lanterns, we had snowball fights, sledding and a lots of fun.

Left: Sketch nr. 1: After 3 hours

Right: Picture nr. 2: After 9 houers

Left: Picture nr. 3

. Right: Bilde nr. 4: After 25 hours

December 2014 – Flor & Fjære

Some of my family members had been on a trip to a place in Norway called «Flor & Fjære». After the visit they asked me to paint a painting from the scenery there. «Flor & Fjære» is a park located on an island outside of Bergen, with possibility to experience an incredible nature scenery combined of different plants, flowers, rivers and trees.

Left: sketch nr. 1

Right: picture nr. 2

Left: picture nr. 3

Right: picture nr. 4

November 2014 – Gran Canaria

This painting was painted as a request from a family member. The family member had been on vacation on Gran Canaria, and wanted a painting as a memory on her wall. The painting could be created as I wanted, and I painted it as realistic as a could. This was to make a feeling of being there. It was also because I knew that the family member love realistic paintings; as realistic as possible. In the first sketch I started with the basic colours and shapes of the painting. After that I continued to add layers upon layers of paint. Below are some pictures of the painting through the painting process.

Left: sketch and draft nr. 1