Sinai part II

Foodie Photos here :)

My heart beats in the desert

Just returned from another week in the Sinai Desert. We stayed at Rock Sea, a camp hosted by Ricarda and Michael; the sweetest, most inspiring couple. An awesome week, with great company, snorkeling, yoga, laughing and star-gazing. And mountains. Oh boy, the mountains!
We drove up there again one afternoon, to sit in silence and watch the sun set. A part of me live in those mountains, and they live in me.
Thank you Christin, and all the sweet people I met and talked with last week. Thank you Sinai, with your own perception of time, your dust and warmth, and your kind bedouin people.

Rock Sea website

Christin Illeborg: Mindfulness Terapi & Yoga website

more photos tomorrow ...

On the verge

Don't you love this time of year - those few days - when the trees and bushes have only almost exploded into bright spring green? In a minute, but not quite yet, the streets will be covered in spring, and everybody will talk about Summer's coming. But for now, on the verge of this, we all just hold our breath ...


Inside, a new art journal is on the verge of becoming, with two and a half new pages.

The bill sheet was a gift from Susanne who attended our collage workshop in March :-) Thank you!

A pair of pigeons have made a family right outside our window, can you see her baby beneath her? And the scowling? For the record, I asked permission to take the picture. Of course ...

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Street artists' decorations in Paris night club Les Bains

April Art Journal, part XI

April Art Journal, part X

April Art Journal, part IX

Contemporary wall art in Design Society Denmark Cafe

Interrupting the art journal for a little news :-)

Earlier this week I made this contemporary wall art for the Danish Design Center. The center is re-opening on Wednesday as Design Society with new interior and new initiatives.

Working on the wall art has been a great design process, developing with Vibeke Linde-Strandby and Nille Juul-Sørensen. The wall is behind the cafe counter and is about people meeting, sharing, relating, benefitting from each others' minds, coming together to make design for a better life. I feel fortunate and grateful to be a small part of this :-)

On the two time-lapses below here you can see the silhouets and words in progress. Thank you, Radic for showing me the app :-) 

April Art Journal, part VIII

April Art Journal, part VII

 

April Art Journal, part VI

April Art Journal, part V

April Art Journal, part IV

April Art Journal, part III

Typography Daily

April Art Journal, part II

Another gorgeous workshopper from Saturday:
Finurlige Finesser
:-)

Inspired ...

I've been fiddleling with art journalling, but it's been quite a while. It was all the way back in 2008 that I made Dear Diary, and I have been trying, a couple of times since, to find my way back. With no such luck.

But last Saturday, during our workshop, one of our wonderful participants, Hanne, showed me her art journals, and I felt something inside me make a small click :-) Hannes books were absolutely gorgeous, and I don't know if it was the happiness of her colors or her delicious choice of imagery, or the fact that she'd made so many pages ...  I was utterly inspired!

After a good night's sleep, I got up Sunday morning, sat by my desk, and worked for 11 hours straight! Journalling through the better part of an old leporello Moleskine (Japanese Album). During this week I made the last couple of pages, finishing it today. At Tiger, I got new inexpensive notebooks, contemplating new art journals ;o)

(Hanne unfortunately doesn't have a blog, if she did, I'd definately be followin') :-)

More pages to follow
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Cocktail book illustrated by Poul Lange, out in October

Workshop #2

Så kommer der lidt flere billeder fra i lørdags:-) Der ligger allerede en stak hos både Pernille og på facebook i Collage Workshop gruppen, samt her og her. Men det kan bare heller ikke siges nok: TAK søde, skønne, inspirerende kursister! :-) Det var en fornøjelse.

Flere på holdet (og på det tidligere i marts) efterlyste en »2'er« for dem som har været på workshop hos os, og det har vi selvfølgelig taget til efterretning.

Efter sommerferien, med start i september, holder vi derfor 2 nye workshops, og et (eller flere, hvis der er tilslutning) MODUL 2 - workshops med skarp kant. Her er ingen teori, ikke så meget teknik, til gengæld vil vi gøre hvad vi kan for at trykke dig ud af din comfort-glitter-tube :-)

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Indtil da collager vi på livet løs :-) Hele søndagen sad jeg - inspireret til op over begge ører – og dimsede art journaling i en gammel Moleskine, jeg lægger billeder ud så snart jeg har fotograferet.

Flip-flop! Nu må foråret gerne komme så vi ka' ha' bare tæer :-)

Anita

Fællebordet
Shared stuff

Frokost
Lunch

Susan & Mette 

Lise & Helle

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Mettes blog: Finurlige finesser. Mettes Pinterest Boards

Susans blog: Nustiger-kunsten

Hannes Pinterest Boards
Helles blog

Workshop images from Saturday. Such a great day with sweet and inspiring people :) More images at Pernilles on Facebook in our Collage Workshop group, plus here og here. 
Workshoppers asked for a follow-up workshop, so this plus two new workshops are on their way, starting in September.
This Sunday I did some art journalling in an old Moleskine; I will post photos as soon as light permits me to shoot them :) Can't wait for spring to arrive, with tons of light, warm weather and bare feet :)

(Parenthesis)

Working. Listening to music (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis::Same Love). More music (i monster::Heaven). Seeing Tara Donovan on Louisiana. Watching Cloud Atlas (Loving it). Loving the Music (Cloud Atlas::Sextet). Reading the book, and loving this too. Savouring morning coffees (image below). And working some more. But not much blogging ...

What A Wonderful Workshop Day!

A huge thank you Rikke, Elsebeth, Mette, Susanne, Tina and Anne!
Today, Pernille and I had the pleasure of these ladies' wonderful, inspiring company on our very first Collage Workshop.

Here a few images from the day.

We also did a little "live-blogging" on fb ;-)

Thank you so much for all your efforts and beautiful creativity today! :-)

Next collage workshop will be on Saturday April 6th. It is fully booked, but we have a waiting list; should you be interested to put your name on this, you can send me an email here. Thank you :)

Poster design

Mindfulness teacher and yoga instructor Christin Illeborg is speaking about mindfulness and meditation in Sct Matthæus on Vesterbro, and here's the poster I made for them. 

The meditations are a collaboration between Christin and vicar Birgitte Kragh.

Building Goodie Bags

On Saturday Pernille and I met to fine tune Sunday's collage workshop, plan a bit ahead, and to make goodie bags for the workshoppers :-) Man, Pernille is awesome! Inspiring, funny and a super talented artist. If you haven't yet, check her work out here: blog. website. 

 ...lots of goody-goodies :)