Sargent copy

Did a quick study of one of Sargent's paintings, about 2 hours in PS.

I have been working on a children's book with my sister for a couple of months. We are in the process of wrapping up the production, and hopefully we will be able to print some books soon. Anyway, this version of this illustration didn't make it into the book, had to make it a sunrise scene instead. But I thought it turned out pretty good!

Also I got a new website up for my work, check it out! www.martinmausethhvattum.com

Big Island, Hawaii

Just spent 10 wonderful days in the sun on Hawaii with Liz. So great to get out of the city and back into nature, the place really reaffirmed in my mind that a life lived outside in nature is so rewarding. You can just get stuck in the everyday big city grind, it is even obvious to me to "go out and play", I just don't. Not like I am becoming a mountain man anytime soon, but definitely stepping up my plein-air painting the next couple of months.

To be honest we spend most of our time lounging on the beach and falling off surf boards but we managed to do a few paintings. This one is the only one I ended up pleased with, and it was painted on a small beach-park near Hilo, Big Island. The owner of a hostel we stayed at was gracious enough to take us snorkeling in the area, he took us to this spot to paint and it was an amazing place. Hardly anyone around except for some locals, and we even saw a couple of huge sea-turtles basking in the sun.

The Flying Dutchman / Narrative Painting final

Fashion history

Some homework for my fashion history class :)

"A Very Sensetive Ogre"

Narrative painting hw

Doing some oils again, so much fun!

I went to the halloween costume carnival here at school last week, and it was really great as always. Did a bunch of figure drawings as usual. My gf showed me some awesome pictures Dax Santi from the illustration dept took so I did a couple of small paintings from two of them. The last one is Liz, although with those teeth in, she looks completely different.

Gouache landscape sketch

Narrative painting HW

Don Quixote & Captain Canada!

Lately I have been doing some pen and ink, comic book kinda stuff. Tried out 24 hour comics the other day with Liz, and although we only lasted for about 12 hours. We did come up with some fun characters for our story along with a few pages of story. In addition, I did this ink and watercolour illustration of Don Quixote and his trusted squire heading out on an adventure!

Malcolm in the Middle

Been watching this TV show lately. At first it seems like your average family TV sitcom until you realize how crazy it is. Crazy and brilliant satire! Wanted to test out painter, and see if i liked it. So I did these studies of the characters from the show. Painter is so fun, much more intuitive then Photoshop is, although perhaps not as fast and accurate. I'm a bit unsure what program I'll be using in the future, at least my eyes where opened to an alternative approach!

Sketchbook summer 11

Sketches from museums, magazines, festivals, trains, canals, ditches, parks and the vast empty space between my ears.

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Watercolour landscapes Summer 11

I've been traveling around to my girlfriends hometown, a bit of Europe and home in Norway this summer. Brought along a compact easel and my watercolour kit and did a bunch of studies on the road. Not much to say about these, other than that they were a lot of fun and I feel the practicing is coming a long. Really great to get challenged by the always changing scenery.

1-2 hrs each
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Live Drawing

A little collection of some of the figure drawing I found time for this spring. Some are straight Gouache, the black and white just Charcoal and/or Conte. The drawings are all the way from 1 minute, up to a couple of 20s.














I am spending the summer backpacking around with watercolours and a sketchpad, so I hope to come back strong in a few months with some landscapes and stuff. Really excited to be going to the East-coast, then through a bit of Europe before touching base back in Norway for a month or so :D