Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who came to me and my sisters exhibition "Between Sisters"

during these past three weeks!

It went really good with a couple of paintings sold and I'm looking forward to do more design together with Nancy. We talked about making some new work within this theme even before the exhibition was happening, developing it with new drawings and have another exhibition together later on. 

Here are some of the drawings:

And these two are some of my favorites by my sister. They got sold!

Wishing you a great Sunday!

/Carolina

Exhibitions!

Last week was exhibition week for me. Apart from the exhibition with my sister "Between Sisters", my class had a 3 weeks project with an end result of an big exhibition. 

Pictures and videos from the events below.

"Systrar emellan" - Finns att se på Skarpnäck's Kulturhus fram till den 12e November.

The entire wall with our paintings the night before opening.

From the opening day. Me and my sister Nancy! Click here to see her blog.

The night before preparing the paintings.

 Our school group project had the theme "Distortional Evolution". We chose to project our animations and videos onto three frames hanging on the wall in our cozy living room we set up for the night of the event. This was a three weeks project which ended with an 6 hour exhibition. Overall we were 2 classes with over 100 students sharing a big space with different rooms.  

This is one of three 15 sec animations I did from an drawing and it's one of the first things I did in Adobe AE, but working on something new!

Experimenting filming an octopus arm was different...

One of the other short clips I did had a city shown in day light vs nigh light and turning into an destroyed darkened city. I was working in Illustrator and After Affects for this one. 

Work In Progress

Sketches with graphite pen, ink and Illustrator. All for the exhibition in October - can't wait to show you the whole drawings! 

And a photo of my hair - work in progress. 

Thanks to everyone who's following and reading my posts!

 I will be studying Motion Graphics here in Stockholm for a year starting from tomorrow (wohoo!!) and I may or may not be distant here on my blog. I will however post instant pics of work and happenings over at Instagram: http://instagram.com/carolinagronholm and probably here too! 

Stay safe stay lovely, always!

/Carolina

WIP: Between sisters

I'm working on a new drawing for the upcoming exhibition I'm having with my sister this fall. This is a work in progress, digital drawing from a photo I took earlier this month when visiting my family. See previous post if you're curious!

While mommy is working, baby is sunbathing.

Photo of the day:

Wishing you a great midsummer's eve!

/Carolina

Hola España!

I took a week off and went to sunny Spain.

Went on beach walks with my mom... 

...on afternoon strolls overlooking the ocean from the dunes...

...through the pine forest with it's heavenly scent.

Started on the 3rd book by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, (thrilling!)

Made friends with adorable Felix and Messi, love!

Made fun plans with my sister about our coming exhibition together, on swedish below.

See more in an earlier post here.

Utställningen kommer att äga rum i Skarpnäcks kulturhus den 19 oktober - 12 november. Mer info finns här.

/Carolina

Exhibition work in progress - Between sisters

Great news, my sister and I will have an exhibition together this fall so we're in the stages of producing: 

The theme is sisterhood. Our relationship as sisters, as artisans, youth and adulthood. 

Stockholm Etsy Christmas market 2012

So the Christmas market was this last tuesday as you may know from earlier posts.

 I had so much fun organizing the event with the 2 other girls to begin with and the outcome was everything we had hoped for. It was great meeting other Etsy sellers, and it went really good sale wise as well. 

Here's some pics of the event:

My table set up! 

The standing rack for the clothing accessories in the back is actually an old wooden frame for holding up an oil canvas. I put some legs to hold it up and painted it with coral red paint and voila!

An old hat box for my screen printed shirts and bags.

Jewelry display was made of an old Ikea frame and was painted with the same coral red. 

I made lots of new brooches and necklaces that will be up in shop soon. And new card sets as well! 

They sold quite well during the day. 

The place itself was great for us but I do think next time we're probably going to need a bigger place as there were more sellers interested that wouldn't fit within that space.

Raquel from Deco Tape Paradise was my lovely table neighbor. She sells as the name reveals tape in all sorts, very kawaii and I bought some of course. Can't get enough of washi tape! 

We got a visit from Mark of Etsy Inc New York who brought us some cool stuff from the headquarters.

My favorite Etsy sticker!

And here I am in action with ghost hands and a smirky face at my table.

New necklaces to be added to the shops, I hope you like them as much as I enjoyed making them. 

Wishing you a great Christmas holiday! 

/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