photos from my exhibition

So many people showed up at the opening - Thanks!
Last day of my exhibition TO DO [laugh] was yesterday. Today I took some photos before packing it. 

new moo business cards

For years now I've made a new set of moo business cards for every new exhibition. I've been printing some of the art pieces in the exhibition on one side of the cards (and my contact info on the other, of course) - like a selected mini version of the exhibit ... as you can print many different motives in the same batch with moo. Another reason is that the quality of the moo business cards is great. (no, I'm not being sponsored by them!). I'm a bit extra sensitive to the printing quality as I work a lot in my art with pinkish and yellow tones that can get really "wrong" in print.

Anyhow; this time it turned out to be even better - they've just started offering square business cards! All my screen prints for my up-coming exhibition To Do [Laugh] are squarish so I had thought this would be rather tricky - but now it was just perfect instead. In addition screen prints are very suitable for reproduction ... so my new little business cards look just like mini-versions of my prints! I'm very happy about this; I can easily try different combinations for hanging the exhibition. Let's just hope now that my artist colleagues won't pinch them all at the opening ...

... and some close-ups

This is how some of the "post-it" screen prints turned out. To clarify; the yellow/pink post-it notes are screen printed as well ... In this post from October you can see what it looked like when I was playing around with the post-it notes (that time I had just screen printed laughing faces on post-it notes and was moving them around).

I know it sounds a bit complicated ... and yes, it has been a bit complex.

test-mounting

I managed to get the same print repeated in a diagonal, but I didn't notice until I saw the wall on this photo. The feeling is so very different when you stand there - in reality - next to all those prints. You notice other things.

screen printing

So now I've started screen printing the series of post-it laughters. It has been - and still is - a long process arriving at those final 10 images. All together 3 months full time work I would say… at least.

printing post-its

After two days of test printing post-it colours and trying different approaches on layering and shadows - I finally felt I knew how I wanted it to be. This week I will first print one of the images in the series - to make sure I got the right size of paper etc, before I go for the other ones. All in all I will print at least 10 images with 4-5 layers, so I've better think before-  not after.

still laughing

It's been almost nine months and she is still there. I'm amazed that the thin rice paper and wheat paste glue haven't either dissolved or let go.

sticky notes - to remember

more post-its

flowers and hares

another test print from last week. The hares are from the Children's Book I made as part of the commission with the portal.

my experiments with textile printing

screen printing exchange

Sanna taking a look at her frame

Sanna's print on the plastic sheet for fitting the print

my fabric prints in the textile departement at KKV

This last week I've spent some great days at KKV having an exchange with Sanna Dahlman (she's made some really great designs for IKEA - you probably have some of them at home); I've been learning about textile print (my blind spot when it comes to screen printing) and I'm teaching her screen printing on paper. We have two more days to go next week when I'll mostly assist her when printing on paper.

I've had so much fun these days - thanks Sanna!

she can take some shit

very much spring

I've been a bit absent from the blog as spring came with an incredible intensity and distracted me - here are some glimpses from how spring entered my working days.

my son spent a whole day with me trying out some land art ideas for some workshops with preschool children - and enjoyed all the spring flowers.

I exposed a wood anemone directly on the screen printing frame and printed it in 3 colours in one go - as a demonstration print for my students at a weekend course in screen printing

Preschool children full of spring energy at my second workshop in the forest (last week).

a change of heart

I decided a sequence was the way to go for this print instead. It was quite complicated to get it all right as I was super tired today - been teaching screen printing all weekend and then spent all day yesterday applying for a residency. But with careful planning, notes to help me remember in what order to print what - and a proper lunch - I managed to solve it anyway! 

art for the people

drowning it; Attempt II

what to do with all those screen prints?

Drown it 
Attempt II (another screen print)

more screen printing

I continued screen printing all week - trying out some different options. I want to do something new, something different than before.

For two months now I've felt kind of lost. I've been trying to get my motivation and passion back. Could it be the time of the year? Or that I spend almost no time working on my own art last autumn and summer (just working on commissioned art) - and that I just have a hard time getting started again? 

Anyway; last week was fun screen printing!

and some screen printing ...

from today and the other week

what to do with all those screen prints III

make discrete street art