Technique
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011My final workshop at Art & Soul was with Lisa Call. Her Charm School was another just wonderful class. Using PMC (precious metal clay) we made silver beads and charms. The larger ones we baked in a kiln (below), but the smaller ones we could fire with a buthan-torch, as Lisa is demonstrating (above). So [...]
Art&Soul: Fire torch enamel
Friday, September 30th, 2011I attended my second workshop today: Painting with Fire torch Fired Enamel! by Barbara Lewis. Oh, what fun! I´ve said it before, I´ll say it again: I LOVE learning new stuff! I hardly had time or thought of taking photos, I just got in there and experimented and produced one enameled bead after the other. [...]
Art&Soul: Silk dreams
Thursday, September 29th, 2011Tuesday evening I attended my first class as a student, and as you can tell by the title, this is a good one! “Silk dreams!” Seriously?! A dream-come-true! Under the superb guidance of Liz Kettle, we did things with left-over silk fibers I didn´t even know was possible! I´m sorry to say the photos just [...]
Peter parrot
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011Soon, and very soon, I am going to Art&Soul in Portland. I am so looking forward to it, and would be thrilled if you´d join me! It´s still not to late to enroll! If you haven´t checked out the link already, please do, there are so many great workshops there, and so much inspiration! One [...]
how-to: image-transfer
Saturday, June 4th, 2011So here is a little crafty weekend project for you, if you haven´t tried this before. Transferring a photo to fabric. 1. Take a photo-copy of your photo. Remember to flip it horizontally. 2. Put lots of glue directly on the paper. I use a glue specially made for this, called “Lakk-lim” which means varnish-glue [...]
Boat-house finished
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011I finished the boat-house picture today. Working on making the colors more intense, adding details. Like the water The finished picture is 30 x 80 cm, and is painted in acrylics with matte medium.
Fish skin
Saturday, February 19th, 2011What was your first thought when you read the title? “She´s blogging about what she had for dinner!?!” Nope, that´s not it. I got yet another exciting package in the mail, this time from Denmark. With a very exotic content! Leather from a snake, a “steinbit” ( is that a catfish?), a salmon and a [...]
Angels
Saturday, January 15th, 2011The map and the glory-rays are a bit closer to finish, but instead of finishing them completely, I was tempted beyond my limit to start on one of the angels. I did the halos yesterday, painted first with gold-paint, and then added the gold-leaf (or gold-colored metal-leaf to be precise) Today it was nice and [...]
Booklace
Monday, December 27th, 2010…or book-necklace. I want this one to be special, so I´m bringing out the good stuff for this one! Here I´ve started on the cover. I´m using a petroleum-blue dyed water-snake skin. Fast forward a couple of days later, and the book is finished. The pages are made from handmade, grey paper. Adding a few special [...]
Sculpting a puppets head
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010I am about to teach a class in theatre-puppets, and decided to have a go at it, to renew the knowledge. Using DAS-clay, a kind of mix between paper-maché and plaster over a base of tin-foil. The first picture is just a lump, really. Not even much of a skull-shape, which would have been a [...]
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