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Thursday, April 12th, 2012The next couple of posts will be filled with inspiration, as I present fellow artists, some old friends, others new I acquired several new art-pieces on this trip, and have started to hang them up on my inspiration-wall in my home-studio. The little bird-lady is made by Michelle Allen, my favorite BAFF (best-arting-friend-forever Her [...]
Uxmal
Sunday, April 8th, 2012Today we were blessed with a good guide again, and I learned – that Uxmal means “3 build”, meaning that it has been built in three different epochs. The first in ca 200-500AD by the Mayans. Their chief was a very smart man, who had the big pyramid-temple you can see to the right, built. [...]
Artfest 3
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012Third day, third workshop, even more intensely exciting than the two first ones. (I did remember to take some more photos this day, though) Me and teacher/artist/ICEresin-inventor Susan Lenart Kazmer. The class was called Transparent text, and we worked with ICE resin (which I´ve been curious about for years). And as if that wash´t exciting enough, [...]
Artfest 1
Monday, April 2nd, 2012By the time I´ve posted this, the 13th and last Artfest has come and gone. Such a wonderful event with such wonderful people! I do feel confident that I will meet some of them again. Already the first night we met all our old friends and some new ones too, and of course dorm 225 [...]
Arting at Michelle´s day 2
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012A new day at the top of the stairs. All the coolest Arting-ladies around came! Lulu working on her amazing trades. Can you believe, she´s making no less than a hundred dolls, and these still have loads more embellishment to come. She is just crazy cool! The never-resting Deirdra with her beautiful porcelain-like dolls. They´re [...]
Arting at Michelle´s day 1
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012The day´s adventure started in Alberta street. Meeting a bunch of other artists, some coming to Artfest, others not, but all met up at Collage, the art-store in the artsy part of Portland. Lunch with the arting-ladies! At the best home-made French food restaurant in Alberta. Portland is known as the greenest city in the [...]
Arrival
Monday, March 26th, 2012I´m back in the States. For the 13th (my 4th) and last Artfest. I flew in to Portland today, to spend some days with my adopted American family: the Allens. Michelle, her husband, her two girls, her parents and her in-laws; they all make me feel so welcome! I´m way too tired to be doing [...]
Kid´s art onboard Viking Prince
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012Viking Prince is Eidesvik´s new supply ship. The Christening is tomorrow, but there is so much art onboard this ship, I´ll show you some of it already today Remember I told you about the 6th grade at Hasund School where I had a couple of days teaching them how to mix colors and paint with [...]
metal-work
Thursday, March 15th, 2012From brightly shining and brand new copper… to hand-drawn runes (these are on brass) and oxidization. Layered and ready for the final details. I think this is gonna turn out not bad at all
Making trades
Sunday, March 11th, 2012A quiet and warm family weekend with Karoline. Working on an assignment about stars and radiation, and me trying to follow (she knows so much!). Well, while she was reading & writing, I was working on my trades for Artfest. Guess once! (Sorry, you just get one option!)
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