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WELCOME!

Originally from Sweden, I'm an artist living in Paris, where I also teach watercolor painting. I use my blog for regular updates about my art process and news, and my website with my Art shop for commercial issues.

Sharing my creative process through the years have given me opportunities to work professionally with my art. I paint and draw "portraits" of what visually capture my interest and with no exception there is light, shadows and water involved. Contemplation appeared early in my life, and drawing followed naturally to leave a trace of my impressions.

Please feel free to contact me for any question, and if you wish to purchase or use any available piece of work go to my website: helenstrom.com

Onekingslane.com sell prints of my paintings and have launched my wallpaper designs early 2021!

I wish you a pleasant visit. Thank you!

(Clic on images here below to be linked.)

INSPIRING MASTERS

Horst Janssen

Andrew Wyeth

Bonnard

Joaquin Sorolla

Sargent

Rembrant

Klimt

Schiele

Lucian Freud

Euan Uglow

Avigdor Arikha

Joseph Van Ruyssefelt

Edward Hopper

Van Gogh

Monet

Helene Schjerfbeck

Anders Zorn

Eugène Jansson

Picasso

David Hockney

Antonio Lopez Garcia

Michaël Borremans

Truphémus

Diarmud Kelley

Wendy Artin

Sam Safran

Lars Lerin

Severo Almansa

Pedro Cano

Juan Carlos Cardesin

Carlos San Millan

Eduardo Alvarado

Mònica Subidé

Paco Lafarge

Miguel Coronado

Alberto Romero Gil

Jean Marie Drouet,

James Jean

Wil Freeborn

Kurt Jackson

Irene Cuadrado

Marta Lafuente

Laura Ríos

Israel Herchberg

Signal Tsabari

Susan Jane and

Chelsea James

among others…

My thoughts about drawing coincides with these statements:

"Drawing from observation is immediate. It requires the feeling: intense sensation, vision, velocity and instant execution. It does not admit any subsequent amendments that we would be noticed inevitably...

When a head, an apple, a tree or a piece of bread, beat and subjugate, the hand will follow and communicate through the line or spot, the visual emotion. It is always the revelation of a truth that the subtle viewer will discern without hesitation."

Avigdor ARIKHA

"Always have a book in hand and note in four strokes the objects that strike you, if you do not have time to fully state it. But if you have the opportunity to make a more accurate sketch, study the model with love, consider it and express it under all its forms, so as it stays in your head, embed it there as your property."

INGRES - "Ecrits sur l'Art"

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How to simplify when painting an apple...

Pear in my sketchbook...

White curtain...

Idea for my students...

"Mint II"...

Red apples...

NEW prints for sale...

Vanuatu...

Tulip sketches...

"Silver pot with spoon"...

"Mint in round vase I"....

"Still life with silver pot I"...

"Signs of spring II"...

"Signs of spring I" ...

Quick studies with students...

Light study of a carnation flower...

Lemon with leaves in graphite...

Anemones in my sketchbook...

Stage / Workshop...

Rose study...