Blog on Gustaf Kylberg

Suspended Reflections

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Suspended Reflections – 2024, oil on canvas, 100 x 75 cm.

Essence

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Essence - 2023, oil on canvas, 75 x 100 cm.

Exploring cubism through drawings

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Somewhere online I saw some ink and aquarelle paintings in a “modern cubism style” this summer. It lead me to explore the concept a bit. These drawings are ink and coloured pencils. Pencils picked from a small palette of colors.

Not sure how to preceed with the concept though.

Against the storm

Sat, 09 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Against the storm - oil on canvas, 200 x 125 cm, 2021. Commission piece.

This is my largest piece to date. With this, I have invested in a full width (210 cm) canvas roll, giving me more freedom of canvas sizes. Previously, I have been restricted by the half-width rolls.

Prints of protein structures

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I have processed and printed a few protein structures, exploring shading using a pen plotter. The process is described further down.

The prints are printed using an AxiDraw pen plotter with Pigma Micron Fineliner pens on 297 x 210 mm (A4), 220 g/m2 acid free paper from Daler Rowney. They are printed in 10 numbered copies each.

The print titles are listed left to right.

Title	Prints still available for purchase
Serotonin receptor	3 of 10
Green fluorescent protein	6 of 10
SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein	6 of 10
Immunoglobulin G monoclonal antibody	6 of 10

The process

The protein structure data from the Protein Data Bank has been processed in PyMOL, exported to Blender 3D for rendering and finally made into a shaded vector based line drawing in Inkscape with the text added. The whole idea was to explore the use of hatching techniques to shade 3D renderings of the proteins. Turning the results into physical prints using an AxiDraw pen plotter soon became too tempting to resist. For the larger proteins I decided to render the surface rather than the schematic structure.

Welcome

Sun, 24 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to my blog where I showcase my art! It is mainly oil paintings. You can explore my art via the tags or by browsing through blog posts. You can read more about me and my art on the About page.

There is also a page called datasets where I host a few texture datasets mainly relevant for researchers in image processing and machine learning.

Early morning

Sun, 17 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Oil on canvas, 170 x 100 cm, 2019. Commission piece.

I started to sketch and collecting ideas early 2017 and painted over one attempt spring of 2018. Finally, during the autumn of 2019 things finally fell into place and I could finish it!

Golden ratio

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Oil on canvas, 2015-2019, 80 x 34 cm.

I painted this piece while exploring the golden ratio a number of years ago. I didn’t intend to keep it but I have had it hanging on the wall next to the easel and it has grown on me so now I have signed it and put it up here on my website.

Around the corner

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Oil on canvas, 2019, 100 x 100 cm. Commission piece.

Painted on request during summer and autumn of 2019.

Contemporary complementary pair

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Oil on canvas, 2016, 80 x 57 cm. Commission piece.

Painted on request as a dissertation present.

Under a tree

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Oil on canvas, 2015, 100 x 100 cm. Commission piece.

Annalkande ankomst

Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Annalkande ankomst - 2006, oil on canvas, 170 x 100 cm. Painted over a period from 2004 to 2006. Private collection.

Fig. 24 - Kiwi

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Fig. 24: Kiwi - 2012, ink and watercolors on paper, 36 x 25 cm. Private collection.

Carmen

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Carmen - 2012, oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm, commission piece.

Stormen

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Stormen - 2011, oil on canvas, 100 x 62 cm. Commission piece.

Napa Valley

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Napa Valley - 2011, oil on canvas, 80 x 72 cm.

Field

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Field - 2006, oil on canvas, 70 x 30 cm. Private collection.

Malou

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Malou - 2005, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm. Private collection.

Trapphus

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Trapphus - 2005, oil on canvas, 80 x 70 cm.

Vågmästare

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000

Vågmästare - 2005, oil on canvas, 40 x 100 cm. Sold.

Två

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Two - 2004, oil on canvas, 46 x 80 cm. Painted on request.

The Blue Note

Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:00:00 +0000

The Blue Note - 2004, oil on canvas, 56 x 100 cm.

Dagstemperatur

Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Dagstemperatur - 2004, oil on canvas, 56 x 80 cm.

Hopp

Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Hopp - Painted during 2003 and 2004, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm.

Ambrosius