Give away - adding colouring pencils

Adding 12 colour pencils to the give away pot. They are called Jumbo colour and comes from Faber-Castell. Colouring pencils are easy to use and they are grate for details. I use them most to write and to lay down layers there is a lot of fun things to do with them, writing this I just realise I have just one post where I use colouring pencils http://ewian.blogspot.com/2008/11/edm-6-favorite-well-loved-object.html

The box
I have painted the inside white and started collaging some bits to it. There is a map from my childhood, Europa has changed a lot sins then. A loveletter from my housebound(way back when he was in the army). A letter from the mission in Africa, childhood memory form my Nana sent fabric to help women and there new born baby's. Some harts cut out from a lexicon.


I am looking for ideas and props to my art journal box. Do you have one? Share as many as you like. You need to go to this blog post to share your idea and to enter the give away. http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/06/art-journal-ideas-give-away.html

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Give away - adding two Formline brushes

Adding two brushes, they are of the brand Formline and is one of the good brushes for watercolour and acrylic. They are size 2 and 4 round type. In addition to the 2 and 4 I am giving away I have a 8, I use these alot, they give a good flow and even colour distribution. I have tried to get hold of more sizes but I only get a hold of these. I am adding them to the give away pot.

I am looking for ideas and props to my art journal box. Do you have one? Share as many as you like. You need to go to this blog post to share your idea and to enter the give away. http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/06/art-journal-ideas-give-away.html

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IF - worn

Her hair was worn so she cut it off.

The word for Illustration Friday is worn. I recently cut my hair 40 cm! How long is your hair? I still have 60 cm left so it is not as short as my illustration.

Medium used: Derwent watersoluble wax pastel and pencil.

Give away - adding compartment box

I use compartment boxes to store and sort my art supply. They are grate to have your supply in when travelling or just bringing your art supply with you out side. I often use the lid as a pallet, both for watercolour and acrylic. This transparent box has four main compartment you can section it of so you get forty small compartment. This series from Clas Ohlson is one of my favourite!

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IF - drifting

My cat has discovered the lilac-tree. He spent hours under the tree even turn down fresh boiled coalfish which is one of his favourite fish. The illustration Friday word this week was drifting. My cat sure looked like he was drifting in to a world of his own.

Medium used: wax pastel, watersoluble wax pastel, and permanent marker.

Adding charcoal and watersoluble sketching pencils

Adding Derwent charcoal pencils and watersoluble sketching pencils. I use these pencils alot when adding shadows.

Derwent watersoluble sketching pencils
These pencils have are grate both to wet and dry sketching. Water make them ideal for washes. You get three pencils in the wash strengths HB light wash, 4B medium wash and 8B dark wash.

Derwent charcoal pencils
I prefer home made charcoal sticks but these are grate when you are bringing then with you, no mess in your bag. The pencils gives you good control they apply evenly. Natural charcoal particles are mixed with clays to produce a rich, smoothly textured pencil with all the character of traditional charcoal. You get two charcoal pencils in medium and dark grades.

I am looking for ideas and props to my art journal box. Do you have one? Share as many as you like. You need to go to this blog post to share your idea and to enter the give away. http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/06/art-journal-ideas-give-away.html

Prop box up date. I have finally decided what to do with the box. I am adding words that represent me and things that is important to me. I have some lovely vintage paper that I am adding colour to and collaging on there too.

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Your comments feed my blog

I have started to enjoy the blogging. I was very unsure starting out, would I find things to share? What should I share? Would I be able to keep it up? Would my English vocabulary keep up? How much time would it consume? I still have a lot of questions like do I share unfinished project? I do a lot of creative work but for the most part I only share sketches/paintings/illustration. Can I find good ways to share other things? How can I include other blogs and bloggers?

I see that when I get feedback on things I share it encourage me and it gives me desire to share and blog more. I would like to say a big thank you to all that gives feed back! Thanks for feeding my blog!

My illustration is dedicated to you! If you look closely on the fish you can see that it is made of words it is "hi" in different kind of languishes.

Medium used: ink, pencil, watercolour pencil, ink pencil, watersoluble wax pastel and permanent marker.

Art journal - playing dirty

I got this mail where the subject was "Monika and Cindy, Playing dirty" Silly me thinking it was something related to children's play. This mail was the start of a long row of spam. For years my mail address have been flying under the spam radar. I realise I have been lucky. There is now more than 200 mail a day that is marked with spam, sadly some mail that is not spam also comes in my spam folder so I have to go through the spam folder to check that it is correct. No, I don't open the mails I just skim the headlines and the sender.

I have started the new job and guess what they are playing dirty there... Or at least they play in the dirt, it has been raining for a couple of days an the children are loving the puddles. They make beautiful mud-cakes.

Medium used: watercolour pencil, watersoluble wax pastel and permanent marker.

Adding a box of neocolorII

Adding a box of neocolorII, watersoluble, 15 pieces, to the big ART JOURNAL GIVE AWAY

I am looking for ideas for a prop to my journal box. Do you have one? Share as many as you like. You need to go to this blog post to share your idea and to enter the give away. http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/06/art-journal-ideas-give-away.html

I use watersoluble crayons when I want to lay down a colour for a background or a under painting. I use them on paper, wood and fabric. They are also grate when you travel and only can do journalling a little bit at the time.

You can see here some of the blog posts where I have used watersoluble wax pastels. http://ewian.blogspot.com/search/label/Watersoluble%20wax%20pastel

No update on my prop box, have not been home this past week. Hopefully till next Friday I 'll have something to show you on the prop box.

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Art journal - June cat.

This is my last trip to school, just one more exam. To come there I have to drive 450 km. On my route there are 16 tunnels. This became my inspiration for this art journal entry. Alto the only animal I meet in the tunnels was sheep's, I decided to go for a cat. I find that cats are always majestic. Even when they comes out from a tube or a tunnel

Medium used: 3B pencil and Derwent watersoluble wax pastel.