74/365:2013 ATC 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.

34/365:2013 ATC pearl necklaces

Jewellery is a form of personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets. With some exceptions, medical alert bracelets/military tag, jewellery stands out from other items of personal adornment in that it has no other purpose than to look appealing. Humans have been producing and wearing it for a long time. The oldest known jewellery is 100,000 year old beads made from Nassarius shells.

Although I love jewellery and preferably unique custom made ones, I do not make jewellery myself. Have a whole box, 16 liters, with beads and ephemera but have not the fascination or patience to create jewellery.

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Medium used: pen and acrylic paint.

3/365:2013 ATC little miss sunshine

With yesterdays blue card, I got playing with the yellows. Out of that came little miss sunshine. Although we actually do not have any sun here this time of year. We have polar nights. Due to the twilight effect is is not dark 24 hours a day, in the same way as it will be light some time before sunrise.

Polar Nights is a phenomenon that occurs in the winter, just north of the Arctic Circle(and south of the Antarctic Circle). For a while the sun is below the horizon, even when it is at its highest. This period is at its shortest near the Arctic circle and increases in duration closer to the poles. We will have the sun back around the 10th of January. On the upside the areas that have polar winter nights, will have midnight sun in an equivalent period in the summer.

Medium used: acrylic, pen and promarkers. The card is sprayed with varnish.

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Norwegian:
Med gårsdagens blå kort, fikk jeg i dag lekt med gule farger. Ut av dette kom lille frøken solstråle. Selv om vi faktisk ikke har noen solen her på denne tiden av året. Vi har mørketid. På grunn av skumrings effekten er det ikke mørk 24 timer i døgnet, på samme måte som det vil være lys litt før soloppgang.

Mørketiden er et fenomen som oppstår om vinteren, like nord for polarsirkelen (og sør for den sørlige polarsirkelen). For en stund solen er under horisonten, selv når den er på sitt høyeste. Denne perioden er på sitt korteste nær polarsirkelen og øker i varighet nærmere polene. Vi får sola tilbake rundt den 10. januar. På den posetive siden får de områdene som har polare vinternetter, midnattsol i et tilsvarende langt tidsrom om sommeren.

Art journal ideas - give away

If you didn't know, I do art journalling. I make a mark in my journal everyday. What comes down on the paper may vary. Some times I write words and thoughts , but for the most part it is some kind of illustration.

I have a box in my studio where I keep props and an old encyclopaedia. The props can be a piece of scrap paper with interesting colours and patterns, a piece of yarn or ribbon, a newspaper article, a found element with a great texture. All things that I use in my art journal in some way. I attach it to my pages or use it as a inspiration. The old encyclopaedia, I can cut out word that I like or just phase through it to find some interesting things I want to make an entry about. I have found a new and more study box, it use to be an ammunition box so it should hold up. I am going to decorate it, not sure how yet. It is a large box so there are room for a lot of ideas and props.

I know there are many ideas out there on the web, but I would like some input from the people that comes through here on my blog. I want input and ideas to my journalling. It can be a word you like or a suggestion to a prop/property, only your imagination sets the limit.

I am wondering can you give me an idea for a prop?

As a reward for you stopping up and writing a comment I'll give you a chance to win a prise! I am putting together an art journal parcel starting today with what you see below, each Friday through the summer I'll add something to the pot. I'll draw the winner on the 21 of August.

You are more than welcome to blog about this on your own blog, but it is not obligated!

To start of there is the journal and a pen.

The journal is a Canson sketchbook, see this blog post http://ewian.blogspot.com/2008/12/dream-journal.html for details and on how I compared it to other journals.

The pen is a Medallion drawing pen, permanent marker, colour black, size 0.1, one of my favourite pens as it is water proof, it don't only say that it is, it works! Here is a blog post http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/02/edm-8-organized-chaos.html where the pen was illustrated.

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12.06.09


Adding a box of neocolorII, watersoluble, 15 pieces.

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
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19.06.09


Adding Derwent charcoal pencils and watersoluble sketching pencils. I use these pencils alot when adding shadows. Read more at the blog post http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/06/adding-charcoal-and-watersoluble.html

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26.06.09

Adding compartment box. Read more at the blog post: http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/06/give-away-adding-compartment-box.html
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04.07.09

Adding two Formline brushes. See blog post for more info http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/07/give-away-adding-two-formline-brushes.html

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10.07.09

Adding 12 colour pencils to the give away pot. They are called Jumbo colour and comes from Faber-Castell. See blog post for more http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/07/give-away-adding-colouring-pencils.html

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17.07.09

Adding Winsor & Newton Cotman watercolours to the give away pot.
See blog post for more http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/07/give-away-adding-watercolours.html


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24.07.09

Adding pencils, eraser and sharpener to the give away pot.
See blog post for more http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/07/give-away-adding-pencils-eraser-and.html

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31.07.09

Adding glitter and sparkling stars to the give away pot.
See blog post for more http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/07/give-away-adding-some-sparkle.html

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07.08.09

I am adding vintage paper, pictures from 1946-54, printed in 1956. http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/08/give-away-adding-vintage-paper.html

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14.08.09


I am adding stickers. Read more on the blog post http://ewian.blogspot.com/2009/08/give-away-adding-stickers.html

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If the mail goes there I will send it to you, no matter where you are in the world! The postage is pretty much the same where ever you are.