Rose maling norway

Here are a few sketches I did last spring in class. These two are basically the same design, but with different colors. And then the mangletre that I painted in the class I took last week. I really had no idea that I was painting in the same colors as the sketch I had done in class 3 months ago. I have a place to hang this at home next to the cupboard where I keep my iron. Do you know what a mangletre is? It's Norwegian.

The last time I was home, my grandmother had set aside some artwork, fabric and other random things that she thought I might enjoy. One of these things was Rosemåling artwork that she had learned t…

People in the Petersburg area can hone their rosemaling skills or try out the technique for the first time this week with an award-winning painter and teacher visiting from Wisconsin. Rosemaling is a traditional style of Norwegian decorative painting used on anything wooden, from plates to buildings. Nancy Schmidt is teaching classes Tuesday through Saturday upstairs at the Sons of Norway Hall. She’s been teaching rosemaling for 40 years and this is her third visit to Petersburg.