Hello!

I took some time off yesterday to put together snippets of my work in a new portfolio that will be sent out.

 

Coming weeks will be quite booked with freelance but more updates will come next month, not sure which project though as I’m drifting between putting together existing work and creating new, a little depending on my mood that day. I enjoy variety.

The coloringbook is completed but I decided to reach out to publishers before self-publishing it, just to see if anyone would be interested. I realize my style is quite different and although that is the reason why it will sell it’s also a reason why not everyone will throw themselves at the opportunity to publish it.

 

 

So either I find “the right publisher” or I go solo, but no matter the outcome I’ll keep you updated once I know more!

 

xoxo

Photoshop Tutorial-International Artist Feature: Sweden

I hope you will like the interview, the question was how Sweden has made an impact on my work. When thinking about it, I came to my conclusion that our childhood and the environment we grow up in greatly impact us, as in reference points, places where we’ve come to be inspired or situations that frightened us. It all matters, to some degree, even if we find inspiration from elsewhere in the world later in life. At least that’s the case for me.

 

XOXO

I feel like a force of nature. There is so much longing to get out, and it seems lady Fortuna is smiling at me. We’ve had several sickdays this winter, you can really tell from my lack of updates. On the positive note it seems the brain is never asleep. I’m currently working on a manuscript of a book and also a coloringbook. It seems a lot of people would appreciate it, I figured I’d give it a go. If the kids can get a break and not get sick I should be able to show you some new work shortly, but these are things I have very little control over. Please allow me to show you whatever scraps I’ve created during these sneezing and feverish times. Love, from the artist with Tonsillitis, but luckily on antibiotics so it should be fine soon haha

 

 

What can I say? I love my ink. This one is not a new piece but I haven’t really shown it off, I also love the sumi-e paper I was working on because it’s very playful (read: difficult to control) and it’s excellent playing up the textures of the ink mixed with the water. I hope this princess will guide you through November and keep you safe, inspire to dream yet not to dwell on unfulfilled dreams. See you in December.

October was a very busy month for me, so is November. In December I’ll be able to post more art, but for now – here is my Halloween-art that I managed to create between cold mugs of coffee, freelance and children with runny noses – the illustration is quite big and drawn with ink using a steel nib pen and color in Photoshop using a wacom intuos pro tablet.

I really miss drawing, I miss creating my own characters and letting my mind wander off to mysterious places, but all things has it’s own time and the benefit of being a 30+ woman is realizing there is no hurry, there is no hidden deadline in your own projects. If you wait, things fall into place. I guess it all differs, but because I’m usually working at a manic speed and don’t have to worry about not finding inspiration and because I don’t have doubts in my work-ethics I really have to learn to balance the other way around – don’t stress, some things are too damn great to be limited by the small breadcrumbs of time thrown in my Now – because I know I have more time Later, Later is the way to go.