Niels Henriksen Artworks

The big problem with the web and most cameras we have is that it’s impossible to show truly saturated and rich colors. The actual colors in this painting jump out with a richness that even with my advanced Photoshop skills I just can’t render in a web format. With some of the new printers I [...]

This is from an image I took in the Botanical gardens in San Miguel de Allende. In this study I wanted to play around with a larger portion of entire plant not just a close up. This is one photo where I was unable to bring out the rich colors of the plant in a [...]

With the last set being painted on a red and blue background I thought for this set to use those same colours , well at least as a theme, and then paint with the appropriate tones of these. The blue version turned out to appear water-like and as a night scene. I realized that part [...]

It felt good, with the first 2 paintings, to be very loose and abstract and not really thinking about anything when paint is applied. Just letting the colours influence me. Since 2 paintings are done on the same sheet and with one influencing the other, each pair is like a set. For this 2nd version [...]

A Mini Painting Challenge Sometimes I need to free myself up a bit as I have a tendency to be too critical and forget how to play. Pure playing around is a sure fire method to get rid of some of those voices that sit on our shoulders, providing guidance and direction as to what [...]

16” x 20” Oil on Canvas One of my first larger painting that I completed. It was painted in my studio with the aid of a photograph. I is just south of Nykobing Mors in Denmark. This spit of land was being lit by sunlight streaming through the clouds and striking the marsh grasses which [...]