A new painting for LB 2013

Week 39 in Life Book 2013 was about loss. 

I did want to add a photo of my daughter as she is away and I miss her.

That is my loss.

Don´t know if I have told you but she lives in USA, studying, on her second year.

She has started in Honor Collage and has become a member of a sisterhood.

Everything is happening over there but Im sitting at home missing being with her when all these great things happening for her... but Im so happy for her.

"She believed she could so she did"

Thats the words I have for her because thats what she did..

Happy PPF to all of you and have a beautiful weekend.

Soul Food, a new class hosted by Mystele, Jeanette and Heather.

I have paid for my next class. This time I did chose to take Soul Food, hosted by Mystele, my favorite girl and with her are the fabulous Jeanette House and Heather Santos. For those that don´t know then Mystele is one of the teachers I met at the Life Book hosted by Tamara Laporte at Willowing.

The class will take six months and together with these great girls are so many great teachers, Ill only name the ones I know starting with 

Alaya art

Guadalupe

Jodi Ohl

Kristen Powers

MitsiB

Piarom 

and I think there will be about 30 other teachers.

Here you can read all about the artists

Soul Food

And if you want to join you can go to this web page and sign up

Soul Food

I think this class is going to be awesome.

I have not been painting a lot last days.

I did finish 2 more ballerina painting and made 3 hearts with a quote, great gift for a friends.

Happy PPF to all of you 

Always learning something new...

Have you ever seen such a beauty.... 

I did take a new class from the Trodden Path. 

The teacher was Kate Thompson.

I have made few paintings using the technic I learned but this is my favorite so far :)

I have made few ballerinas..

This is the first one I made, love it as well...

This was fun to make but I had to be patient because it has to dry in between layers so Im having 3-4 on my desk so that I can work on one while the other is drying..

Happy PPF to all of you :)

Have a beautiful weekend..

How to add your artwork to a candle..

I have got many question about how I make my candles with my artwork so Im going to try to show you how I do. Hope you follow, my english is far from perfect but Ill try.. :)

This is what I use:

candle

siscours

tape

copy paper

silk paper

heat gun.. 

and 

a waxpaper 

see next photo..

The waxpaper, I forgot to add him to the first photo...

I take the copy paper and the silk paper and tape the silk paper on to the copy paper.

You can see the tape on the left side, I only tape it one side.

Next I take it to my printer and make sure that you are having the silk paper big enough for your photo and that the printer is going to print on the silk paper side.

Yes.. the silk paper drinks my ink... and Yes I did have to take my printer apart once so tape the silk paper nicely and add tape all the way not only in the middle.

Now I have printed my artwork on the silk paper and the next step is to cut the lady out..

It is good to leave few mm white in the bottom and 1-2 mm on the top 

I dont know what this is called but Im going to call it heat gun.

You see the tine white line on the top

I place my photo on the candle and wrap the wax paper around tight, but only one round.. 

Here I did have to move my hand to take the photo but I do hold the paper tight so my photo does not move. You can see where the wax has begun to melt from the wax paper, I did start above her eye.

I I do work like this till the wax has melted all the way, be careful, not come to close to the candle with you heat gun, If the candle is getting to much heat it will start melt and we don´t want that to happen. You can stop and move your fingers over your picture and start again, nothing will happen. Do the edge well. 

Da..ra.. remove the wax paper

And it is ready....

These I did yesterday, going to take them to the gallery. 

You are welcome to leave a message and tell me what you think :)

On the right you can see a badged from the class I have signed up to for next year. It is called Soul Food and is hosted by Mystele, Jeanette and Heater and I think it is going to be a wonderful class with lot of interesting teachers. If you click on the little beautiful bird it will take you to the class page where you can read about the class.

Happy PPF to all of you ;)

She is my favorite....

This weekend we are having in festival in Iceland called Menningarnótt.

Menningarnótt or "cultural night" is a yearly event held in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, usually on the first Saturday after the 18th of August. It was created by the Reykjavík city council, and has now become one of the largest festivals in Iceland, rivaling the celebration of Iceland's national day on June 17th.

It is estimated that as many as 100,000 people attend the annual concerts and festivities conducted in central Reykjavík, a staggeringly high percentage of Iceland's total population of 315,000 and Reykjavík's population of nearly 118,000.

The festival often consists of a main stage in the city centre and many smaller events mostly in the city's centre but also spread over the city. The highlight of the festival is often an outside concert on the main stage by 3-4 of the most popular musicians in Iceland followed by a rather glamorous fireworks show.

One of the banks in Iceland, Arion Bank asked for 500 photos to spread over the city, at every bus stop in the city and I did send in a photo of my favorite Lovely Lady. 

I hope they will allow us to keep the poster, think it looks great so big.

Have a wonderful weekend and a happy PPF

A new painting from the Life Book, week 33.

This week we had Mindy Lacefield as a teacher at the Life Book.

I love her style and it looked so easy when she was painting but I had to struggle for hours until I was happy with mine. 

It was as always layers by layers and it was meant to be childish painting.

It looks like she is lost in the big city, trying to find someone to carry her heart with her :)

Have a wonderful weekend all of you and a happy PPF to all of you.

I did take a class with Mystele my favorite girl..

As I was looking through my groups I found a wonderful class with Mystele and it was a free one.. not bad..

The class was about how to use Chalk Pastel ... with Gesso.

First I tried to make one but it was not working so I did try again.

After talking to Mystele I started slowly, using a good brush trying to avoid 

making a mess.

And it worked...

Im happy with the one I made and I have started on another painting using the same method.

This one is almost done..... I have to work a little more on the colors..

For me it is difficult to make a lady with small or tiny hands or a big head, 

Im always trying to play with my paintings.... 

Tell me what you think...

Have a beautiful day all of you and a happy PPF to all of you :)

That´s how they look now :)

Last week I posted a photo of my almost finished angels.

Today Im so happy to show you how they look now when Im finished with them. 

Hope that you like how they look :) 

I love to draw and paint little angels with their beautiful wings and people 

must like them as I have sold all so many of them, now I have only these two at my Gallery. 

I love this little princess, she does not have a wings but she is still an angel. 

Look at her face, isn't she just beautiful standing there in front of the houses :)

As Im taking Life Book 2013 I have not been dooing all of the classes. 

Yesterday I did start on this one, the teacher was wonderful Jeanette House 

and I found this lesson so interesting so I did finish that one in no time :) 

Now Im going to do Effy´s Wild lesson, Ill show you my painting 

next time but it is all about hearts  :)

Hope that you have a wonderful week and a happy PPF to all of you.

...Namaste...

Im back with 3 little angels :)

After two weeks away from home Im back home.

I have had a wonderful time, resting, exercising and eating healthy.

Now I can post the picture I could not from my Ipad, if you know how I can post a picture from Ipad to blog please let me know.

This is the first one I made and wanted to show you last friday.

This is a little beauty with big eyes, love her.

Then I did start making two more whimsy angels but this is just the beginning  I have a lot more to do, playing around with my stamps. 

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend

Happy PPF to all of you 

Nothing to show you...

As i told you last week then Im staying at a great Helth Hotel in Iceland, 
eating only vegetable and fruits, exersising and feeling great.

I took with me a little box of supplies and paper. 
And today I did start painting. I made this beautiful little girl 
but I dont know why I cant add photos 
I took of my panting from my Ipad to my blog, anyone?
So I have nothing to show you as Im away from home.
Im so sorry..

My old style....

Before I got to know Mixed media I used to paint like this, using oil and dark colors.

I kind of like this style.

I did even paint still life, this was the first time I did paint apples and oranges :-)

The reason Im posting old paintings is that Im on two weeks hollyday staying in a helth hotel enjoing my stay, eating only vegetables and soups and I cant wait for the yoga class in the morning :-)

But of cours I did take with me some art stuff so next friday Ill post something new..

Happy PPF to all of you

It is Friday again..

How come it is Friday again, time is passing by to fast for me..

This week I have been very busy. I was getting my gift cards from the printer and I did go to few shops in Reykjavík and some did buy cards from me and are going to sell in their shop, thats feels good.... and few told me to come back in august after the sales :)

Now I have them in two sizes, small and big :)

They look so good and the paper quality is great as the colors. 

This is a watercolor painting I made of a famous mountain here in Iceland, called Snæfellsjökull. 

and here is another one. I have sold many of those in the gallery, turist buy them mostly. 

And in all the busy time I could finis this one, now I only have one more left to finish. I love to paint my angels, this is the only one that has short hair, dont know if I like it. 

The stamp around the angel that is like a feather is from Kristin Powers, Kae Pea, 

this is her FB page. She makes many nice stamps.

I bought a surprise bag from her once and she did send me few things and this stamp.

Love it.

One of my favorite Mixed Media artist is Juliette Crane. She does paint such a beautiful owls, bears, girls and other beautiful things. In many of her painting you can see dream catcher. I did not know what it was so I did a search on  Google and found a video on youtube ..how to make.. and I did make one for me to have next to my bed. I dont know why I did add one black feather, I dont like that one and Im always going to change it for a purple one, Ill do it one day :) maybe the black one catches the bad dreams :)

Thats all for now

Have a beautiful weekend all of you and a happy PPF :)

I need more time in my life.... so that I can create more...

Finally the summer is here, no more school, no more students.... 

8 weeks of holidays and I pray for the sun and good weather as 

Im staying at home not doing anything special except create.... and create a lot.

Last weekend I made few origami crane and took them to the gallery.

 I love all these colors and different pearls. 

As I have sold all my other whimsy angels I had to make a new one, 

I had two unfinished so now I have only one more of my whimsy angels to paint. 

I think I like this one, think she is peaceful with her candle.

Even the green color is looking pretty good, most of the time 

I dont like green colors at all...

but my eyes are green :)

The day before yesterday I did go through my Life Book file. 

I have so many classes to finish. 

One of the classes was there screaming at me to start working right now... 

that was a class with Mitsi B. 

I enjoyed it so much as I made this painting, 

working with my fingers, brushes, brayer, sticks and paper. 

This one is made of 6 x A4 watercolor papers that I did glue together.

Most of the time Im trying to make a pretty face 

but this time I did not. 

It was like drawing like a child. 

Im in love with this painting, think she is **frameable** as one 

lady said in one of my groups on FB. 

As you can see I love to create, I love to create in different ways.

Try new things and trying not to be scared of things I have never tried before.

But sometimes I think, why dont you try to find your own way, your own style and create. 

That´s not easy as I love to learn, I am always studying, learning new things.

I love to create....

I love to create....

I love to create....

Have a beautiful weekend and a happy PPF to all of you..

Few things I have to show you :)

Do you remember My Lovely Ladies? This one is one of them, the one I love a lot, think she is fabulous with her little bird on her shoulder.

Few days ago I tried to make one at work, 

I had some clay left that I was about to throw away 

but decided to try to make one of my ladies in stead. 

I think she came out beautiful and Im going to make few 

like this one and paint and maybe add some mosaik 

to the bird and her neck.

What do you think about her?

One more thing I want to show you. 

If you look at the brush that is laying on my 

new painting you can see that it is a big chines one. 

This is my favorite brush believe it or not. 

Think you should buy one and try, 

It is unbelievable how easy it is to paint with one, 

but it was an expensive one.

And I have painted all of this and the next one to 

with only this brush and neocolor.

Looking good or not?

 These are old drawings that I have to finish so I took them to my 

sofa corner with my big brush and neocolorbox.There I painted them. 

Now I have to use withe acryl color so I cant do more painting in my sofa. 

Im hoping that they will turn out beautiful. 

Have a beautiful day, all of you and a happy PPF :)