Saturday, August 31, 2013

New Project!

Thank you for your input on the previous post. I value your opinion greatly.

So. While I am a-thinking about how and where, I want to share recent new project. Yup! Patch It Up—this crafter is cuttin'em squares and sewin'em back together!
The four top fabrics are from Garn-iture – a small yarn-barn/fabric store on Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen. A true gem.
Btw—do you know Frankie? It's a great mag with enough graphic yum-yum to make me pay a small fortune, but it was a great read too (which I consider quite the bonus ) -- I just fell for the layout! Happens all the time. Other bonus reads I bought for the covers: Jonathan Safran Foer, Philip Pullman and Tea Obreht. And we all know how those went. Mucho mucho Bonus.


Gotta go cut some squares now.

Listening to: Rebekka Karijord
Savouring the art of: Andrea D'Aquino
Looking forward to: meeting 12 Collage Artist next Saturday

Monday, August 19, 2013

Of Summer, and Thoughts on blogging





A perfect Summer vacation! No less. I hope your Summer has been just as wonderful, and that you've had time to enjoy time and loved ones.
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I haven't been posting much lately, not because I didn't find the time, but because I've been thinking ... Wondering—what it is that I'm doing here. I would like to start somewhere else:

We had a booth at the local flee market this Summer, and while we were selling our old stuff there, it struck me that the flee marked–»feel« had changed as opposed to previous years. Years ago, flee markets were special, you could make rare finds and bargains, but today, flee markets are everywhere, every weekend, Summer and Winter, good finds are rarer (and there are clothes everywhere).
Perhaps there are more sellers than buyers! 

I've been wondering if the same goes for blogging? If maybe, in the explosion of numbers of bloggers over the last couple of years, there are now more posters than readers? 
If I myself, have turned into more of a poster than a reader? (To be honest, I »read« Pinterest more than I read blogs!)

Time changes stuff. Stuff evolve. Shape into new shapes. 
I'm not opposed. Just considering how I fit into this. If I still fit. Or if it's time for me to change too ...

Thursday, July 4, 2013

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose


I tried to soak rose leaves in almond oil, but it didn't work! The oil started to smell funny after a few days. Too many bacteria, I guess...

So I lay the rest of the leaves out to dry, and now I have a small glass of pretty little dried rose leaves. To mix in a sugar scrub, maybe ...

Paper heaven :: Upon A Fold
Love :: Augusta Atla


Tuesday, July 2, 2013

New illustration

for Christin Illeborgs Mindfulness class here in Copenhagen in August. I cannot say enough wonderful things about Christin—she's an amazing teacher and a great inspiration!

♫ Angus & Julia Stone ·· Private Lawns. Loooove this track. Check out their website -- and more music ...much more music ...

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Abandoned


I used to play with the children who lived here ... a gazillion years ago. It was a small farm, with only about 15 animals. I remember those light brown, calm cows, and the milk running through a tube under the ceiling. I remember the smell and the sounds. Today, there was only whispers of time gone by.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Elderflower Adventure



This weekend we went to our favorite elderflower spot for this years' elderflower syrup batch. It is sitting in the fridge now, in a few days it will be ready to be bottled—some we will savour right away, some will stay in the freezer. Come winter, we will defrost and drink—hot or cold—and taste Summer all over again!
You can find the recipe at Clemmensen & Brok.

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Stamp



I have just spend the whole week looking at these stamps, trying one out from time to time :-) The box sits in my window, and I smile every time I pass by ...
In between, I've been working like crazy. Summer is upon us, and with it, the anticipation of vacation. We have much to do before we lock up for the holidays. Thankfully.
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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Flees

Pernille & I met this morning at the flee marked to see if we could find inspiration and collage candy for the up-coming workshop season. Here's one of the treasures we found! Wooden stamp blocks aren't the best for stamping on paper, but it is doable, especially if the paper is damp. But the motives are glorious, and if not to stamp with directly, you can always use the patterns as inspiration for carving rubber stamps.

We also found some great paper goods (paper greats ;-) and plastic trinkets, which are going to be for sale in the pop-up shops during our workshops.
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I've added a new board to Pinterest—with collages and Art Journals. The pinned collages previously lived in the board "Loveliness", but needed their own space to play :-)
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Collage Workshop – Der er rift om pladserne

Manner! Vi er overvældede og taknemmelige over den vældige interesse der er for efterårets Collage Workshops – alt imens tilmeldingerne tikker ind, forbereder og forfiner Pernille og jeg de nye tiltag, og vi glæder os som vanvittige til at give jer rammerne for en skøn dag i papir, stempler, garn, farver og dims!

Der er allerede mange glade damer, der har meldt sig til. Og her nedenfor kan du se hvordan fordelingen på de tre dage ser ud. Listen vil blive opdateret løbende.

Lørdag den 7. september holdet er booket Vil du på venteliste?
Lørdag den 28. september 5 ledige pladser tilbage 
Vil du tilmeldes?
Lørdag den 2. november
 holdet er booket Vil du på venteliste?

Har du lyst til læse Mettes, som var på workshop i foråret, blogindlæg om kurset? Så kan du se det her på hendes skønne blog Finurlige Finesser.

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Workshops are filling up! Pernille & I are greatfull and overwhelmed :-) And super excited. We can't wait to make these days great and inspiring for »our« workshoppers :-)

Happy Tuesday!

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Randoms on a rainy Sunday

Getting a new Coffee Owl ready to send to his new home tomorrow.

Love Oliver Jeffers' work. A little film about him here:


Oh! And Aimee made the cutes washi tape.

How was your day?

Friday, May 24, 2013

Collage Workshop - NYE HOLD TIL EFTERÅRET


Vi glæææder os! For ikke nok med, at træerne vifter lysegrønt om ørerne på os og klip-klapperne er blevet støvet af – vi kan også glæde os laaangt ind i sensommeren, når vi nu sender 3 nye collage-workshops i luften. 


Det var en kæmpe fornøjelse sidst. I aller-faller for Pernille og mig, men også for de fantastiske workshoppere, hvis man skal tro hvad de skrev til os efter kurset. (Du kan læse med herunder, hvis du har lyst til at se et udpluk :-))

Vi spurgte, om der var noget vi kunne gøre anderledes/ bedre/ mere eller mindre af, lyttede, saksede og savede. Derfor:


Kunne du finde på at samle en flosset lottokupon op fra gaden i Berlin? Hænger du ind­imellem ud i den lokale farvehandel, bare fordi deres farveprøver er så pæne? Har du begejstret råbt: ”Jaja, filmen var da meget god, men se noget lækkert papir denne her biografbillet er trykt på!?”
Så er du ligesom os. Vi elsker papir. Vi tilbeeeeder papir. Og perler, snor, karton, stof, garn, aviser, stempler, knapper, kapsler, tapetrester, gamle ugeblade, afrevne bogsider, spillekort og alt mulig andet, som alle andre smider ud.

Vi har i årevis samlet disse skatte sammen og sat dem sammen til collager – små kunstværker med deres helt egen historie.

Har du lyst til at lege med os? Have en hel dejlig dag i vores univers, hvor vi svælger i farver, papirer, strukturer og dingenoter?


Så skal du da med på vores collage-workshop!


NU MED:

MERE TID!!!
ENDNU FLERE TEKNIKKER!!!
MINI KOMPENDIE
med web-adresser,  insider-fif + råd til hvordan du kommer igang – og holder gejsten – hjemme.
POP-UP SHOP med unikke materialeposer, one-of-a-kind-collageelementer, papir, kort, transferpenne, designark o.m.a.

Vi giver dig:
• En hel dag fra 9.30-16.00, hvor du kan lege, klippe, klistre, rive og blive inspireret og holdt i ørerne af to grafiske designere. Og komme hjem med nye kunstværker, du selv har lavet.
• Masser af eksempler på, hvad vi og andre har lavet og har brugt collager til.
• Øvelser, opgaver og teknikker, og vores indspark til hvordan du skaber den smukkeste og mest personlige collage i din egen stil. Men uden at det ser ud som om, det er noget din 4-årige har lavet.
• Inspiration i form af materialer, smukke bøger og grafisk lir.
• Frokost, the og kaffe i dejlige, inspirerende lokaler.
• Dit helt eget collage-start-kit, som vi har sat sammen efter alle kunstens regler, samt et minikompendie med teknikker, fif og gode adresser.


Der vil derudover være mulighed for at købe masser af særlig indsamlet og sammensat collageguf og papir-gear på dagen.

Dato: 
Lørdag den 7. september
Lørdag den 28. september
Lørdag den 2. november
Sted: Dronningensgade 73B, 1., 1420 Kbh K.
Materialer: Du vil få udleveret et start-kit, og vi stiller desuden et lille udvalg til rådighed.

Derudover medbringer du selv din bedste skotøjsæske med papir, udklip og scraps, saks, lim og hvad du ellers har lyst til at benytte. Derefter samler du en lille bunke af skatte (ikke dine rigtig gode skatte, forstås), som du gerne vil donere til fællesbordet! Når alle (også de søde lærerinder, naturligvis) gør det, får vi et spændende bord med masser af ”nyt blod”. One womans trash, another womans treasure.
Send en mail til  pernille@illustrafil.dk eller  christine@christineclemmensen.dk og skriv hvilken af de tre dage, du gerne vil deltage.



Lidt om os:

Pernille Mühlbach er uddannet grafisk designer og illustrator fra Den Grafiske Højskole. Layouter og illustrerer undervisningsmaterialer, fagblade, bøger m.m. Blogger om illustration, kreative sysler og blogger på www.illustrafil.dk. Du kan se flere af Pernilles collager her.

Jeg selv er uddannet grafisk designer fra Den Grafiske Højskole og arbejder i dag freelance bl.a. med bøger, kataloger og magasiner. Forfatter til bogen ”Scraps – et kursus i små mirakler” som både er udkommet her i Danmark og på engelsk i USA og Canada. Du kan se flere af mine collager her og her.

– og læse om de tidligere workshops her.


Det sagde forårets kursister:
»(...) Fedt med jeres oplæg + de bundne opgaver der gjorde det nemmere at få hul på processen. (...)«

»(...) Meget kompetente og inspirerende damer (...)«

»Det eneste der manglede var mere tid :-) (...)«

»Superfed dag! (...)«

»(...) Jeres interesse i, at vi "får" noget med hjem = viden, teori, farver, teknikker. Opgaverne, maden
(...) og at der var så mange gode materialer«

»(...) Introduktionen fra jer til collage. Jeres åbne sind og villigheden til at dele inspiration og materialer. Dejligt miljø at være kreativ i, og super frokost. (...)«

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Pernille & I are launching new collage workshops in the fall.  – we had a blast during the first two ones in the Spring. Wou-hooo! :-)

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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.


more photos tomorrow ...

Friday, April 26, 2013

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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