Kerstin (Nyström) Rassner

My paintings of Tulips

My mother had bought a vase of stoneware from Höganäs AB when she was employed at P Jansson AB in Norrköping. After Christmas we often had one lonely tulip in that vase. For the Maria-day Feb. 28th my wish always was "a yellow dubble tulip". I don´t know how many paintings with that vase I have done in school.
I love tulips because they change all the time, and they are beautiful even when they have died.

Some hundred years ago a tulip onion was extremely expensive in Western Europe.

In our church here in Perstorp some expressive tulips are painted on the alterpiece.

 

coming later coming later
My mothers vase

In my mind
From my sketchbook 1959, when I was 14.

Colour pencils on paper 15cm x 22cm

In my mind
From my sketchbook 1961.

Crayons on paper 10cm x 12cm

Tulips in my mind

Caran d´Ache oilcrayons on paper.
A gift for my father.

 

 

Tulips in my window

This is one of the few pictures I made just for my own pleasure during my studies in Gothenburg. Drawing with pencil on paper, 1967.

 

Tulips in my mind
Detail from my painting with a girl in a town window.

Tulips in my mind
Tulips and grape hyacinths.

Painted on silk in 1996
20cm x 20cm

 

 
Computer made tulips 1998

A tulip´s life cycle

Animated with the mouse on my computer in 1999

 A cross-stitch embroidery for my mother´s birthday in 1977. After a bought pattern.

 

My own oilpaintings with tulips till 2001

Yellow toy and tulips
My sons music toy and tulips in a vase from Tilchmann´s in Gothenburg.

Oilpainting on canvas in 1986, 27cm x 35cm.

Thinking of somebody
Tulips 2001

Oilpainting with knife
27cm x 35cm.
Feb. 7th 2001

Lions tulips in 2001
Day 1

Oilpainting with knife
27cm x 35cm
Apr. 1st 2001

Lions tulips in 2001
Day 2

Oilpainting with knife
27cm x 35cm.
Apr. 2nd 2001

My own oilpaintings with tulips 2001-2002

I was painting at the Housing Exhibition in Perstorp April 2001.


Photo: Sara Rassner

Tulips at the exhibition April 2001
Day 1

Oilpainting with knife in April 21st, 27cm x 35cm

Tulips at the exhibition 2001
Day 2

Oilpainting with knife in April 21st 35cm x 27cm

My first tulips in 2002

Oilpainting with brush
Jan. 26-27th 2002
27cm x 35cm

 

Newly bought pink tulips
on a doll´s chair.
Painted when I was waiting for my husband to come home.

Oilpainting with brush
Jan. 28th 2002
27cm x 35cm

Some days later and a little shortened

Oilpainting with brush
Feb. 1st-4th 2002
41cm x 33cm.
Down here you can see the steps taken to make this painting.

 

My favorite tulip when I was young - dubble yellow.

Oilpainting with brush
Feb. 11th 2002, using some pauses of the Olympic Games on TV.
27cm x 35cm

In Sweden we call these tulips "papegojtulpaner" = parrot tulips

Oilpainting with knife
April 2nd 2002.
38cm x 46cm
No sketch at the linen canvas.

Painting tulips

Sketch with wax oil crayons.

I alter to paint with brush or knife but never both in the same painting. Actually I only use one brush with a certain number for a specific painting.
Sometimes I first make a drawing with crayons on the canvas and sometimes I just start to paint somewhere in the motif.

 The sketch edited with terpentune

The glass, the croquet cloth and the shadows in the leaves painted with oilcolours.


I had to give the tulips a heavy ground to balance the flowers. I didn´t want them to fly around as during a space flight.

The background is finshed and the tulip boquet is going to be painted.


You can see the result in one of the the rows above.
I couldn´t get the perfect pink colour with the oilcolours I used as I could with the crayons.
The minerals used for different oilcolours make them behave in different ways. I think that this is the charm with traditional oilcolours.

Link to "A tale of tulips" http://hfc-flowerbulbs.nl/tale1.htm

A good book about tulips with a lot of pictures: "The Tulip" by Anna Pavord, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1999
In Swedish: "Tulpanen", Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm, 2000, ISBN 91-46-17537-7

My own oilpaintings with tulips 2003

A bouquet of different coloured tulips is always inspiring

My Oilpainting with knife
Feb. 13th 2003
38cm x 46cm

 

Newly bought red tulips

My Oilpainting with knife
Feb. 20th 2003
40cm x 50cm.

 

Lilac tulips

My Oilpainting with knife
March 6th 2003
50cm x 40cm

The background finished later and changed until April 8th.

Orange parrot tulips

My oilpainting with knife March 13th 2003 46cm x 38cm

Background white.

 

 

Orange parrot tulips

An expression of the just painted boquet. Just from my mind, no sketch to start with.

My oilpainting with knife March 13th and changed background in April 8th 2003 22cm x 27cm

 

Lilac tulips

My Oilpainting with knife
March 15th 2003
40cm x 30cm

 

Red parrot tulips

My Oilpainting with knife
March 17th 2003
46cm x 38cm

Yellow double tulips

My oilpainting with knife March 27th 2003 38cm x 46cm

 

Yellow tulips

My oilpainting with knife April 3rd 2003 38cm x 46cm

Background painted very light lilac a week later

 

Yellow tulips

Some of the tulips in my boquet.

My oilpainting with knife April 4th 2003 21cm x 27cm

 

Yellow tulips some days later

My oilpainting with knife April 6th 2003 38cm x 46cm

Mixed colours

My oilpainting with knife April 13th-14th 2003 46cm x 38cm

 

 

Link to "A tale of tulips" http://hfc-flowerbulbs.nl/tale1.htm

 

A good book about tulips with a lot of pictures:
"The Tulip" by Anna Pavord, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1999
In Swedish: "Tulpanen", Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm, 2000, ISBN 91-46-17537-7

  
   

 

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