Exhibalibur!

Long time no sign of life. Truth is that my summer job has been pretty much eating all my free time and energy, it's as simple as that. I'll have plenty of time to catch up with things later, now I'm just doing a quick update about my upcoming exhibition here in Finland (the second one this summer, actually, I've been meaning to post pics from the first one. . .). 

Anyway, you're welcome to pop in if you're interested, grand opening's tomorrow between 3 and 5 p.m. the exhibition will be going on until 9th September. The invitation above should give you all necessary information.

Still 15 days of work to go, and then I'm free (and rich, ´cept Roomie will recieve a lot of my hard earned cash as she's been paying the rent during summer. Then there's the tuition fees. . . It'll be a really quick money-bath, it seems.)

Poachers!

 After the museum visit in London ages ago I tried to draw coelacanths from memory. The finished painting below has a more correct anatomy.

 

Anyway, long time no blog. Been really really lazy. I'm back in Finland now, and there's no guarantees for any frequency in blogging. There's a couple of projects going on for me over the summer:

- thoroughly go through all the stuff and clean my old room at mom's place - it looks like a warzone. Really.

- get a job for the summer (in order to get money to pay rent during summer, and at least half of the tuition 

fee for next year would be ideal). I have an interview on Friday, wish me luck.

- watch Game of Thrones season 2

- create some sort of a script for my forest comic - helps me plan the length of the thing a little.

- creating a website would be nifty and helpful for the future

- maybe have another exhibition

- paint and draw

Well, that starts to look like enough things on the list for now. 

Here's some photos from our trip to a friend's place. First, we saw a bit of Sandwich, hometown of Lord Sandwich who invented the sandwich, since he enjoyed gambling and playing poker, so he wanted something he could eat with one hand, so he wouldn't need to interrupt his game whilst eating.

 

 

 

 It's not the size of the garden, it's what you manage to accomplish with what you got.

At the friend's place, we ate a really really nice lunch. The house was beautiful, and it was situated in the idyllic beauty of the English countryside. There were also dogs, and hens! Here's photographic evidence:

 

 

 

  Ta-daa!

 

And see, I managed to hold one without anyone 

freaking out or getting hurt in the situation!

 

Took a stroll and saw some baa baas.

We also got extremely fresh eggs with us as a parting gift. Our host recommended poaching them (boiling without the shell), and since we'd never tried it me and Roomie had to give it a shot:

 

 

At this point we were slightly surprised, because in the cookbook we looked up instructions from the poached eggs looked more like fried eggs,since the egg whites had spread, while our superfresh eggskept their shape.  When we tried with eggs from the supermarket theyspread out like in the book. Conclusion - freshness matters in poaching.

 

It was actually quite different from regular boiled eggs. The egg white had a wonderful, soft consistency. I really recommend trying - and try to get really fresh eggs too. It was very nice with regular eggs too, but the superfresh ones were amazing!


I think I have to eat some for lunch now. . .

Euro Neuro

Gotta say that the right country won the Eurovision yesterday, Sweden lives and breathes this contest and everything that has to do with it, and they are so happy now. Well, especially Christer Björkman:

 The show next year will be at least as spectacular as the above picture. I love you, Internet.

Anyway, the artist in me was completely enthralled by Turkey instead, they had a living boat built of bat-like dancers and a jolly sailor:

I mean, have you ever in your lives seen anything more beautiful than that? If you have, stop right now, you're lying to yourself. This is it, the pinnacle of visual aesthetics.

Whoooshooshooo

Hi, I'm still alive, there's just been a load of (positive) stuff going on, I have a ton of pictures of all kinds of events to post as soon as I can get them sorted. Over and out.


Longhaired roomie spread her wings and flew over to Norway today.

Foldcycle

Assessments are over, so now it's just about sitting and waiting for the results.

Yesterday I went and bought myself a bicycle! It's used, and has a downright dashing lilac colour, a basket and teeny-weeny wheels, because it's one of those foldable hi-tech coolcycles. The best bit is that I got it for £40, which isn't bad at all in my humble opinion. (Although the fact that the ringbellthingy fell off today because of a busted bolt is slightly unnerving, but that's what glue is for, right?)

So now me and Roomie (Longhaired Roomie isn't cool enough to even consider buying a bicycle, foolish little girl) can make cool cycling trips to all kinds of places, such as the ocean. There's even a bicycle route called The Crab and Winkle Way leading there. (I was going to say down, but mapwise, the closest ocean is actually ”up” from here.)

Today I made an epic bicycle journey to Lidl. 'Twas marvelous.

Breeze

 Phew, assessment deadline tomorrow, here's the foody pictures from Saturday:

Cheesecake with strawberry balsamic vinegar. . .

Today I'll have pizza for dinner in the studio with people from my group. Yeah!

Herc

Phew, been rather busy with scraping together stuff and tying together loose ends for the Studio assessment. Also, there's the artist's research. There are so many, especially when I start to include comic artists, animated films, computer games and so on into it. Basically everything that appeals and inspires me visually, plus a load of other artists that just have some connection with my practice anyway. Right now I've collected 85 artists/animated films/games/illustrators, and that's counting Studio Ghibli as just one!

We ate nice food with old, dusty wine (2004) yesterday, I'll try to get up some pictures tomorrow. 

We watched Disney's Hercules yesterday, haven't seen it in 15 years. It was in fabulous Kino Vaakuna, Lohja, Finland. It was rather scary back then.

Gotta love the chin though.