Inhaltsangabe
Hard Cover
High quality paper
64 Pages
31 Color pages
17 Exciting projects
If you have been searching for a good instruction book that will introduce you to and teach you the authentic Norwegian Rosemaling and folklore in a easy to understand manner, still being able to show you every important detail in how to master this wonderful art form, search no more….! This book has simple painting techniques for the beginners and challenging projects for the advanced painters. The projects are painted with the author’s unusual perfection. Her exceptional ability of composition and color choice are clearly demonstrated in every project as well as in each perfect stroke. The large exquisite color pictures are an unforgettable experience in themselves.
Norwegian Trolls & Rosemaling Vol.1 is the only new book available showing in clearly and understandable step-by-step how to create enchanted cute Troll-creatures on canvas and wood, combined with the beautiful and traditional art form of Norwegian Rosemaling and rich landscapes. Detailed color illustrations show you how to follow the author’s wonderful technique. Rosemaling and Trolls have been an important part of Norwegian culture and literature for centuries. In this book Rosemaling is taught with a new trend setting method showing how you can recreate these traditions in painting. These teaching techniques are developed by the author’s 26 years of teaching Rosemaling and other mediums both in Norway and the US. This includes 9 years at the Norwegian Folk University and 8 years in her own studio in Norway. Joan Dahl is the only known American artist that for 17 years taught the Norwegian their own folk art!
Trolls are the names on the supernatural large creatures that live in the Norwegian woods and mountains. They are closely related to “jøtnene” which are described in old Norwegian folklore. The stories about Trolls are strongly flavored by fantasy. They are also in modern times part of the Norwegian folk poetry and fairy tales, but hardly believed in as anything else than fantasy beings. Joan has taken the “liberty” of making her Trolls a lot less scary than usually portrayed. Many people even claim that her Trolls are kind of cute!
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Joan Dahl was introduced to Rosemaling and was completely hooked on this beautiful art form during several visits to Norway in the early seventies. Norway is her husband for over thirty years, homeland. She could never find an instruction book written in English in Norwegian stores. So it was in the good US of A she found her first Rosemaling book in English. At this time, she and her husband Thor, owned several stores in a Scandinavian Village called Solvang in California.
Joan started to do some Rosemaling decorations in their stores. Soon people interested in this Norwegian art form started to come in to admire her work. One thing led to another, and the Dahls started a large wholesale and retail art business where Joan was the in house Rosemaling teacher. They also had many of the world’s leading artists conducting Seminars for them. When Priscilla Hauser visited, they had up to 100 students in each class.
In 1984 Joan and Thor moved to Norway. Thor went back to his home country to build out a larger development, while Joan started to teach English at the Norwegian Folk University. Though she wanted to teach Rosemaling, the administration informed her that Rosemaling was a “dead” art form in their area. They had been unable to gather enough students to complete courses for a long time. However, Joan convinced the University to try a class based on her enthusiasm and previous success with Rosemaling Seminars in Solvang, California. The first class proved to be very successful and when the University asked how the class was doing, Joan told them that every student already had signed up for the next course. She continued to teach for nine years at the University. Her last 8 years in Norway, she taught from her own Studio. While in Norway, Joan published 3 Rosemaling books and several art articles in many larger art publications.All her readers and students may call her on a special free support phone line if they have any Rosemaling painting problems. Her own Rosemaling is on permanent display in Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, the US center for Norwegian culture. Her work is shown side by side with the other priceless art and heirlooms from the days when the earliest Scandinavian immigrants arrived to the New World and up to today. The author’s newest method of sharing her vast Rosemaling knowledge with the entire world, is through offering instructions on Internet.
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