Butterflies and fish - a travel memory?

EDM 316 - a travel memory. I joined my eldest daughter on a trip with the kindergarden the other week. I don´t know if it counts as travelling, but anyway.... They went to an indoor tropical forest in Stockolm, Fjärilshuset ("The butterfly house"), where they have butterflies, tropical fish and some birds. I did some painting with the kids, which they loved, and later I gave these paintings as a present to her teachers as they are both leaving after this year, as is my daughter. I hope it was appreciated - I always feel a bit nervous about giving away my art as gifts. But as I don´t visit these persons they can easily keep their paintings in a drawer if they don´t like them without feeling ashamed!

Some new EDM:s

I haven´t been able to log in at blogger for almost a whole week. Strange! But I have published my every day in May´s on Flicker at least... Here are my two latest catch-ups. It is unbelievable how hard it is for me to squeeze in drawing-time every day! I had really planned not to do too complicated stuff and to give my self 10 minutes each day for this. But time just seems to slip through my fingers somehow. This weekend I was alone with the kids and had to do a birthday cake, so now I am behind again...

Every Day in May - catch up!

On top of everything else I am engaged in at the moment, I also said I will do the Every Day in May challenge this year. One sketch a day.... I started out badly by missing the first five, so I had to do a panic-catchup. But now I am on track again....until tomorrow! From the top the sketches show EDMs No: 

#101, draw a bar of soap 

#102, draw a power plug

#103 draw some exercise equipment (the blue things in the bottom sketch - if you wonder, it is some things you kick at when training martial arts, don´t know what they are called in English... It was the first thing that fell out of the fitness-bag when i searched, but I must confess that it was a couple of years since I used them!)

#104 draw some salt and pepper shakers (only had room left for one, though....)

#105 draw some scissors

#106 draw something tart or sour. Well, I don´t know what tart means, so I went for sour... the lemon in the middle sketch.

All of the above done in my Moleskin Watercolour Notebook with watercolour and ink.

Work in progress...

I have been drawing a bit lately, but haven´t really had the time to post... One thing that I have started is an illustration project for a swim club where a friend of mine works as a coach. I have been doing some sketches for style ideas. They shall work as icons in small sizes and be easy to recognize for the kids, at the same time they want it a bit artistic and with a feeling of watercolour. Well, here are some suggestions for sea stars. I am always happy for suggestions and comments. Which one is your favourite?

EDM 291 - book illustration

EDM 291 - draw an illustration for the cover of your favourite book.

The Shire

Well, this has taken me a while.... Simultaneously as this challenge came out I got as homework for my illustrations course to make a series of illustrations for a book, so I thought I would kill two birds with one stone, and did my all time favourite - the Lord of the rings. This turned out to be harder than I could imagine since there was so much pressure from all those years of reading and imagining, watching the movie, admiring the drawings of Alan Lee... well, you get the idea.

Long time, no update

Watercolour and pencil in Moleskin Watercolour Notebook

Well, I have been rather busy lately.... a lot to do at work, and constantly ill. I have had all sorts of "normal" colds, a lot of fever and added mysterious loss of feeling in half of my body, which led to that I ended up in the hospital beeing x-rayed all over and having all sorts of tests taken. This is a drawing I made in my sketchbook while waiting for an x-ray examination. They never found anything though, which was a relief. Let´s just hope it was a normal winter-cold-attack or something...

In the spirit of... 2

...Stina Persson. Well, this is the second assignment for my illustration class, to make some illustrations in the spirit of an other illustrator. It was supposed to be illustrations showing our selfs in a situation from our daily life, and I found this quite hard to do in her style, which leaves little room for details. But this is an attempt at showing myself drinking coffee in the style of Stina Persson. I just love her work, it is the kind of painting that inspire me on one hand and make me truly jealous that I didn´t think of it on the other...