After Easter Feelings

I don´t really like Eater Decorations
so I made my own ones to decorate my home with.
Here some pics from my home and things that
put me into spring mood.


I  just adore my deer clock I bought a few years back.
Makes me smile.

Eggs in middle. (my art)

Here it is still hanging...

The boy´s head. I love children...Hard not to love this little head.

A favourite corner in the flat.

 

I found a big brush that I simply stuck into some concrete...

...and added a little detail.

I collected seaweed and embedded an egg there. Safe!

I just had to go on with the egg-theme so I made a little group of eggs.

Three eggs in a row...Another idea. Keep together!

Hope you enjoyed!

//Kristiina

I hung Silja I this Sunday

Last time when I was at Siljaline,
between Sweden and Finland,
I saw this couple, totally devoted
to each other and their dancing.
I loved watching them.
Now I am into these dancing images
and I simply
can´t stop!

Have discovered fake aqautint which
is a great technique if you don´t have
enough equipment for the real one.
One needs an air-brush compressor, ink and
white tempera paint.

I tried this technique on my collages.
I had to make a few layers of lacquer until
I got the ink to get stuck onto the canvas.
I need to refine this technique a bit more but
here you see the result from my experiments.

//Kristiina
                                                                       More Sunday images at Inpirationsfabriken.

Silja I, sketch

Silja I, aquatint sketch on collage

Silja I, acrylics on aquatint and collage

So I hung Silja I this Sunday.

Reflections

My new workspace. My new pink lamp. My thoughts to you.

//Kristiina

Painting Openings. Mixed media. 30x40.

Take time to reflect on life.

Reflection. Detail from photo collage.

Pile up good memories.

Be alone and like it.

Take care of the loved ones and they will take care of you.

Angels. Photocollage and mixed media. 25x25.

reminder

Just came home from a trip to Finland.
It brought lots of memories to my
mind. Especially the ones about color
and smell.

One painting that really expresses
this is the one shown here.
-It´s a dragon fly.

I remember me being a little girl. I had just
arrived to our summer cottage in Finland.
It was a hot day and I went to down to the
sand road.
Suddenly a dragon fly appeared, flew really
close and I got scared- and I mean really scared.
I started running and I ran all over but
the dragon fly just followed me where ever I ran
so the more I ran it followed which got me
into a more intense feeling of panic.

This painting hangs above the stairs.
Some people see the forms and color and
after a while realize that there is a shape of some
kind of a fly. My daughter actually said that
she did not discover the fly until after a few days.
I guess this is what I want to accomplish-
the feeling of it being there but in a way not.

The question is.
Do I really want to see the dragon fly since I am
scared of it?

//Kristiina

The Dragon fly. Mixed media. 80x180.

Sunday Feelings

A few glances around
today

Sunday feelings

Hope you have a nice Sunday

I think I will


//Kristiina

My contribution to Sunday photo challenge at Fabriken!



My move from the studio meant paintings everywhere in my house.

The himmeli hanging I made of old books last year had to go somewhere so here it is.

My painting space at the moment is at my work which is an art class room, so here you see

some of my students´work. They are working with abstract and textures. They love that theme.

A sneaky peak on my work. I am going to shoot them today so I´ll show you more next time.

Curious about my daily life as artist and Creative Arts teacher. Check me out on instagram: kristiina_se
Hope to meet you there!

Sunday arr

My living room has been occupied
with half of my studio (since the big move)
and gee, I feel cramped and want to get
started with arranging a little space of my own.
There are a few other things to deal with first so
my studio space has to wait a little.

In the meanwhile I thought to make some
arrangements with a few paintings so I´d
not lose the creativeness.

So this is my contribution to
photo challenge Sunday image at Fabriken.

Enjoy Sunday!
//Kristiina


Just playing around with composition a little.
Here´s the painting "Same but Different", 50x100, mixed media and the little painting is "Girl with Apple", 15x15, screen print.

A little detail here is the sculpture I bought from one of my former art students. I just love it! By the way, she is one of the duo who made Loreen´s dress to the Eurovision Contest this year.

for breakfast

Reading the morning paper I
am
having this for breakfast...

Thoughts about...


//Kristiina


Photochallenge at ingenvanligdag.

(My Instagram photos from: kristiina_se)

My home never looks this tidy...I think this is just a dream.

Walks down the sea...

Projects at my cottage...

I want to do more garden sculptures...

DIY´s...

My studio...my love...

Collages for a store...

Work piling up?

Soon, very soon I am back to work as art educator...Here my students´ work...

I work in this lovely house....

Creative space- my office!

Love spending time with my kiddies...

And the love of my life- the bearded man...

We´ve got loads of fun...

At times I need to rewind and see some creativeness around me...

Or just some fun things!

Or just walk around in beautiful surroundings.

But most of the time I want full speed forward!

This is what I am having for breakfast.

inherited

I know I know...
I have this branch on my wall.
You could say it is just a branch
or a piece of drift wood. But the
thing is that this one is a particular
kind of piece of wood because it comes
from a very very special place, a place
close
to my heart.
It is a place where I was quite  a lot
when I was a child. A place where my parents
originally come from and a place far far away
but I
still keep
close
to my heart.
So this branch becomes some kind of
symbol or a treasured object from this
place and it also has great value to me.
It symbolizes my heritage, my origin and
I am very proud of it.

//Kristiina

Branch from Irni lake, Finland.
Photo challenge at ingenvanligdag.

homey feeling

Yep
home is the best if
you ask me
at least when I am a
bit tired and exhausted.
so another day off from
all hard work with the
repainting down the
cottage.
I am just going to enjoy
the day, see a couple of
good friends and above all,
rest.

//Kristiina

Girl With Apple. 15x15. Screen print.

Girl Waiting. 50x70. Mixed media.

Girl Waiting. Detail.

Girl Waiting. A little try to make a banner to my blog.

Another girl waiting. It´s me!