Norway Little Town Mo i Rana Watercolor Painting
Here is the painting of a small cozy town Mo i Rana in Norway. It is a part of my series Travel Around The World.
The main square is pictured in the best sunny day of a short warm Norway Summer. I loved painting these cute café with a red bicycle parked nearby. A lovely gazebo invites the viewers to rest and enjoy a nice day. The square is empty, but as soon as you step into it in your imagination, you can hear the birds in the tree, amazing smell of the coffee and pastries, and kids voices from a playground.
A little bit of history:
Mo i Rana is a little town in Nordland county, Norway. Local people just called this town Mo, and there are only around twenty thousand people in this cute town. Yet in Nordland county it is a largest town of whole Helgeland region. The main ways of peoples’ lives there is mining, building boats, fishing and hunting. The ways of life are simple and calm. The town started back in 1730 as a small village when local church organized famous in that area market and trade center. Merchants that came from Meyer traded flour, meats, fish, and tobacco. Because this area is abundant with iron ores, Mo i Rana became an important spot for industry at the beginning of 20th century. And, in 1955, the first steel was produced to Norway and other countries. And almost in the turn of a few years the little village Mo i Rana changed into industrial city, which attracted a lot of people seeking new lives and new jobs. From the end of the Second World War until the early 1990s, Mo i Rana was dependent upon metal industry. But following the decline of heavy industry, new service industries have now grown in the town.
I loved one day painting Norway's Fjord, the grandiose of the mountains and cool lake in contrast with small cozy colorful town of Mo i Rana brings understanding of simple lives and appreciation to the nature of a northern country:
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