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The road to Rainbow Kitten

The road to Rainbow Kitten

Creativity can take you anywhere. That’s what I love the most about creativity. You know? Sometimes, when you’re sitting and creating, and all of a sudden… Related PostsPop Art DIY Postcards Painted circles ad infinitum Calming Scalloped Pattern | Paint along with me! A green flower growing Art Journal Peek: Pink Geraniums

It’s getting cold outside

It’s getting cold outside

This morning my breath looked like smoke when I came out from our house. The days are still quite warm when the sun is out, but at night frost have been seen. When I biked to town this morning I was thinking about mittens, and the many dark days to come. I wished I had […]

Mixed media painting

Mixed media painting

This is a mixed media painting on a canvas that I made last week. I put all my paints on the living room floor and made it in steps. Started with my vellum pen, continued with Chinese papers and paint. Then I also tried a picture transfer with gel medium – and it worked. The […]

Adolescent | Assemblage Doll Painting II

Adolescent | Assemblage Doll Painting II

My second assemblage ever. I’m such a newbie at this, but I enjoyed the process and hmm.. the result too actually. Even though so many of you seem to think I’m deranged… And I don’t mind! I look at these two assemblages with dolls (they are not barbies but much smaller) and I might agree, […]

Adulthood | a try at assemblage

Adulthood | a try at assemblage

ASSEMBLAGE An artistic process in which a three-dimensional artistic composition is made from putting together found objects. Assemblage is the three-dimensional cousin of collage. [quote from here] I’ve been wanting to work with assemblage for a long time, and since I am drawn to dolls of all kinds I went with that. I love my […]

A Pink Mondrian

A Pink Mondrian

Here is a detail of my painting: I keep calling this painting my Mondrian even though it’s painted by me, Hanna, and not Mondrian himself! If I could afford a Mondrian I wouldn’t buy one anyway, hehe! I made mine in pink, even though Mondrian is red-blue-yellow, and I also used some bits of text […]

Smiling crow painting

Smiling crow painting

I’ve made a painting! It looks like this: It’s a smiling crow painted in gouache tempera on canvas (23×30 cm), with collaged flowers on top (with papers from a vintage music sheet). It was so interesting to see it grow out of a sketch (you might recognize its origins from a postal stamp image I […]