Hazy yesterday morning.

Silhouette skirt

And the pillows made by Elisabeth!

Visby-details from this weekend. Now time for work. Mondays are fun days!

Two ink drawings made for two friends earlier. Playing with different materials is truly fun!

Artikel om Törnrosa i Västervikstidningen (11/11)

Found these flowers (snapdragon) in the greenhouse this morning. Still a little bit of summer left... A small children´s drawing, and the view from my worktable here at the office.

I have made a special pack of my cards for Little Paper Planes.

Found on the blog of LPP:

Simon Evans

Ruth Marten

How I adore the illustrations of Katja Spitzer! We made a swap the other day, and the parcel I received was full of beautiful things.

And from my mother I got the breadbaskets in the last pic. I bake a lot of bread, and these baskets spice up the baking. I promise.

Jäskorgar finns här, bl a:
Bagaren och kocken Sök på "jäskorg"
Hemmakocken

It is such a grey Friday here. Hope you´ll have a happy weekend!

Fika med Mia Öhrn

Serietävlingen, Kemi

I don´t think I have shown you these 3, or? They are not new, but they sum up many of the things I like when working. A theme is always fun to explore. Hair is very interesting! Working in a free way, without making a sketch first, is always thrilly. You take a deep breath, put the radio on, and you never know where the brushstrokes will lead you. And the coloured backgrounds is so much more fun to paint on, than scary white demanding paper sheets.

Spanish illustrators: Marta Antelo
Pablo Auladell

My days at the moment; researching for a new book and constantly forgetting cinnamon buns in the oven. A small glimpse of a book I have been working on for a long time. It is just on its way to the printer.

Knitted for newborns

Ett samtal med Elita, Sveriges Radio P1

Poster (Kalla Rätter/Cold Dishes) is in da shop!

Inuti mina bihålor. Inside my sinuses.

Näskanna.

Zonterapitofflor.

Morning in Mörtfors. Hope you had a nice one, too. Where you are.

Look at Emma Hanquist Illustration

And this solar panel bag!

A day at the office that many years ago was a dentist´s surgery. Top pic: Jakob works in the former waiting room. Pic 2: Monday meeting (we almost never have). Pic 3: I also love författare! Pic 4: A binder for Ritförlaget. The best thing about working with stuff for your own tiny publishing house is the freedom you feel when you have a space for your most personal ideas, and where they can bloom far away from the world of sales departments, shareholders and compromises. The most difficult is the reaching out-part and that channels like bookshops in cities and bookstores on the web are less and less interested in what the small publishers can offer. Pic 5: Lots of books. Pic 6: Ritförlaget is taking a walk. Royalty talk, maybe? Photo by Klara Schyberg.

It´s a big and very special day for Ritförlaget today. Jakob´s book is out! The book is the fourth in the history of my small publishing house Ritförlaget and the first book not made by me. Teckningar från Antarktis (Drawings from the Antarctic) is a wonderful illustrated journal from Jakob´s expedition to the South Pole in 2007/2008. The Swedish icebreaker Oden sailed to Antarctica for the second time ever and Jakob was on board thanks to the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat that since 1988 has offered artists to participate in research expeditions to the polar regions. (Read about the artists programme here!) Teckningar från Antarktis contains killer whales! Leopard seals! Tattoos! Stinking sperm whale bones! And of course; icebergs and penguins! 64 pages, colour, hard cover with textile backstrip. Text is in Swedish, but all the beautiful illustration makes the book interesting even without the words.

More about Teckningar från Antarktis in the webshop.

At the office; wish a sweet and pedantic autumn breeze would sweep by and clean the studio up, make some environmental changes and give me a photoshop lesson. I really, really would like to take command of the image management step in the book process. Learn how to make trustworthy scans of own illustrations for printing.
While waiting for that indoor breeze, I´m planting bulbs in the garden and amaryllis in pots.

En Photoshopkurs, någongång?

Någnting annat: kanske prova nya material, som det här?

Three small in-front-of-tv-drawings. Need programs like 2 and a half men when drawing. This does NOT work!

Salong För alla åldrar, svt Barnkanalen! Missa inte!

What I bought at Mieke Willems newly opened webshop. (Photos from the shop-site.)

Other nice things at:
Sarah Illenberger news
Laura Bellmont
Kiersten Essenpreis

A visit to a favourite neighbourhood café: Tofvehult. Another nice one is Affes café, Berga. Both places are open even after summer´s gone.

Two illustrations for BRIS, Children's Rights in Society. First pic, cover for the latest magazine, an issue about children growing up in alcoholic homes. Second pic is a earlier illustration about the problem with bullying in schools.

My (almost) daily walk, and I pass the stumps and the stable and the leaves on the trees are turning yellow.

Emma Rendel

Her Awkward Books