more calendars

I was itching for my paints for the whole time I was in Germany.

Denise suggested that I sell my calendars. I might depending on how long my painting craving lasts. Noel already wants a calendar.

Here's the art from the second calendar (I painted on proper watercolour paper this time.):

let us continue

I seriously hate the post editor Blogger has. It's a damn pain in the ass trying to arrange photos. I was tempted to throw my laptop across the room trying to arrange the pictures in the previous post.

Anyways.

I have the last 6 months painted but the pictures are still on my camera and I don't have the cable with me at the present moment.

I actually decided to paint a calendar for my mom. This time using proper water colour paper. It was a bit thick to make a booklet like thing for the calendar bit so I'm gluing the paintings on a calendar booklet made out of regular printer paper. I've finished the paintings from January to August.

been busy but now there is time

With school and Yule, it's been a busy month.

I finally got some time and some will to do something creative. I've been painting like a mad man in the last couple of days. Fredrik was in Germany and I was feeling especially anti social.

This attempt to do some painting didn't get Ull's attention like last time. He tried to eat my brush, drink the brush water and lick the water colour blocks. Guess having Milo around distracted him from what I might be up to.

Anyways.

I saw this really nice and cute calendar by a Swedish artist, Sara Elgeholm at the sci-fi book store in Gamla Stan. I wanted to buy it but then I thought, why not make my own.

So I pulled out my water colours and folded some A4 paper to assemble my own calendar.

Obviously it was not the greatest idea to use water colour on regular paper.

Here are the first 6 months:

nothing... so much nothing...

My most sincere apologies for the lack of activities on this blog. I have simply not done very much at all. I don't really know what the matter is. I feel so bleh. :-P

I finished the secret project and mailed it off to my friends back in Canada. I hope they will be as delighted as I was when I finished it. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures because I was just in such a rush to pop them in a padded envelope and sent off.
I will reveal all secrets as soon as they receive the package.

Aside from the secret project, there has been no knitting, no crocheting, and no sewing of any sorts.

I did manage to get a storage solution towards my yarns. They no longer dwell inside cardboard boxes. I got these great plastic bins with lids from IKEA. I have even divide the yarns by content. I have 1 bin for wool, 1 for cotton and 1 for acrylic. There may be some spill over form the acrylic bin because I've got all those Bernat yarns from the knitting/crochet kits I got from No Frills.

I was thinking the other day that it's been a while since I last painted anything. But the problem is also due to the fact that I feel like I have nothing interesting to paint. I look at the most recent paintings that I did (back in autumn) and they all look like shit.

Perhaps I'm just in a rut. I'm not sure but at the present moment, I am not very productive at all.