63/365:2013 ATC 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.

57/365:2013 ATC 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.

53/365:2013 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.

51/365:2013 ATC 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.

43/365:2013 ATC ribbon heart

One of the really superb experience with making Artist Trading Cards is that you can find and use the remnants of old projects. In this card I used up what I had of red ribbons.

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Medium used: ribbons, vintage paper and an ink pad.

41/365:2013 ATC happy Mother's Day

Mother's Day is an honorary day for mothers. In Norway we celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in February.

The first Norwegian Mother's Day was celebrated in Bergen 9 February 1919. The day is usually celebrated as a family, where mothers are waiter on with tea or coffee in bed in the morning, flowers, cake and a home made card. Yes, I call my mother by name or mamma.

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Medium used: Promarkers(alcohol based ink markers), permanent marker and Glossy Accents(gloss medium) for the little heart.

38/365:2013 ATC resist me

Played with a resist technique, where the resist is a gel pen. Used a glass Sakura gel pen. Traced over with a permanent marker. Painted with watercolour to get the effect.

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Medium used: gel pen, permanent marker, heart sticker and watercolour.

36/365:2013 ATC just you and I

For this card I recycled a tag that never got claimed. I just cut it to the standard ATC size, 64 x 89 mm (2.5 by 3.5 inch), changed the colours and added some new text.

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Medium used: embossing, stamp, vintage paper, watercolour, ink, ink pad, rub on and white gel pen.

35/365: 2013 ATC Love can not be concealed

 

Norwegian proverb says: Love and a cough can not be concealed.

The tag say Kjærlighet a Norwegian word for love.

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Medium used: watercolour, acrylic paint, ink, charcoal, staple and a tag.

33/365:2013 ATC looking for love

Are you looking for love or have you already found it?

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Medium used: stamp, acrylic glaze, gesso and embossing.

32/365:2013 ATC loves me

Reserved for Rakel
Sometimes kids dress up in clothing that are not there own. It maybe a sisters T-shirt or mother's shoes.

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Medium used: watercolour.

February postcard swap

I joined up with a postcard swap at iHanna. My motive is a February winter night. Do you see the pail northern light dancing over the sky?

I started up with watercolour, thin layers upon each other. Wanted to get a little northern light effect. Then came the houses in a mix of watercolour and acrylic, with the iridescent snow. A touch of snow in the sky and finally an embossed heart to guide you through the night. So much fun to make.

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.

The 2009 Christmas postcards

The cards arrived form print today. I was worried that I had to buy store made cards or not send any at all. But now the card are here, now I just have to writ them all. I have already started. I must say there is alot of just Merry Christmas and not all the personal stuff I usually squish in to the little writing spot on the cards. All of the cards that is going abroad probably will not make it there until new year. Do you want one of these cards? I'll send out five, so that the first five that reply to this blog post AND mail me (ewianblog (at) gmailDOTcom) there snail mail address will get one in the mail, brought to you by the nice mail man. I usually write about 100 Christmas postcards, and then I am not counting cards which I send as email. How many cards do you send?

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Advent calendar

Look at our wonderful advent calendar! The Norwegian tradition is to have an advent calender and do the count down to Christmas eve, 24 days. Christmas eve is the day we open our presents and celebrate the birth of Jesus. Our calendar is for the whole family, the children have there own in addition to this.

The calendar hearts was made by Zack and me. It was so much fun doing this together! On the backside of the hearts it is an activity for the whole family to do this day. December is a busy time for our family and the activity is to get a little fun time together. Doing things with people you love is our favourite thing to do in the whole world.

Here is what the hearts says:

1 - Give the family a hug and play your favourite Christmas song.

2 - Play a game of UNO.

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4 - Call someone you love.

5 - Writhe and send postcards

6 - Make a list of at least 10 things you are grateful of.

7 - Make Christmas cozy for Boris, our cat.

8 - Make dessert for tomorrow.

9 - Make one big Christmas picture.

10 - Play a game of "ticket to ride" - Nordic addition

11 - Learn a new Christmas song and sing all the ones youknow, sing all that your heart
desire.

12 - Bake "lussekatter"- translates to Lucia’s Cats, sweet-buns.

13 - Give the neighbours "lussekatter" and sing the song of St.Lucia

14 - Hang titmouse-buns, made of fat and seeds AND the "julenek" Christmas sheaf, of oats, hung out for the birds to feed on.

15 - Read the book: "Carpenter Andersen and Santa" also known as "Christmas Eve at Santa's" by Alf Prøysen

16 - Find at least 10 things/toys to give away to the jumble marked.

17 - Watch a Christmas film.

18 - The children tell and show pictures from Tallin

19 - Time to get the Christmas tree, shower it and decorate it.

20 - Read about the birth of Jesus.

21 - Try a new recipe for dinner.

22 - Take a drive in the neighbourhood and look at the Christmas decorations.

23 - Read the book about "the district that forgot that it was Christmas".

24 - Make a family Christmas breakfast.

Art journal - my favourite flower

My favourite flower is "løytnantshjerter" translated meening the "lieutenant hearts". In English it is known as the "bleeding heart", in Latin it is "dicentra spectabilis".

The flower is perennial, meaning it survives the winter and blooms every year. We have been moving a lot and I had keep my bleeding heart in a urn taking it with me where ever we have lived. We now go our own home and this summer I hope to find a place where I can plant the hearts permanently. First it did not look like they survived the winter being in a urn can be though for the flower. I was very sad because it is really hard to get hold of these bleeding hearts. Today when I was outside doing some gardening I noticed that my hearts had survived after all. I am so glad. I wish I had more of these wonderful hearts, but I only have this one plant. I have the one that is pink/magenta.

Of course my journal entry for the day had to be the bleeding hearts. In my flower there is a girl sleeping, for me she represent the flower sleeping through the winter.

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

Heart - anatomic illustrations

I keep doing these anatomic drawings/ painting/ illustration no apparent reasons. I have always been fascinated by the large anatomic illustrations that was used in the classroom to explain how things work. My illustration is no where near the complexity of the wall charts but it shows the heart and the larger veins, purple for the oxygen poor blood and deep red for the oxygen rich veins.

Medium used: watercolour and sharpie.