Sunday Drawing 19th of July

"Little and BIG boys needs hugs as well!"
Text written by Alex Rosén





Published in the Dagbladet´s Sunday Magazine

Exhibition in Drøbak is over…

The Exhibtion in Avistegnernes Hus is over for this time. This time I showed work from the last few years in Dagbladet, mainly the Saturday ones - since the Sunday editorials are changing form in the paper. The selection was a mix of prints and original drawings in black ink.

Thanks a lot for all the help to Erik de la Forest and Vigdis Volden that runs the house for Follo Museum!

The Process…

I was asked to explain my process for a speak, but it was not used for that so I put the pictures I took here instead.



1: My brief was to illustrate Adam and Eve from the Bible. First I´m working really quikly on sketches and often I do quite of lot of writing - but this depend on the brief.

Quote:
"The Woman He punished by letting her give birth to her children in pain, and let her husband rule over her forever".



2: Starting up with the orginal first with pencil, trying to keep the rougness as best as I can. I´m using pen and black ink for the original line. Using pressure on the pen to get the uneven line.



3: My untidy desk never get better…hmm…that´s life. I got everything I need around me.



4: I scan in my drawings on high resolution and tiding it up in PhotoShop. I use the program FreeHand for the colours and I always use the Pantone colours for reference. I like the flat colour and the rough line - for a long time it was a bit of a mystery how I did my illustrations, and illustrations made with a computer are starting to be excepted now. But it is not long ago it wasn´t "the right way" - it´s good things changes.





5: Because I work as I do my work is ready for print and web I just export into the right format for the job. This was 3 x 3 meters wide and was shown on the Litteraturfestival on Lillehammer first and then at home of the Norwegian poet Herman Wildenvey.

Sunday Drawings for July…so far

About the good summer memories!!



About finding a car on internet - everything does not look like they do on the pictures!

P.S: I don´t know where this will take me - I´ll try not to judge myself to much and then just move on to the next image. The paper wanted me to play with new ways of working, but for the moment it probably is a bit all over the place.

Animation with Art in Schools Project

In May 2009 Drøbak Cinema I was one of the animators to get 8 year olds to understand more about animation, and they did VERY quickly! The workshops was with The Norwegian Arts in schools, Den Kulturelle Skolesekken.

Illustrations on Flickr

I have put lot´s of the editorial illustrations for the newspaper Dagbladet Saturday. The illustrations have short deadline, so I´m not always happy with the result. It is nice to see them together.

Portfolio on Flickr

Draw a Giraff!

Ole Helland made a bet with his friend and have now almost 5000 drawings of giraffes from all over the world. Here is my sons Didrik and Isaks drawings. There probably be more from my boys - hopefully with colour…

My friend, Jørgen, doesn't believe I can collect one million giraffes by 2011. I'm gonna prove him wrong, but I need your help. You can create your giraffe(s) in any way you like, but not on a computer. Why? So far I've got 4189 giraffes, so I need 995 811 more! And I have 555 days left to get them. Let's show Jørgen how amazing the internet is.

www.onemilliongiraffes.com

"Expressions" - poster and profil for exhibiton

"Expressions" - poster and profil for exhibiton in Drøbak, Norway.

New Sunday Drawing

"Sommerpuss"
(More to come when they have been printed in the Sunday Paper through the Summer.)

Velkommen til Portåsen 11. juni: Kulturkveld med illustrasjon og tegning

Kl. 17.30
Overrekkelse av Gudbrand Moe og Barbara Voglers Stipend 2009
i regi av Nedre Eiker kommune til en billedkunstner som har tilknyttning til kommunen.
Overrekkelse av stipendet på kr. 25 000 av Barbara Vogler og Nedre Eiker kulturkontors Elin Kjærvik Skomsøy til stipendvinneren Gunnlaug Moen Hembery.

Om vinneren:
Årets vinner er Gunnlaug Moen Hembery som er fra Steinberg og som jobber fast som avistegner i Dagbladet. Hun har
vært tilknyttet Dagbladet siden 2000. Det har blitt en rekke forskjellige illustrasjonsoppdrag og utstillinger gjennom årenes løp. Etter 10 år i England vente hun tilbake til Nedre Eiker i 2005 og har vært en aktiv i kunstmiljøet lokalt og nasjonalt.
Utstilling: Det stilles ut noen arbeider av Gunnlaug på låven under kulturdagene.

Kl. 18.30
Åpning av kunstutstilling til kunstner og tegner Hilde Diesen i fjøset
Tegninger fra boken "Hytteskogen"

Om utstillingen:
Hilde Diesen utga våren 2009, boken “Hytteskogen” på Aschehoug Forlag, gjennomillustrert med forfatterens tegninger. Illustrasjonene ble vist på Papirbredden i Drammen i forbindelse med lansering av boka, som har fått gode anmeldelser. I Fjøset på Portåsen, under Kulturdagene, viser hun 30-40 tegninger fra Hytteskogen. Ved utstillingsåpning onsdag 11. juni vil hun være til stede og fortelle og lese fra boka. Portåsens venner har laget et krus med Hilde Diesens tegning av Portåsen.
Det vil bli mulig å kjøpe både boken og kruset. Det blir et lite musikkinnslag og salg av kaffe med noe attåt.

Hjertlig velkommen til en trivelig kveld på Portåsen!
Arr. Stiftelsen Portåsen og Nedre Eiker kommune