Some small details from the new book that is on its way to the printer. Starting on a new story, and I can see the illustrations very clear inside my head. The problem is that the colors and the pencil lines do not look at all as if they came from my hand. Too bad.

I have been stumbling upon so many great artists on the web lately. Come, visit these people!

Violeta Lopiz

Valerio Vidali

Elaine Pamphilon

Micah Lidberg

A Zlatan Ibrahimović matchbox lights up the evenings at home. (Happy Birthday, Z, two days in arrears! Don´t hesitate to contact us if you need samples of great merchandising.)

Tattly, Designy Temporary Tattoos

Some of my spreads from a new book published by Bonnier Carlsen. Lilla barnkammarboken: Julsånger. On the radio this morning they said that in seven weeks we will be sweeping snow here in these parts of Sweden. Maybe time to start freshening up some Christmas songs? Other contributors in this anthology are Stina Wirsén, Jan Lööf, Anna Höglund och Maj Fagerberg, m fl.

Mina bidrag är illustrationer till sångerna Feliz Navidad, Vi äro musikanter och Ritsch, ratsch, filibom. Jag hade väldigt roligt när jag ritade! (Särskilt bilden till Vi äro... Jag har alltid tyckt att det är någonting riktigt mysko med vuxna som går i ring och spelar loss på osynliga musikinstrument.)

Jan Lööf på Göteborgs Konstmuseum. T o m 22 januari 2012.

A gray weather day, so far. Last week, on Friday, I finally sent away a picture book I have been working on for some time. (The book will be published by Rabén & Sjögren in early spring next year.) So now I have to do some cleaning up before starting working on new things. These (gray) images were found on my computer. First one shows the football team Mörtfors BK (pic borrowed from Carpe Cultura, photographer Emil Karlsson).

Justice & Police Museum Collection

The sowing that has made me most happy this season is the sowing of the aster (the three last photos). Love the colors, and they bloom for such a long time, outdoors and in their vase. (And they bloom now, when almost nothing else does!) These particular ones are called Princess (Callistephus chinensis).

Elephant life

David Roberts, illustrator

This gardening thing keeps escalating for every year. For an impatient person like me the garden is a reminder of that some things (many things!) need time. You can´t rush plants to grow. From the top: tree onion, artichoke, the newest growing beds invaded by pumpkin plants, nemesia, salvia, globe thistle. I always decide in advance what I want the gardening season to be like, and it always turns out absolutely differently. Differently, but in a good way.

Runåbergs Fröer skriver om höstsådd.
Narciss & Tulpan

New illustration for BRIS about child grooming and young people's risk behavior on the Internet.

BRIS idolkort. Från 1998 och framåt.

Back from the book fair in Gothenburg, where I had the honor to receive the Elsa Beskow plaquette. That was great, but even greater was the opportunity to meet so many nice persons! Too bad that many meetings were a bit short, though. And book fair atmosphere does not bring out the best in me, but a shifting gaze and a shrill voice...

Images above are 4 new portraits for BRIS, Children's Rights in Society. These will be used as vignettes in the BRIS magazine and in the BRIS annual reports, when quoting from authentic phone calls and when reporting about harsh reality cases.

Animals made for a book I´m working on. A ray, a platypus and a echidna.

Brunch at Mörtfors Pensionat some time ago. Looks nice, doesn´t it? So it was. I love large-scaled breakfasts that continues forever!

Paul Poiret dress, at FIDM Museum. (I did not wear this during the brunch, but how I wish I had had the opportunity.)

A blogpost about PP, Nothing Elegant and images here at flickr.

Also like this dress, Stefania by Dagmar.

Illustrations from latest issue (11/2011) of magazine Damernas Värld, an article about broken friendship.

Dress, Memory

Julia Selin

Stuff I Found (On My Desk), zine by Nick White

A very big tomato, a very small wasp's nest. Is this some kind of indication, some kind of sign? If so, what is going on with nature?

scientificillustration/tumblr
Wellcome Images, look at this beetle, the Dynastes hercules or this cholera safety suit!

Some new members of the Royal paper bag family, and at least one new house (among some older ones). Will try to paint a brand new royalty/servant/court member each day. I think the next one will be a court jester!

Jan von Holleben, ice age and white lakes.

Dunet önskar trevlig helg! VOV-VOV!
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Dunet wishes you a happy weekend!

Det är egentligen fantastiskt. Att det bara tar 24 timmar för en höna att producera ett nytt ägg! Först fångas äggcellen upp i hönans äggledartratt (20 minuter). Sen bildas äggvita runt gulan, som ju är den egentliga äggcellen (tre timmar) och därpå bildas skalet (under ca 20 timmar). En halvtimme efter det att hönan värpt börjar ett nytt ägg att bildas. Ostronskal behöver hönan äta för att äggskalet inte ska bli ömtåligt. Ungefär 200 ägg om året värper en höna i genomsnitt. Fast hos oss slutade Sylvia att värpa i slutet av sommaren. (Varför vet vi inte.) Och Elvis börjar inte lägga ägg förrän till våren, då vårljuset sätter fart på alla hönors värplust.
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It´s really amazing, that a hen produce an egg in 24 hours. And that an average hen warp about 200 eggs in a year.