so we wait

Is the title of this painting of me from 2010. It's one of my favorites. I like the colour green very much but almost all my work where I used it had just not the results that I wanted. I discovered I find it a hard colour the use. In this one it worked for me and I like the faces of the rabits with their very big ears. This painting is also in the exhibition I told you about. On saturday it will open and I'll tell you more about it next week!

Pin it!

I decided to put some of my things on Pinterest. It feels a bit like cleaning up and ordening my stuff, haha. So now you can find all the different things I make also over here. It's still a small selection but it will grow as well. You can also already find some of my older paintings I told you about in my last post. If anyone of you is also on Pinterest I would be happy to see you there too and exchange inspiration and stuff;-)
Wish you all a good start in the new week!

the truth, the lies

May I introduce to you: my painting "for a second that is" of a serie called "the truth, the lies". I started these paintings of animals in 2009 untill 2011 when the paintings inspired by Pippi began. By the end of 2010 I started this blog, so the last ones I painted just made it to the blog. A lot of these paintings I transported last week to a school nearby. They organize exhibitions in one part of the school and they use the art for their art-classes. The children who go there have the age of 12 till 17 or so and I wonder what they think of my work....children are mostly the most honest, they just say it when they think it's nice or the worst thing they ever saw. Saturdy in a week they have an so called "open day" at the school and a small opening for my paintings as well. I'm looking forward to it and I will post some pictures. And if you like it I'll also post some of these older works: they never had to chance to shine at this blog;-) Let me know what you think!
Have a good weekend everyone!

it's never what you think

So I started another big drawing.... I'm thinking about these drawings a lot lately: should I continue or should they go in another direction? How much drawings of little girls inspired by Pippi Longstocking with wapens can I make? Just to talk myself a little bit down (I'm good at that!). The thing is that I get bored with myself really fast and I surprise myself that I make these drawings now for the last two years. So I was thinking about this and I found a sketch that I made at the very beginning of these drawings. At the time I did'nt want to make this one because it's "different". Now I thought that it might be a new direction...but I don't know how it will turn out. Let's wait and see and I'll keep you posted!

sort things by colour

I'm back! I can't wait to see what happend on your blogs, even it was only a week. That's the proof of how you can get addicted to new media...
Now have to do my laundry, even after a small trip it's possible to make a lot of stuff dirty;-)
So everything is almost back to normal and I wish you already a good weekend!

full speed baby

I want to wish you all a very nice weekend and a good start in the next week! I'll be away for the next couple of days, visiting the beautiful city Rotterdam. I can't visit a lot of your blogs that week, so sorry for that and hopefully I'll be able to post the next thing by the end of next week. Thank you for the nice comments on my last two blogpost!

flow into silence

For now the snow and the cold are gone... I don't like that because we get rain instead. I like the world when she is white and everything has to slow down a bit. I would like to live Norway, or Sweden. I have this "thing" for those country's but I'm not sure if I would still like it if there is snow and cold for more as 6 months. This drawing is a bit of a "goodbye-winter" (it can of course still come back!), even if it's not very winterly, but for me they are slowly walking away...very quiet.

me, myself and Mr. Nilsson

I don't know if you remember this painting, I made this one before I started to make the big drawings. This one is from 2011. This painting is my submission for a open call for an exhibition about self-portraits. The intention for this competion is to start a discussion about art. The organisation will take a closer look to the art-works of those people who have a discussion going on about their work. These works will make it to the exhibition... So if you feel like it or have any questions about this work or just want to tell what you see in this work, click here! You will see my entry and below you can spread your mind. Of course you can do this to any other art work you like on this site.

And if you have any energy left, you can also leave a comment here ;-)
I wish you all a good weekend and thank you for your support anyway, just by reading this blog!

snow slips under the door

With this blog-post I just want to let you know that I love snow! And that's all... The pictures above are all taken in our garden and off course is that my rabbit Pollock, he doesn't mind the snow. The only thing he doesn't like about it is that he can't eat any grass, so he tries to dig the snow away;-) The picture below is taken during a walk, near our village you can find a black scottish highlandcattle and this one came very close!

drawing challenge

This weeks host for the drawing challenge is Stefanie and her theme is "crown" (check out her blog, her crown is wonderful!).
I made this drawing of a little girl, all dressed in pink with an also pink crown. Little girls and pink....prinsesses....all you see and hear in the media for girls is pink that that your little girl IS a princess. Now I don't mean this in a bad way, because off course your child is everything to you, but isn't it getting a little bit overboard? There are much more things girls can be and I think it's important that they know that. Please let more girls become strong princesses and not only dressed in pink!
For more crowns, please take a look at Stefanie's blog.

bittersweet

This is a sketch of my mum and me. I drew it when we came back of a holiday in Finland in 2006. We went swimming and had so much fun with a underwatercamera and diving goggles. The sketch isn't very good but everytime I see it it makes me smile, because of the silly stuff we did. Today it's 5 years ago that she past away and I'm glad that I made this weird sketch of us.

disappearing into bubbles

While surching on my computer for a drawing I needed I found some images of my older paintings. This one is from 2004 and perfect to wish you a very nice weekend! ;-)

(thank you for the helpfull comments on my last post, I'm still thinking about it, if I know what to do I'll let you know. Some of you said that I should signe the plates: they are, but on the back).

and now what?

I finished number 3 of a white plate with a red girl. And now I'm thinking about what to do with them. With all the crockery I made in the last few months, continue or not.... You can find all the plates I made on the right site of this blog: labels: crockery. Well, I have to think about it for a while....

fiction is my addiction...

...perhaps I need a prescription.
                                         (Dr. Seuss)

a new beginning...with good news!

In my first post of 2013 I can spread the news that Atelier Spunk's webshop is finally open! My plan was to go online two weeks before christmas, but that was a bit to optimistic... With starting problems and making the pieces and illustrations. There are now 9 rings and 5 necklaces available. If you want to have a look, click here or visit the facebook page.

And there was some other nice news which I got just before christmas: my other blog about food made it to the top 50 list of best FoodBlogs of 2012 by JustEat. I only started 4 months ago so this is nice to hear even if my blog entered the list at number 35.

I hope you all had a good start in this new year and I wish you all the best! Let's see what this year will bring!

give it a whirl!

I want to say goodbye to you for this year. A lot happened, good and bad stuff and I realy shared a lot with you on this blog. And all I want to say is THANK YOU! To all of you who follow this blog, read it once in a while and sometimes even take the time to write a comment. I mean it when I say that it means a lot to me that you spend some of your time here. I wish you all the very best for the next year, I hope it will be a creative one! And hopefully we see each other next year in this blog-universe;-)
So have a good time, were ever you celebrate and dance the night away!

one more or one less...

...Project!

This card made my dad for me for christmas. He let one of my Pippi's spread all the things I'm doing lately, all my different projects like the drawings, the crockery, necklaces and rings, the shop. I'm always worried if I don't do to much and if it all makes sence, because it's not one style and so on and on and on.... But now on this card it somehow does make sence and it just shows that I'm trying and working on it.  And maybe the projects aren't that different as I thought....

almost....

So I did not find that small door to escape which I drew in my last post. It has been busy, the gifst are wrapped, the cooking is almost done so I hope today I can draw a bit more and relax.
This is a picture I took of a nativity scene which is build every year across our street at a farm. There is a day-care at this farm for mental disabled kids and they made this figures. I really like them, especially the animals make me smile.

What I want to say to you all: I hope you have a very nice christmas together with people you love, some nice food and well...some presents! Wish you some wonderfull days!

fully underground

I know it's a cliche, but right now, during all this early-christmas-gifts-dinner-stress I want to disappear. Maybe I'll find a small door in a corner. You see: I have my handbag with me;-)

soup for christmas!

Between all the new projects I started I maneged to get the last 5 soup plates ready. I now have 6 dinner plates and 6 soup plates ready of the same crockery. Maybe I surprice my guests during christmas dinner with these plates... I wish you all good week and thanks to the ones who left a comment to the last post!