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Lene Saethre
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Norwegian artist, illustrator and designer.
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Happy Halloween!
Haven’t been able to post for a little while. So, I decided to throw something together for Halloween just for fun! Hope you all are enjoying autumn and spoopy vibes.

#drawing #painting #art #halloween #ghost #jackolantern #grave #night #spoopy #spooky #haunting #illustration
Drawing of a ghost sitting on a gravestone holding a jack’o lantern at night. Small ghostly lights are floating around her.
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Little Human Girl

Just a technique experiment

#drawing #painting #art #illustration #girl #human #experiment #technique #practice #portrait
An illustrated profile portrait of a young girl with brown hair. Golden butterflies of light flitter about her. A line of golden light can be seen in the background.
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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“Seen”
To be seen,
like a lynx rolling in the heath.
There is a joy to be found in being seen like that.
In the moment.
Unjudged.
Untethered from the demands of society.
To just,
be.

#painting #drawing #lynx #mixmedia #nature #eyes #art #fineart #illustration #animal #portrait
Painting of a golden eyed lynx rolling in the heath.
September 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Flutter - Life is but the brief flutter of wings within the vastness that is time.

#painting #drawing #mixmedia #art #illustration #moth #digital #gouache #golden #eyes #poem #time
A mix media painting of a white moth, with golden eyes, in motion
September 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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“Hunting” We hunt. Our desires silent, like the wings of an owl in flight. Silent, up until the very moment, claws outstretched, we act.

#painting #drawing #owl #nature #mixmedia #art #illustration #animal #stylized #fineart #night #action #hunting
Mix-media painting of an owl swooping in for the kill.
August 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Doodling a bunch of strange houses with pen. Looking at images from the u.k, India, and Norway, combining random elements (:

#doodles #drawing #traditional #house #illustration #art #imagination #creative
Pen doodles of various imaginative houses. Borrow elements from different building cultures.
August 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Mountains, as part of a messy painting process.

#wip #painting #drawing #art #illustration #process #mountains
Excerpt of a painting in progress featuring mountains.
August 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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“Moments”
Immutable experiences malleable by time. They make us who we are.

#fox #painting #art #illustration #drawing #mixmedia #golden #eyes #digital #gouache #nature #moments
A painting of a fox playing in the forest, trying to bite its own tail. It’s eyes a bright golden yellow.
August 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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“Trapped”
Caught. Suffocating in a web of societies making. Trapped. No way out.

#painting #drawing #mix-media #art #illustration #digital #gouache #spider #prey #nature #eyes
A black and white painting of a spider amongst brush and heath, having jut caught a fly and spun it into a cocoon. Its eyes are the only thing with colour, they are yellow.
July 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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“Guardian”
We are not all the same. Yet, when we feel small, we seek out those close to us. Companionship being the guardian that staves off the world.

#drawing #painting #mixmedia #art #illustration #fox #mouse #rodent #fineart #nature #narrative
Painting of a little rodent sitting on the remains of a cut down tree. A fox looms in the background.
July 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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A bit of doodling, a bit of planning, and, a bit of practice while at work ✌️

#doodle #drawing #pencil #painting #watercolour #art #illustration
Picture of two sketchbooks.the upper one with water colour doodles, and the lower I'd filled with pencil thumbnails and doodles of people
July 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Encounters: Not every encounter is made equal. They are not always welcome. Yet it is when we are down, when we need them the most, that they are the hardest to face.

#art #painting #drawing #animal #portrait #illustration #nature #ermine #stoat
A painting of two ermine facing off in the brush.
July 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Just a rough practice doodle. Because sometimes you just do not really feel like doing much other than to stare out at the sky.

#doodle #drawing #cat #painting #art #illustration #practice #sketch #rough
A rough illustration of a cat sitting in a corner.
June 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Little Troll Girl

Further experimenting using the same reference as earlier.

#drawing #painting #art #illustration #girl #troll #mountain #experiment #practice #portrait
Illustrated portrait of a troll girl with blue skin and red hair. Moss grows on her. She is set against a backdrop of mountains and a starlit sky.
June 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Little Demon Girl

Experimenting some more. Using the same base reference as in my previous post, though, with modifications.

#drawing #painting #experiment #art #illustration #portrait #demon #girl #dark #fantasy
Illustrated portrait of a dark blue skinned demon girl with an inner fire shining through her eyes, ears, nose and mouth. Her hair flows off her like smoke.
June 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Little Elf Girl

I could write a backstory for this piece. Make it more than the sum of its parts. But fact is, at times you just want to play around with technique and style, and that is what this is.

#drawing #painting #elf #girl #art #illustration #portrait #practice #fantasy
A illustrated portrait of a an elven girl with auburn hair.
May 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Alone

A quick technique exploration piece (:

#drawing #painting #art #illustration #landscape #morning #cabin #forest #mountain
A painting of a cabin in the early morning surrounded by mist.
May 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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At times I am unsure what I am doing. Whether or not my effort will ever surmount to anythingy… Then I remember that there is something I genuinely want to become good at; And I find myself back at my desk.

#doodle #art #drawing #painting #thoughts #landscape #WIP
a half painted mountain landscape
May 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I have to admit that ever since generative AI got introduced, posting to social media feels a bit like screaming into a void. It could also be that I’ve just lost what little interest I had for social media :b

#drawing #art #illustration #fantasy #wow #elf #portrait #painting #biker
A painted portrait of a female void elf from world of warcraft sporting a leather jacket, holding a biker helmet under one arm and looking into the distance.
May 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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A character portrait I made of a game character not long ago. Night elf druid from wow.

#Drawing #wow #painting #character #portrait #nightelf #art #illustration #fantasy #elf #woman
Illustrated character portrait of a long eared elven woman reading a book at a desk. Her eyes glow and she has white hair and a white dress.
May 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Sometimes you just need to doodle for sanity's sake. This as Azra.

#drawing #painting #illustration #portrait #woman #elf #darkelf #fantasy #art #oc #character #drow
Illustrated portrait of a scarred dark elf woman with silvery white hair. It is nighttime and she is placed against the starlit night sky.
April 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Few, if any, ever saw the face of the performers as they tumbled about, both on, and off, stage. Tthe masks helped humanize them in the eyes of others. Where they once had been hunted for their looks they now could walk openly.

#art #illustration #drawing #portrait #girl #horn #painting #digital
Illustration of a girl with four luminous eyes, and a horn with golden cracks, grins as she looks at us, and towards something else at the same time. She sits in a dark room with a crooked window behind her. She has on soft robes with crude flowers printed on it as stark light hits one side of her face, while blue shadows bathe the other.
April 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Some dreams come. Some dreams go. Some dreams stay. Faded by time and reality. But no less real. Like an old photograph. Glimpse of a time lost.

#drawing #painting #ink #art #illustration #traditional #tree #dreams
An ink painting of a tree, half faded towards the top.
April 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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In an era of ai art, it is hard to tell what is, and what is not, made by actual people. So here is a timelapse showing the various rendering steps of a drawing I finished recently. I really could not get the base sketch right, so I corrected it as I went.

#art #illustration #portrait #drawing
April 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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No matter how long; She would wait.
They had promised her they would return.
As they had her heart, they had her trust.
So, she waited.
Looking for them on the horizon.

#drawing #portrait #lovers #illustration #art #woman #elf #waiting
Portrait of a young elven woman with blonde hair waiting for someone. A cloak covering one shoulder as she stares into the distance. A mountainscape can be seen in the background.
March 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM