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I think I’m having the cozyest time at work thoughout this project with illustrating “Trøysteboka”. I’m sketching up the cover now (lots of creatures comforting eachother) and listening to Múm.

I needed this, it was all so sad now after what happened in Oslo on Friday.

When words don’t suffice.

 

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There is actually no room for hate in my heart right now. I’m filled with so much care for the survivors, victims and their families that it overshadows anything else.

21 STORIES INKED AND WATERCOLOURED

PUH!

Now, at 13.38 Friday 22th of July I managed to finish all the illustrations for the stories in Trøysteboka. Time to rejoice!! Or…? Now comes the editing. The drawings I want to re-do, the drawings that needs more work, and some things that just didn’t work out and need to be drawn differently. And finishing up the cover. This needs to be done in exactly one week. WHOOHAA!:D


 
 


YAY:D:D

THE WEEKLY MONSTER

A friend of mine from London wrote in her Facebook-status: “DON’T google giant squid eye.” So I did, and here’s the result of what that lead to.

ALMOST THERE:D

 
I just HAD to see what it would look like if I spread out all the work I’ve done the last few months. (And I have still a few more stories to go for “Trøysteboka” with Skald publishing house, but as said: almost there.) Doing this made me feel much better about finishing this project, the strain has been almost unbearable the last few weeks, but now I can see an end to the whole thing and it looks GREAT:D YAY!!

DRAWING MONSTERS

Saturday I participated at Made in Bergen’s “Chocolate Olympics”, where kids could come and play and attend different games and win chocolate medallions:) Made in Bergen is a shop at Holmedalsgården filled with quirky and fun designs from several of my former co-students at KHIB, worth a visit. I had a monster drawing course there where the kids left with many scary end products. Good fun.

The girl who made this told me it was a monster inside a monster with dots. The best title for a monster this time was “Screaming Ass Monster” that another kid drew, haha:D
 
I had a stall as well, although the monster drawing took most of my attention. I sold a few pictures and t-shirts, and met many talkative and great people that had a good laugh of some of the things I had written on my illustrations.

   
The fair was held at Holmedalsgården at Bryggen in Bergen, a cozy space that should be used more by the public. So calm and so central with some cute little shops surrounding it. Looking forward to the next fair here:)

THE LUCKY WINNERS:)

   


 

With a little help from Roar & Ronny at Katapult Media whom I’m sharing office with we now have 5 lucky winners! Wheeee:D
 
I have contacted the ones that won, hooray!!

SHORT STORY COMPETITION

In August I’m illustrating the short story that wins Fjord1 writing competition. Dealine for text in any genre is 1st of August. So if you feel you have a blooming writer in you, send your poem/short story/epic novel to Fjord1. They would love to hear from you! The winner gets a trip and stay at beautiful hotel Walaker, including getting your text published. Read more about the contest here.

 

(Examples of earlier work made for different published texts.)

Good luck:)

KILLER KLOWNS GIVEAWAY!

I have a few t-shirts for both kids and grown ups waiting for a good home. (If you are not afraid of pocorn, that is.)

Popcorn has never been so evil

I am giving away five of the t-shirts with my own version of a Killer Klown that I got fresh from the printers just minutes ago. Please leave your contact details/blogadress in the commentary field in this post and five winners will be picked at random. Giveaway closing at midnight Wednesday 13th of July.



These to are examples of size 4/6 yrs, and adult Small. Happy hunting

SHIP O’HOY

I’m finishing up a story about an old sailor finding new love, and here is a sneak preview at his (maybe) future soulmate. It still needs more work, but the scene itself is in place. To make her a link to his own life filled with ships and sailing, I made her clothing line from a wooden hoist, thick rope and her bedsheets as a “sail”. I can’t wait to see this story with the text laid out. IIiiihh!

TEA, JEFF BECK AND SWALLOWS

I’m listening to Imelda May and Jeff Beck’s album “Live at the Iriduim” out loud while illustrating a story called “Rita Forever”. I’ve made the story rockabilly/sailor style all the way trough, this is certainly one of my gems for “Trøysteboka”.

 
Ah, what a splendid day at work.:)

OLD ROCKABILLY DRAWINGS

I found this one all lost and forgotten at the bottom of my drawer today. I love the imagery, but never got around to finish it up, something always came up. Since im coloring in some others tomorrow I’ll include her.

It’s on an A3 sheet, that’s probably why I never finished it, it’s larger than my “normal” drawings and takes longer to finish. But all the work for the book I’m making is on A3, so it’s less intimidating now.

PRETENDING IT’S SUMMER

I’m drawing flaming rockabilly hearts for a story, fits in nicely with the the whole Heart Shaped Goodies –theme I’m apparently in for the moment. I took it further by making heart shaped crisp bread too haha! With salad flames I’ll post the whole process nest week.


Gin Tonic bubbles, didn’t have lime so I used lemon instead. It looked so refreshing with the blue straw! I’m certainly into color for the moment, all my drawings are radiating with bright colors too.

We keep pretending it’s summer, (maybe that’s the reason for all the bright colors in my drawings) that’s how I go the flu too. Staying in my balcony or someone elses balcony just beacuse it’s supposed to be warm outside now doesn’t make it so.

Now I’m defying both nature and flu and going to my office to scan my work for Trøysteboka.