I'm back!

Sometimes you just know it's time for a change. Last Monday I painted a tree in my son's room and turned his lamp into a sun. If you want to peek into other people's home you can see Elisabeth's at Design Sponge - and Camilla is finally at home.

summer food

a taste of summer:
shrimps and cold white wine from Alsace
vegtables, cheese and chantarelles with a pinot noir.


I'll soon be back from my vacations!

conversations in water

summer porcelain

still on vacation:
strawberries on grandma's porcelain
seeing a great exhibition in Varberg - Agneta Spångberg's “The Cocktail Dress Collection”

water activities

still vacation here...

- but I could of course not miss out on Aimee being interviewed at artists who blog. She gave her answers in the form of doodles!

hugging the green bunny

still vacation

at the lake

This blog is on vacations. I'll be back in the end of July.

summer in the city

I'm on vacation: summer drawings from my sketchbook.

Time for vacation!

I'm finishing a commission these days - it's a kind of follow up. I'm making a series of watercolour of the enamels I made last year for the tenant owner's association. It is for to be for the reunion hall. There will also be a short text about every animal from the Nordic mythology.

For anyone wondering about the soldiers I was sketching for another commission: the presentation was delayed until August because of changed schedule (renovation delayed)!

I will now be on vacation and will just post occasional summer sketches. End of July I'll be back to normal!

at the beach

Saturday and fairy tales

Yesterday I saw the Elsa Beskow exhibition at the Watercolour museum in Skärhamn. Her children's books contain fairy tale worlds. But the heat and the bright light of the day was very far away from fairy tales. It felt like two different worlds ... or so I thought until I saw the water lily.

surprise!

surprise was the weekword given by Sandra.
Other participants this week are : cecilia, anairam, fruenswerk, aris, aimee and esti .

Net Art

with the Net Art Generator you can create art pieces from images on internet. The program uses google and you enter a title that will be used as a search word. Several images will then be combined/merged. I of course tried it out with my own name as the title - and voilà: the two art pieces in this post were generated. (Most pictures turned out to be from my 2 years of blogging. These were the best ones though... some were really boring )

summer circles

note to self: remember to take time off now and then not to miss out on summer.

Connected to my butterflies: "the great contemporary art bubble" by ben lewis - can be watched at svtplay and you could watch it a BBC iplayer before.

summertime

One painting is finished. (It's approx 65 x 95 cm - click to see bigger) My goal is 10 new paintings by September 1.

back on Monday

I'll be back on Monday

inventory

Tomorrow I'll be moving all my supplies and so on to my new studio. The studio won't be ready for working there until mid August, but storage is possible from now. So I'll make my mother happy - she has let me temporarily store "my studio" in her attic - and do this NOW. (I'm keeping some material for working over summer though)

Today I'm doing some inventory and getting rid of old stuff. Some of the things have been with me since 1993 and my first studio ... I've just kept moving them to the next studio and the next one... without touching it in between. Be gone unnecessary things and lousy old art pieces!

IKEA Family

Esti chose the weekword Family. Other participants this week are : cecilia, anairam, nathalie et cetera, fruenswerk, aris, aimee, jenna, trinsch, and kristi.

disturbing butterflies

I shouldn't leave the window open when I'm painting; all these insects (today it was butterflies) seem to be attracted by the strong colours in my paintings. It can be annoying. One of the girls in a painting got really pissed off after lunch.

The work in progress society on flickr