sartorialisting

SO - a new one. I kept forgetting about the sketch for this being from the sartorialist. I always seem to end up in the outline-or-no-outline dilemma these days, but i wanted to keep the outline this time no matter what the result would be.

crystallised

I think i reached an extremity with this one.. It doesnt look at all like i imagined, haha! but it was fun! :) for TAW-monkey

experiments

One of the artists i follow here on this worldwide internet recently said this. I thought it was a really good idea and I have been looking at the sartorialist as well :)

i wanted to play around with some different styles, and here are three finished ones and the next one i am working on. I think i will try out more textures..

boys and girls

TAW-monkey

VÆSEN is on youtube!

I am very excited to tell you that the graduation film i worked on is now posted on youtube! We graduated last week and it is so amazingly great to finally be able to share the film :D It was done in 8 months and we were 6 people on the team: Adrian Dexter, Birk Von Brockdorff, Arnold Bagasha, Jody Ghani, Mikkel V. Petersen and me :)

also, take a look at the 5 other graduation films done by the rest of my classmates here. (wing, space stallions, slug invasion, ride of passage and load)

Diane Cluck's Song-of-the-week-project!

Hello friends! I will now present to you a project i am really hoping will be realised: Diane Cluck's Song-of-the-week-project!

Diane Cluck is one of my favourite song makers, and her music is like glittering pieces of magic. The first song i heard and instantly fell in love with was "easy to be around" and there was something strange about it and her other songs - they didn't catch me right away, but i still kept listening for some reason - there was something about them, a feeling that couldn't be explained. and one by one they started to grow and bloom in my ears, and now i love all of her songs. I never get tired of listening to them.

in december 2011 she was on 'spinning on air' - where she is interviewed and she plays a mix of new and old songs, and it's really cosy.

Song-of-the-week is a project that will go on for six months. every week she will write, record and distribute a song, ending with a total of 24 songs. The project need subscribers to come true and there are different levels of subscriptions. Take a look and listen to some of her songs, maybe you'll like it too. she also has a shop on her website where you can listen to her songs. regardless, this music means a lot to me - which is why i'm sharing! :)

the days that ended.

Christmas and EndOfYear-events have passed, as well as my days as an intern at Mikrofilm. Because i had such a lovely time, i am going to post some photos. Everyone i met in Norway has been really great, but especially Lise and Kajsa - thank you! :)

And these are some photos from my last days. In this one Cathinka and Magnhild are decorating the studio for the annual christmas party.

the cosy christmas party:

Leftovers from the christmas party, and my last day at mikrofilm.

happy lunch times with leftover food from the party.

And in the evening, which was my last evening in Oslo as well, Lise took me to a christmas presents making workshop with her family. Seemingly, i tend to build houses by default now :)

This next photo is taken by Andreas. quite unexpectedly in the middle of the christmas party i suddenly got presents! lovely books ! :)

these are the books: three comics and a rather large book with wonderful photos of brilliant paper crafts!

thank you, all of you!

and merry christmas and happy new year! :)

wilderness

i've been working on this the whole weekend and now i give up! Hm. taw-monkey

shamy.

hahaha. i just had to draw it. it was cute :)

Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler from The Big Bang Theory.

the daily doodle challenge.

I forgot to bring my coloured pencils with me to norway, so i bought some new ones. It turned out to be a happy misfortune since i think these are the best coloured pencils i've ever had :)

carina suggested that we should draw something every day and send a photo to each other of the drawing - here are two of them :)

face in the crowd

wow, that was exhausting... made for the TAW-monkey theme "face in the crowd" and this is not at all how i envisioned it to be. and as you might notice i got a little lazy.. i like it, though. but i've never been so energy-drained from colouring a drawing before. i think it's movie watching time.

current arts and crafts

At work:

At home:

paperworld!

At the moment i spend my days building various objects in paper. So far i've made a house, a trampoline, benches, different types of trash cans and these flowers :)

what i wore 01.10.2011

for the flickr group - 'what i wore today (drawings only)' - always nice when you feel like making a doodle ;)

time travel.

a little piece for TAW-monkey's current theme ''time traveller'' - i have two other themes on paper, but it's not so easy to get them scanned at the moment, and also i keep forgetting to bring them to work (where the scanner is). Consequently this is done in photoshop-tvpaint-photoshop-tvpaint-photoshop (...). with my tiny A6 tablet, haha. drawing everything digitally is so time consuming!

There you go, 6 hours of my life:

ahh the compression on blogger is horrible! click here to see this drawing on flickr.

Norwegian forest world.

Last sunday Kajsa invited me to join her family on a trip to the forest, and it was lovely! we walked from Frognerseteren to Skjennungstua and back again. These photos don't really capture exactly how beautiful and wonderful everything was - but i wanted to share them anyway :) I want to live in this forest! And there should be a river, like the one that flows through Oslo, and with a lot of amazing colourful fish! and i would lie beside it every night and listen to the water's trickling.

jodysang vil jeg gerne.

This is a drawing i did for my dear friend Jody for her birthday :)

the swap.

here is a drawing i did for the sweet miina prikk in return for one of her lovely notebooks! :)

(i didnt have time to scan it at the school, so this is a photo) - below is the book miina made :D

potter pals.

(an experiment) ginny, harry, luna, hermione, ron and neville.

harry-james and ginevra.

harry potter and ginny weasley. i don't normally envision ginny with her hair full of roses, but i was trying something out for something else. harry's jumper text is from 'potter puppet pals: the mysterious ticking noise' :)