Colour swatches and poetic words
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. Federico García Lorca Colour swatches belongs in your journal. This months crusade is about colours and naming them. It’s a welcome reminder that...
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I am transparent and writing becomes visible inside me words in invisible ink which appear when the paper is held to the fire! Tomas Tranströmer (in translation) So Katze, a painted cat, was inspired...
View ArticleOn the streets of spring
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium...
View ArticleArt journal peek: A Very Brown Page
Fishy poetry in my art journal. en koffertfisk, att bygga stora snäckor med ekar och smultronträd, lycka och glädje. Found poetry poem by iHanna. Translated it would sound something like this: a...
View ArticleLet’s play with Found Poetry
Here is another spread with lots of circle fascination, where I’ve also played with cut out words and created my own (Swedish) Found Poetry. I love these little poems! They make me smile because the...
View ArticleMandala drawing #2: snowflakes
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake… Francis Bacon These two looks like...
View ArticleStaring at the blank page before you…
I am unwritten, can’t read my mind, I’m undefined I’m just beginning, the pen’s in my hand, ending unplanned Staring at the blank page before you Open up the dirty window Let the sun illuminate the...
View ArticleThis moment is enough
Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. Mother Teresa I adore my phone’s camera because it is with me all the time, every moment, to capture the moment… As I come...
View ArticleWord Poetry Postcards
I got a good start with my postcard this year, totally in the flow while painting my big papers, as you can see in the postcard video I made. When my papers where covered in paint and dry, I added...
View ArticleMaking a few Extra Postcards
To some of you I know that the thought of making 10 postcards can be overwhelming, but if you give it time its very doable. You start with a background, painting it or finding it (cutting out a pretty...
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