People who draw
Today has been all about drawing people who draw. After a short while I realized I needed a model and volunteered myself. :) (Click to enlarge.)
View ArticleSketching and brainstorming
This is how a lot of work starts for me, sketching and brainstorming on scraps of paper. It’s fun to save these early maps of what I’d like to do and compare to the finished piece. They’re also great...
View ArticleIdeas behind ideas
Some days it’s harder than others to spot progress. I take out my binoculars and no results in sight. Yet the desk gets messier and messier. ;) In reality, though, I know this is how it works. For me,...
View ArticleA few reminders
This week has been wonderful in many ways. One thing that happened was I didn’t get a job that I thought I would get (short, pretty boring story), and surprisingly this left me feeling relieved. And it...
View ArticleComputer free days
I’ve been experimenting with computer free days lately. Some of the things that I’ve observed while doing so are pretty remarkable to me. Here’s a short list of things I’ve noticed so far: - On...
View ArticleI wonder
I wonder, if perhaps underneath the hesitation that I sometimes feel about making things, get going – start – there’s a disbelief that it’ll make a difference. A disbelief that I’ll actually be able...
View ArticleFifteen years ago today
Whenever I think about true creative happiness, my mind goes to a room in a house in Växjö. I’m seventeen years old, Amme is sixteen. It’s the middle of the night. We’re sitting on a mattress on the...
View ArticleAn early sketch and a few challenges (part 2)
This is an early sketch for the poster I’ve been working on. Roughly, I knew I wanted some sort of representation of present cultural/political problems in the background, and in the foreground...
View ArticleImagination poster (part 4, the finished version)
Final version of the Imagination poster. (Click to enlarge.) This project has essentially been about flexing my imagination-muscles, and my ”in spite of contemporary opinions”-muscles, actually all...
View ArticleGood things
I stumbled upon this book, Let’s make some great art by Marion Deuchars, at the Museum of Modern Art here in Malmö last summer. I finally ordered it a couple of weeks ago and today it arrived in the...
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