Tuesday 24 December 2013

Santa's hat nails

Santa's hat nails by ewian
Santa's hat nails, a photo by ewian on Flickr.

Getting ready for Christmas

Sunday 31 March 2013

90/365:2013 ATC pink dream

90-365 ATC 2013 pink dream

Some times it is all about the colour.

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Medium used: embossing powder and ink pad.

Saturday 30 March 2013

89/365:2013 ATC Mother hen and her chicks II

89-365 ATC 2013 Mother hen and her chicks II

Have you ever played the game Mother hen and her chicks? It is a sweet little game to play with little children or when you want to get children to get to know each other.

In Norwegian: http://www.ewian.com/hoonemor_og_kyllingene.html

In English: http://www.ewian.com/mother_hen_and_her_chicks.html


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Medium used: watercolour and permanent marker.

Friday 29 March 2013

88/365:2013 ATC Mother hen and her chicks I

88-365 ATC 2013 Mother hen and her chicks I

Have you ever played the game Mother hen and her chicks? It is a sweet little game to play with little children or when you want to get children to get to know each other.

In Norwegian: http://www.ewian.com/hoonemor_og_kyllingene.html

In English: http://www.ewian.com/mother_hen_and_her_chicks.html


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Medium used: watercolour and permanent marker.

Thursday 28 March 2013

87/365:2013 ATC Ingrid

87-365 ATC 2013 Ingrid

The first time I saw marbled yarn. Was when my childhood friend Ingrid's mother had knitted her a pink sweater. Remember I found it fascinating.

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Wednesday 27 March 2013

86/365:2013 ATC cotton candy balls

 86-365 ATC 2013 cotton candy balls

When she closed her eyes saw cotton candy balls floating in the air.

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Medium used: watercolour, permanent marker and gloss medium for the candy balls.

Tuesday 26 March 2013

85/365:2013 ATC Roseine

85-365 ATC 2013 Roseine


Roseine is a shade of magenta and this girls name.

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Medium used: watercolour and glitter pen for the glasses.

Monday 25 March 2013

84/365:2013 ATC girl with two pearl earrings

84-365 ATC 2013 girl with two pearl earrings  

It's super annoying to lose an earring, but this girl has managed to preserve both.

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Medium used: watercolour and permanent marker.

Sunday 24 March 2013

83/365:2013 ATC cast to the wind

83-365 ATC 2013 cast to the wind

This paper plane is cast to the wind. Made with the encaustic technique.

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Medium used: bee wax and wax pastel.

Saturday 23 March 2013

82/365:2013 ATC Frenchy

82-365 ATC 2013 Frenchy

Frenchy is one of the main characters in Grease. She is one of the members of the Pink Ladies. She drops out of highschool to go to beauty school, which fails and she ends up with pink hair.

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Medium used:watercolour and colouring pencil.

Friday 22 March 2013

81/365:2013 ATC blotting paper for sorrows

81-365 ATC 2013 blotting paper for sorrows

"Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows" ~Lithuanian proverb


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Medium used: acrylic paint, permanent marker and colouring pencil.

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Thursday 21 March 2013

80/365:2013 ATC spring dress

80-365 ATC 2013 spring dress

21. of March mark the calendar from winter to summer, vårjevndøgn, spring equinox. So to this girl, I give her a spring dress.

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Medium used:watercolour and permanent marker.

Wednesday 20 March 2013

79/365:2013 ATC clear philosophical formation

79-365 ATC 2013 clear philosophical formation


The words "clear philosophical formation" are translated from Norwegian, they are random words from the book page the ATC is made on.

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Medium used: acrylic paint and permanent marker on vintage book page.

Tuesday 19 March 2013

78/365:2013 ATC no flying

78-365 ATC 2013 no flying

There's no flying without wings.

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Medium used: gel and glitter pen.

Monday 18 March 2013

77/365:2013 ATC Mrs. March

77-365 ATC 2013 MrsMarch
77/365:2013 ATC  Mrs. March

Mrs. March is an eternal optimist, she plants pansies and marigolds and hopes that the summer is coming soon so she can set the flowers outside.

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Medium used: watercolour, colouring pencil and pencil.

iHannas spring postcard swap 2013

For the last three years I have been a part of iHannas spring postcard swap. This year I am joining the iHanna postcard swap again. I have gotten some really nice card, some still hang on display in my studio, not to mention all the fun I had making the cards I sent.

It is so nice "meeting" people from around the world and getting a glimpse of there life through there creativity and art. I am so looking forward to the cards that will be delivered to my mail box. I'll post them up here as I get them.

Here are the cards I have made in the past

2012
Balloon and boxes

2011
three little fishes hanging in a row - in the mail

2010
February postcard3 - EWian

The rules are simple.

Join the swap by paying the 6 dollar fee via paypal. The small fee will make people that are joining more serious and they will send out there cards.

The last sign up date is 24th of March 2013.

Make 10 handmade postcards any style – your choice of postcard size. Bought postcards are beautiful – but those are not welcome in this swap. Instead try to be artistic with your cards! DIY actually means “Do It Yourself.

The cards need to mailed no later than March 30!

Would love to see your cards in the swap!



Sunday 17 March 2013

76/365:2013 ATC goodluck clover

76-365 ATC 2013 st.patrick's day
76/365:2013 ATC goodluck clover

A clover with four leafs, instead of three leafs, is a common good luck symbol in many countries. To find such a clover with four leafs a sign of personal success and luck. The klover with four leafs is therefore a widespread symbol of luck and regarded as a lucky charm. Some people think that random luck is about to seeing and seizing opportunities. When I was a child, I found many such clovers with four leaves. It was perhaps most about that, as children we were out doors a lot, and with a little attention to detail one could see when there was something that stood out.

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Medium used: glitter, glue and a real four leaf clover dried and pressed.

Saturday 16 March 2013

75/365:2013 ATC manic panic electric green hair

75-365 ATC 2013 manic panic electric green hair
75/365:2013 ATC manic panic electric green hair

Way back in the 90's I actually had green hair. My hair was bleached 3 times to knock the natural red out of it. The red did not go away, but the hair got green anyway.

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Medium used: acrylic paint.

Friday 15 March 2013

74/365:2013 ATC catching the moon

74-365 ATC 2013 catching the moon
74/365:2013 ATC catching the moon
I have played around with this motive lots of time this time the moon balloon was cracked.
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Medium used: pen, watercolour, acrylic paint, crackling paint.

Thursday 14 March 2013

73/365:2013 ATC Miss Harmony

73-365 ATC 2013 Miss Harmony
73/365:2013 ATC  Miss Harmony

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Medium used: acrylic paint, colouring pencil and collage.

Wednesday 13 March 2013

72/365:2013 ATC St.pat hedgehog

72-365 ATC 2013 St.pat hedgehog
72/365:2013 ATC St.pat hedgehog

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Medium used: acrylic paint.

Tuesday 12 March 2013

71/365:2013 ATC simple harmony

71-365 ATC 2013 simple harmony
71/365:2013 ATC simple harmony

Just a simple play with modelling paste and watercolour in the colours: red, blue and yellow.

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Medium used: modelling paste and watercolour.

Monday 11 March 2013

70/365:2013 ATC four clover girl

70-365 ATC 2013 four clover girl
70/365:2013 ATC four clover girl

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Medium used: crackling paint, acrylic paint and watercolour.

Sunday 10 March 2013

69/365:2013 ATC Pheasant

69-365 ATC 2013 pheasant

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Medium used:acrylic paint, permanent marker,

Saturday 9 March 2013

68/365:2013 ATC onyx choker

68-365 ATC 2013 onyx choker
68/365:2013 ATC onyx choker

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Medium used: acrylic paint and colouring pencil.


Friday 8 March 2013

67/365:2013 ATC Happy Women's Day

67-365 ATC 2013 Happy Women's Day
The idea behind the International Women's Day was to make a strategy to promote equal rights, including suffrage, for women. Sadly after more than 100 years being a women does not give you equal rights, nor equal worth as a man.



when the music stops...


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Medium used: button, ribbons, permanent marker, acrylic paint and gel pen.

Thursday 7 March 2013

66/365:2013 ATC promise of spring

66-365 ATC 2013 promise of spring

The sun heats so lovely, it's still cold in the shadows, but the sun promise that spring is on coming.

The card is a recycled test ATC I made back in 2008 for the artist group ZNE.

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Medium used: iridescent, alcohol based ink, gel pen, watercolour, stamp.

Norwegian: Solen varmer så deilig, det er fortsatt kaldt i skyggene, men løfte om at våren er på tur.
Kortet er et resirkulert test ATC jeg laget tilbake i 2008 for kunstnergruppen ZNE.



Wednesday 6 March 2013

65/365:2013 ATC migratory bird

65-365 ATC 2013

The first migratory birds are here. It is the Great Cormorant and the Northern Lapwing.

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Medium used: felt bird,colouring pencil, distress stains and gloss medium for the eye.

Tuesday 5 March 2013

64/365:2013 ATC traa

64-365 ATC 2013

The Norwegian word for thread is "trå". Made a little spool from some left over thread, about 1 meter of each colour.

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Medium used: thread, pattern paper, stamp and ink pad.


Monday 4 March 2013

63/365:2013 ATC Miss Beatnik

63-365 ATC 2013 Miss Beatnik
Just a little beatnik girl, trying on her more colourful jumper, in contrast to her sold black turtle-neck.

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Medium used: gesso, watercolour, and gel pen for a glossy heart.

Sunday 3 March 2013

62/365:2013 ATC button card

62-365 ATC 2013 button card

Was inspired by the old button cards, so I made ​​a tag and sewed on buttons.

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Medium used: buttons, paper and a bit ribbon.


Saturday 2 March 2013

61/365:2013 ATC Collage R

61-365 ATC 2013 Collage R
Collaging book paper, yellow and green scraps.

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Medium used: vintage paper, pattern paper and acrylic paint.



Friday 1 March 2013

60/365:2013 ATC brown haired freckled girl

60-365 ATC 2013 brown haired freckled girl

I like the quote from India Arie "When I look into the mirror and the only one there is me, every freckle on my face is where it's supposed to be." I find freckles charming don't you?

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Medium used: permanent marker and watercolour.


Thursday 28 February 2013

59/365:2013 ATC conversation b

59-365 ATC 2013 conversation b

Conversations follow rules of etiquette because conversations are social interactions, and therefore depend on social convention. Failure to adhere to these rules devolves, and eventually dissolves the conversation.

The Norwegian alphabets has an additional 3 letter to the English alphabet, we have the letters
æøå

This card is connected to card 58. The translation on the card would be: -"ABCDEFG" -"oh"

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Medium used: self made stamp, ink pad, acrylic paint and gel pen.






Wednesday 27 February 2013

58/365:2013 ATC conversation a

58-365 ATC 2013 conversation a

Conversations are interactive, because contributions to a conversation are response reactions to what has previously been said.

The Norwegian alphabets has an additional 3 letter to the English alphabet, we have the letters
æøå

This card is connected to card 59. The translation on the card would be: -"abcdefghi" -"what"

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Medium used: self made stamp, ink pad, acrylic paint and gel pen.



Tuesday 26 February 2013

57/365:2013 ATC with heart in throat

57-365 ATC 2013 with heart in throat

Norwegian proverb saying "med hjertet i halsen" meaning "with my heart in my throat"

That choking feeling in the throat when you feel nervous or frightened. It refers to the way you can sometimes feel tightness in the throat when you are terrified for something. It is different from having a lump in the throat which is a positive way of being almost moved to the point of tears.


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Medium used: acrylic paint and white pastel.

Monday 25 February 2013

56/365:2013 ATC violets are blue

56-365 ATC 2013 violets are blue
Come to think of the rhyme about roses and violets.

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Medium used: vinyl paint and pastel chalk.


Sunday 24 February 2013

55/365:2013 ATC Jon

55-365 2013 ATC Jon

Happy birthday, darling Jon! :D

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Medium used: watercolour.



Saturday 23 February 2013

54/365:2013 ATC redhead freckled girl

54-365 ATC 2013 redhead freckled girl

I came across the proverb “A girl without freckles is like a night without stars” it may be “A face without freckles is like a night without stars”.

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Medium used: permanent marker and watercolour.




Friday 22 February 2013

53/365:2013 ATC woven heart

53- 65 2013 ATC woven heart

The tradition of making woven harts accumulates at Christmas time, but I do find them charming all year.

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Medium used: alcohol based ink, paper, stamp, embossing powder and ink.



Thursday 21 February 2013

52/365:2013 ATC the astronomer

52 - 365 2013 ATC the astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as moons, planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies); the physics, chemistry, and evolution of such objects; and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth (such as supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic background radiation). A related but distinct subject, cosmology, is concerned with studying the universe as a whole.

-source Wikipedia



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Medium used: Distress Crackle Paint, alcohol ink and gel pen


Wednesday 20 February 2013

51/365:2013 ATC winter is coming

51-365 ATC 2013 winter is coming

Although the phrase winter is coming is made popular by George R.R. Martin amazing books, my thoughts goes to the still to come two months of winter that is still ahead. With over a meter of snow out side and more on the way I made a paper snowflake.

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Medium used: Paper, blue corrugated cardboard, stamp and staples.

Tuesday 19 February 2013

50/365:2013 ATC Liv

50-365 ATC 2013 Liv

I do not have many heroes / heroines. But one of the really big one is Liv Kyllingstad Godin.

I was lucky to have Liv working in the church where I grew up. She was there for a couple of years. One of the many stories she told me was how she met her husband. To be precise how he saw her for the first time. She was a missionary in Congo. She had been given the vaccine and was quite sick, but was driving home on a motorcycle. She was wearing a yellow blouse and yellow trousers. She did not feel well, yellow and green as she said. She remembered the day because she was sick, he remembered her as a yellow lightning bolt that came in full speed along the road.

Every time I see a young lady in yellow garments I think of Liv.

The girl is my self made stamp, original made for the 2011 diary project.

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Norwegian:
Jeg har ikke mange helter/heltinner. Men en av de virkelig store i mitt liv er Liv Kyllingstad Godin.

Jeg var heldig å få ha Liv et par år i menigheten der jeg vokste opp. En av de mange historiene hun fortalte meg var om hvordan hun møtte sin mann. For å være helt presis hvordan han så henne for første gang. Hun var misjonær i Kongo. Hun hadde vært å fått vaksine og var ganske dårlig, men skulle kjøre hjem på en motorsykkel. Hun hadde på seg gul bluse og gul bukse. Hun følte seg ikke vel, gul og grønn som hun sa. Hun husket dagen fordi hun var dårlig, han husket henne som et gult lyn som kom i full fart lags veien.

Hver gang jeg ser en ung dame i gule gavanter tenker jeg på Liv.

Jenta er et selv laget stempel fra 2011 dagbok prosjekt.


Medium used: stamp, ink pad, colouring pencil and green watercolours.







Monday 18 February 2013

49/365:2013 ATC may the luck grow

49-365 ATC 2013 may the luck grow

Not sure what would be the correct translation for the saying "måtte lykke gro som gresset bak do" but loosely translated would be "may the luck grow like the grass behind the loo".

In my old memory books(you know the book friends write nice things to each other when they are kids). I know we got this saying on a card for our wedding ours. Although most people no longer have an out door loo, there is still many who have out door loo at the cottage.

Illustration drawn with pastel over vinyl paint. Do you like my artwork? Would you like to swap? Read here how: http://ewian.blogspot.no/2012/12/atc-artist-trading-cards.html

Norwegian:
Ikke sikker på hva som vil være den rette oversettelsen til engelsk for ordtaket "måtte lykke gro som gresset bak do". I mine gamle minne bøker så fant jeg dette ordtaket vet også at vi fikk det på et kort til bryllupet vårt. Nå har de fleste i vårt land innlagt do, men der er fortsatt mange som har utedo på hytta.

Illustrasjon er tegnet med pastell over vinyl maling. Liker du mine illustrasjoner? Har du lyst å bytte? Les her hvordan: http://ewian.blogspot.no/2012/12/atc-artist-trading-cards.html

Sunday 17 February 2013

48/365:2013 ATC Pierette

48-365 ATC 2013 Pierette

In my childhood my mother sang about Pierrot, he would like to marry Pierette, but used so long time to find the right words.

The first verse is roughly translated as follows:
Pierrot said to the moon: "Light now white and clear, until I am finish writing this letter. It is Pierette I am writing to, she will be my wife if she wants"


Here you can listen to the melody: http://www.erlingmusic.dk/upl/26998/AuClairDe.mp3

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Medium used: White, black and a touch of red acrylic paint.

Saturday 16 February 2013

47/365:2013 ATC chrysanthemums

47-365 ATC 2013 chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums, are often called mums. The flowers are perennial flowering plants of the genus Chrysanthemum in the family Asteraceae, which are native to Asia and north-eastern Europe. Chrysanthemums are a genus of about 30 species of perennials that have become common in Norway.

Earlier consisted genus of even more species, but many have now been transferred to other plant genera.

The resist technique is similar to card nr.20 snowflake . But this time I drew random lines that were painted with red watercolour paint. Some areas were covered with gloss medium. After when they were dry, I put on several layers of distress ink.

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Medium used: distress ink(ink pad), watercolour, permanent marker and gloss medium.

Friday 15 February 2013

46/365:2013 ATC shh baby is sleeping

46-365 ATC 2013 shh baby is sleeping

Parents have been tiptoeing around their sleeping infants since time began. Whispering: “Shh, baby is sleeping''.

But it only works with the first-born, when it is simpler to control domestic noise levels.

A radio playing or household appliances humming away can actually help the baby sleep. Interestingly, the concept of generating noise for the sake of making infant sleep is the latest in nursery gadgetry.

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Medium used: watercolour, pencil and a gel pen.

Thursday 14 February 2013

45/365:2013 ATC happy Valentine's Day

45-365 ATC 2013 happy Valentine's Day
According to Legend from the 5th or 6th century, Saint Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. St.Valentine is said to have performed clandestine Christian weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry. The Roman Emperor Claudius II supposedly forbade this in order to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers.

In Norway, the day is not yet an established tradition. In recent years, commercial operators, retailers and postal service has invested millions to promote the day and make it important in Norway.

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Medium used: acrylic paint, promarkers(alcohol based ink markers) and colouring pencil.