Tips för att torka sockerblommor

När jag började dekorera tårtor köpte jag massa små skålar speciellt för att torka sockerblommor så de får form. Korkat egentligen, när det - i återvinningens namn och allt - går smidigare med lite plastfolie i en äggkartong.... På så sätt kan man dessutom reglera vilken radie man vill ha på "skålen" genom att trycka ned olika hårt. Och så kan man stapla flera ovanpå varandra i ett skåp med hjälp av en bakplåtshållare (?).

Weekly drawings 12-14

Inspired by Swedish artist and blogger Nina Johansson, I recently gave "weekly drawings" a shot and I must say I really like the idea. It forces me to draw something every week and I have decided to use it both for drawing practice (I really need to work on the compositions - I find it so hard to fit everything together!) and to keep a kind of drawing diary. I am working in my first ever sketchbook, a moleskin watercolor journal, and every new week starts off with the weekly drawing. Some weeks it´s the only one and other weeks I do several other sketches and drawings. Now when I have worked my way through more than half of the book I realise that I can go back and follow what has happend in my life - places I have been, things I have done (and eaten), the change of winter into spring etc. I tend to draw completely different things than I would take a photo of, which makes the journal/weekly drawings a good complement to a family album in order to document my life!

EDM 269 etc...

Grey and sepia ink with watercolour in Moleskin watercolour sketchbook.

Guess what, I managed a tripple challenge this week as well! I think I will make a sport out of it ;) The story is behind is kind of funny - I was going for this weeks challenge - EDM # 269, draw something annoying. I was sitting with my sketchbook wondering what really annoys me when suddenly my glasses fell from my nose, broken. "That´s annoying", I thought, and there it was.... Inspired by last week I went through the challenge list and found that my drawing also matches EDM#11, draw your glasses and EDM #167, draw something that needs fixing.

Edit: almost forgot to write - a friend of mine did a really neat drawing inspired by the apple pattern on my tablecloth - check that out if you would like to see what the apples really look like..... http://johannajazoo.blogspot.com/2010/04/apple-day.html (Although in reality the pattern is white apples on dark blue background.)

EDM #268 ( + #1 and #39)

EDM Challenge 268 - something you need... This was a tricky challenge, I think. I mean - what do I really need? Food and water obviously, but I wanted to find an object of some kind. So what is the first thing I would buy if my suitcase got lost at the airport, I thought? A toothbrush! (The part of the shoe is only there because I cut it out of a weekly drawing...)

Edit: a tip from Christie Wolf - it is actually a multiple challenge - I can also take credit for EDM # 1 Draw a shoe, and EDM #39 - draw a toothbrush! That´s what I call being efficient....

Drawing exercise

We made an interesting drawing exercise in the creativity group last time - to use several media and styles on the same subject. It is interesting to see how different it turns out. Also, they say you have to do a subject at least five times in order to know it - so the question is if it is possible to see any progress?? ;) Here, I started with a blind contour drawing in pencil, then a line drawing with felt tip marker, a pencil value drawing, a water colour and finally a combination of watercolour and ink - the last is the style I have practiced mostly in my sketch book inspired by for example Nina Johansson, and many other great artists.

Glad Påsk / Happy Easter

Sketchbook page, watercolour and ink.

Glad Påsk!

Happy Easter!

Frohe Ostern!

In Sweden this is at least traditional flowers for Easter - I don´t know about the rest of the world...