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This is the result of one of the projects we made before christmas last year. We were assigned to build a helmet out of airex, a completely new material to me. The helmet was suppose to have its origins in one of the civilizations that existed during the Bronze Age or the  Iron Age. I took inspiration from my own country, Sweden and the helmets that had been found in Uppland, on the eastern coast not far from Stockholm.

So finally the fox head I've been working on for some weeks are now finished. It ha been a long but interesting project where I've learned to work with some new materials. There are a few things that could have been improved, but overall I'm quite happy with how it turned out. 

Some weeks ago me and my classmates had a five day workshop together with Cecilia Iversen. Four very basic ”rooms” had been built in the schools studio and we got to transform them into scenes from different time periods. Me and a group of four other students where assigned to design a kitchen of a collective household from the 70s.

Below you can see our process.

What we started with...

 

Still working on my fox head alongside some other projects. Finally all the hair has been added, now it just needs some grooming...  

 

 

Some more pictures from the animal head project...

Adding latex to the mold...

 

We started this second term with a quick film-project where we worked in small groups of two or three people . Everything was supposed to be done in less than three days, which made it rather "quick and dirty".

The film was also meant to re-tell or interpret a part of the traditional children's story The Red Riding Hood. As you will see we went quite far from the original saga.

It was shot with a handheld smartphone and edited in Adobe Premiere Pro. Paper was the main material for the set and characters. 

 

 

This is a small wooden puppet I made for a film-project we finished just before christmas. The wood I used is linden treated with linseed oil. The decorations is painted with acrylics and the joints are joined together with copper colored wire.

The doll itself is around 30 cm tall. Total height, with the strings, is 60 cm.

 

 

This week we've started a new big project in school, we are going to create an animal head (fake of course). The final piece is to be molded in latex and covered with fur. The goal is to make it look as realistic as possible. As you can see in the photos, I've chosen to do a fox.

 First we sculpt the head in clay which later will be covered in plaster to create a mold for the latex.

Creating the base...

 

 

 

 

  

One more school project! The idea was to present a picture of a "kiosk" inspired by a chosen movie genre. It could either be a model or a digital creation but it had to have a photorealistic look to it. We were given very little time and almost to material to work with which made it a fun but stressful task.

I chose a classic gothic-horror look for my work and created my model mostly out of recycled material. It was photographed in a studio with a printed photograph placed behind it and a withered blueberry bush in the foreground. The fog was made out of natural wool. The photo was later edited in Photoshop.

I used different free textures for the surface of the model to create a feel of wood and tile. The background photo was borrowed from sacral-stock and the bottle of blood from ElaineSeleneStock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The season is over and I'm back in Sweden again ready for some summer! 

So how did it go with my challenge, to draw or paint something everyday?

I will be honest, I did not manage to create something everyday...but I ended up working a lot more with my art than I've done in a long time and also manage to get some university work samples and a commission done. Almost everyday until the end of the season I worked with pictures in one way or another.

So how did it feel? Some days it felt like a burden, like having to remember to pay a bill, or take out the garbage... But most days it was easy, because the more I did the more I wanted to do. Instead of having trouble coming up with something to draw I suddenly had a lot of possible pictures in my head. 

Overall it was a good idea and a good way of making myself get more creative and get things done! 

Here is a painting, made during my challenge, of Skogsrået, a creature or being found in Swedish folklore. She is a guardian of the forest and wild animals, helpful but also very dangerous and unpredictable. She is described to be very beautiful, but her back is hollow like a tree trunk and some tales says she has a fox tail. 

Painted with watercolors on paper, 21x29,7 cm.