Merry Christmas

Joyful tides. It's been a great year and I am looking forward to see what the next one brings. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Tomten och Rödhaken (The Tomte and European Robin), 

10x15 cm, Watercolor and Acryla Gouache

Caroleans

I've been working on a fairly small painting lately (17x28 cm / 6.7x11 in). It will later serve as a reference for a larger painting on the same subject.

Three Caroleans meet a Lady in White during late 17th century Sweden. 

Watercolor / Digital

The Caroleans (Swedish: Karoliner) were the soldiers of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII. 

Workshops and Cookie Monsters

Last weekend i attended the second Northern Light Workshop with Jesper Ejsing and Eva Widermann as instructors. The focus was on character design, so I took the opportunity to polish my ideas of a cookie monster for a children's tale I'm working on together with Therese Järvheden.

Trying to get the pose right before I do a larger sketch...

After making a larger sketch of the pose I want, I refine the image on a new piece of paper and start coloring. This day I wanted to try painting directly on a toned piece of paper.

Cookie Monster

Watercolor and Acryla Gouache on toned paper

Digital finish

I learned a ton during the process of this image and I had a lot of fun making it. I will have more to show you from the children's tale as it progresses!

Pictures courtesy of Dave Brasgalla (Thanks Dave!) If you want to see more from the workshop I recommend checking out the photostream over at Flickr.

Webshop

I am happy to announce that my webshop over at Etsy is now open!

I am starting up with a small stock of sketchbooks, but I will keep you updated whenever I put up something new. Next will be some prints from my project on Scandinavian Folklore. 

etsy.com/shop/DannieBorg

Book Fair 2012

Yesterday evening I got home from the final day at the Book Fair in Gothenburg. Thank you all who came by and made this a memorable experience! Below you'll find some pictures from the fair:

A lot of people came by my stand for prints, originals and nice conversations...

The right wall of my stand...

Back wall...

Left Wall...

 In between visits I was busy doing sketches and drawings. Unfortunately I didn't get the time to take photographs of them all before they were gone, but below are a few I really enjoyed doing:

Again, thank you to all who came by, I really appreciated all the positive feedback I got from you.

My Webshop should be open soon, so keep an eye out for the announcement on my blog. There you will find prints, books and occasionally originals. 

Sketchbook 2012

Just got the sketchbooks from the printing company, and it is looking good!

Sketchbook 2012
A5 (148mm x 210mm), 32 pages Full Color

 the sketchbooks will be sold at the Book Fair in Gothenburg (Sweden) september 27-30th.
If you are going, come visit me at Stand no: A04:29

Scandinavian folklore has always fascinated me, and living so close to nature I get my dose of inspiration every day. For this sketchbook I have focused on the little creature known as Tomte.

   

Sometimes they get to meet other scandinavian creatures up close...

The sketchbook will be available through my Etsy shop in october. I'm still setting it up, but expecting it to be live on october 1st.

Sketchbook and Book Fair

I am excited to say that I will be attending the Gothenburg Book Fair (Bokmässan i Göteborg) in September (27th-30th) this year. It is the first time I will be an exhibitor, so make sure to drop by! I will be doing some live drawings and my 2012 Sketchbook will make it's debut.

Here is a sneak peak from my 2012 Sketchbook.

A character study for a larger painting I am working on

Frog studies

Flying Amphibian

I will post more of the sketchbook as time goes. I plan to release the full sketchbook online in October.