Quick Animation Exercise

A couple of nights a week I do small motion exercises just to learn something new. Since from the start, learning how to make my illustrations move have for me been like magic. It's so much fun and I'm enjoying everything this learning process has to offer. These two gifs was an experiment not focusing on the design but to make something quick within the specific technique before moving on and trying another new technique. 

SuperSculpey modeling - first try

I recently started a new personal project with clay. I've heard so much about how amazing it is to model in SuperSculpey clay so I thought I'd try it out for the first time. It wasn't easy especially with all the little details I was working on and the clay had a sort of wax feeling to it. Not the same feeling as when working with pottery clay. The outcome before the painting turned out pretty good but the painting did not. Below is a couple of work in progress pictures and also how it turned out, half of it anyway. I think I'll repaint it in a matte white. 

World Of Motion - Project Europe

Time flies when you're having fun...

Wow, a month has passed since I last posted something here. 

This school is super intense, we get project after project while having personal goals of learning softwares as well. It gets a little stressed but then again i'm having loads of fun. I wonder how it'll feel around next June when I graduate..?

I have something to show you, some behind the scenes footage. 

Again, this is filmed with my iphone so not the best quality. 

We had our first project in smaller groups on the theme World Of Motion were each group had to research an continent. We talked and mailed people, studios and production companies from the industry around the world. Each group gathered the interviews into a presentation of their own choice. Some made the presentation entirely in live action, some in 2D, 3D, keynote. My group did a mix of stop motion and 2D. We built paper landscaped that presented different parts of Europe. Southern Europe, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Europe etc. 

Have a look of the behind the scenes:

We have our own "rest area". It was packed with people some hours after the presentation.

         

                           

               

Life as a student

So a new chapter in life has begun. 

I'm studying Motion Graphics design at Hyper Island here in Stockholm, full time for 1 year. 

Already 2 weeks have passed and I've come to understand and feel the intensity of this school. 

We've had some interesting lectures on digital media and much more. 

There's been a lot of challenges, individual and in small and larger groups. 

Lot's of time for reflection and a lot of fun energizers!

     We also have lots of fun! Excuse the awful mobile quality...

                                                     

/Carolina

In a zig zag haze

I hope you're not getting fed up with my zig zag patterns as I'm still madly in love with them myself especially in these color combos. Which color combinations are your favorites? 

It started with some test prints onto fabric.

These were the first pillow cases I printed and sewed only for myself but also as a try to develop it further..

And these are the latest pillow cases I've made, larger in size and slightly more work with patching the fabric bits together and with the closure of a zipper. BUT it was oh so worth it. 

And of course, my little helper aka. the muse was by my side as always when creating. 

Hope the new year is treating you good!

/Carolina

Dancing cameras

Happy Sunday!

/Carolina

Geometric Installation

My original complete illustrations together with my hand cut, handmade, 

geometric wall boxes.

I don't usually think "commercial" because that's just not my thing and this work for the exhibition was even more further away from that. I really took my time with the experimenting of these pieces and I'm so excited how they turned out. I can definitely imagine myself doing larger scale paintings of these. 

/Carolina

The opening / Exhibition day

So last Saturday was the big opening day for the exhibition. I had a blast with so many lovely visitors and friends joining us for the evening. We had more to celebrate as we found out the day before that we had received cultural support by the city of Stockholm's Culture Committee!! 

By us I mean the four of us who made the exhibition together: 

Malin Dammgård, Petra Eriksson, Daniela Yevenes Zagal 

and myself (Carolina Grönholm)

Things comes in threes. My "boxed" art paintings and paper lamps/mobiles. 

Side by side. My paper mobiles making beautiful shadows. Screenprinted fabric mobiles by the 3 other girls. 

I was photographed in front of my work by the ever so lovely and talented T from This Is Just To Say...

Some close-ups.

And the work before...The beginnings of "A excursion" and "Legs".

We decided that the theme for this exhibition was going to be the local surroundings of a part of Stockholm (Skarpnäck). We gathered information and material through the local library and went for excursions in the area. We observed and used patterns from the buildings and streets into our work. Made collage patterns of old maps of the area. Found abandoned tree houses and an old shut down airfield. Visited a skate park made as a project of the heart by a local guy. It was these bits and pieces we put together for the exhibition. 

För er som inte kunde komma på vernissage-dagen men fortfarande vill se utställningen så kommer allt att hänga kvar i Skarpnäcks Konsthall till den 17 Oktober. 

Wishing you a wonderful week!

/Carolina 

Work in progress/preparation

This is why I have been absent from posting lately...

I'm working with color pencils, photography, digital media and paper cutting.

The base is my favorite twig paper. 

The best part in this process is that I'm having incredible much fun! I'll post more of the proceedings till the day of the main event, promise!

///Carolina

Keeping myself busy with creative projects

Things are just the way it usually is - week filled with different projects such as printing, crocheting, drawing, baking and admiring Sau Paw. Oh and I did a little sewing and carving too! 

Below is the beginning of a hand printed tube scarf. 

Even though I've closed my shop with crocheted accessories, I still make things for myself and others when the urge settles in. This time I've started trying to make a granny square blanket out of left over yarn scraps. 

I'm a beginner when it comes to carving but I'm feeling determined to master it!

Look at this majestic creature of black furriness. Sunbathing is her favorite thing in the world. 

Mine is admiring her when sunbathing!

Creative week in pictures

I've started on a new landscape drawing onto beautiful kraft/fiber paper.

Continued on a old drawing of Sau Paw looking very stuck-up.

Bought a new silkscreen!

Back in the screen printing studio after a months absence, oh how I've missed it! 

Here's my hedgehogs ready to be heated.

Went on a 3 hours class to learn the dry point technique. It's basically a steel needle engraving. I did this on a thick plastic sheet and this is somewhat similar to engraving onto copper. I managed to do only 1 engraving in 3 hours and there was so many elements...felt very old school which I like but knowing that the engraving is only good for about 10-15 prints before the scratched surface has faded off is somewhat disappointing. But I had fun learning a new craft!

Have a great weekend!

/Carolina