A Hyper Island Student Project

Here's the whole animation my group did for the Hyper Island school project "Human Billboard".

 Our client was Oliver & Eva and our theme was fetishism, we chose to portrait one of the most common ones:

We got the chance to show our animation short movies at a the best commercial spot in Stockholm, on the big screen at Stureplan. We were 8 teams who produced 8 different short movies and themes of sexual minorities. 

A Day In Photos - Went Sailing!

My summer couldn't have started better. Last Saturday we had an amazing day on a old steamboat with friends out in the archipelago. There's really nothing like this to remind you of the beauty we're surrounded by here in Stockholm.  

The evening passed to a bright nordic night and we strolled the streets of the Old Town. 

I was totally surprised by this wonderful sailing event! This means I can check off the sailing in my list of to do this summer. It seems I'm off on a good start this summer.

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

Winter Wonderland + New Cards

First real snow came yesterday and this is how incredible everything looked like covered under the snow.

It's cold but I don't mind, not when it looks like this outside! And everything lights up! Believe me, it's most necessary these winter months up north. 

These pretty wood houses in my neighborhood looks even more pretty under a snow blanket.

 Looks almost fairy tale like, don't you think? 

My snow fox illustration is now available as cards.

And so is Papa Hedgehog!

This little illustration "Cat On Cushions" is one of my most popular print in shop and are now available as cards, colored ones! 

Wishing you a great winter weekend!

/Carolina

Christmas Fair - Etsy STHLM

Yup, the Stockholm ETSY team is having their first christmas fair! 

It's all very exciting and we also have a great venue downtown at Mariatorget. 

I got the chance to do the official poster for the event:

 Facebook-eventet med mer information mm. finns HÄR.

Vår hemsida med utställare och blogg hittar du på Designmarknadstockholm.com

Starting from today till monday 23-26 november I'm having a weekend sale over at my ETSY shop:

Wishing you a great weekend

/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 

Exhibition Poster

On the 15th of September I will be in a exhibition together with 3 excellent Swedish artists and friends. 

We have been preparing this event during the summer and I gladly took on the fun part of making the exhibition poster. (I know the irony of the title haha but directly from Swedish the title is "End Station" :) )

Med start från den 15e september kommer jag vara med i en utställning tillsammans med 3 fantastiska och talangfulla vänner. Vi har planerat för utställningen under sommaren och jag tog självklart på mig det roliga uppdraget att göra utställningsaffischen. 

Ni som bor i Stockholmsområdet är varmt välkomna på vernissage lördag den 15e september! Jag kommer att visa nytt, skapat endast för utställningen.Vi ställer ut i konsthallen i Skarpnäck. Vårt "event" finns på facebook med kanske lite mer info så det är bara att tacka ja! Kopiera och klistra in:

https://www.facebook.com/events/452326188141192/

Totes!

 I'm thrilled to show you my latest screen printed work on totes! Based on my illustrations Sunday Morning Walk and The Hedgehog.

Each is screen printed by hand (me!) with water based ink on ECO sustainable cotton totes.

These will be for sale at Saturday's christmas market here in Stockholm and some will turn up in the shop.

Dessa kommer jag att ha med mig på lördagens julmarknad på Basar Under i Skrapan. 

Och inte bara dessa "one of a kind" kassar utan även HELT nya smycken och pappersprodukter!

Kul ska det bli! och jag hoppas att vi ses!

/Carolina

On a creative day

I draw, design and enjoy life. 

This day I've finished a new drawing and continued on another one.

(Landscape in black & white ink on fiber paper. Cat sketch drawn with graphite pencil) 

I re-discovered some of my necklaces I did earlier this summer and thinking about listing them in the shop.

(Mini illustration on strong plastic)

As from last weekend I've not been on any bus or train. I ride my bicycle everywhere. Today my orange bike took me all the way across Stockholm, and this was my view most of the time. 

My week in pictures

riding my bicycle around Stockholm 

my view on my way somewhere

doing the dirty job cleaning the screen printing frames

waiting forever for them to dry...

I've got more of these screen printing "in process" pictures on my FB page, here

found the original (A)iphone in our workshop!

Karaoke with friends.

Late night street music.

watching Sau bear laying in the sun looking at me.

Sunday isn't over quite yet but I'm off for new adventures soon.

Have a fantastic monday!

/Carolina

The Woodland Cemetary

Todays inspiration comes from Skogskyrkogården, The woodland Cemetary, part of the Unesco World Heritage. Not many people know this but it's one of the most beautiful places to visit in Stockholm. The architecture and garden design in this enormous area is absolute grand and with all the chapels and graves it gives the most calming feeling. 

Today, I and a dear friend walked around, had a coffee, listened to birds chatting away, marveled at our view and talked of lost friends. Still, hours later I have this feeling of magical wonders.

I wish I could tell you I made these bracelets today while having my inspirational boost but these are already made and shipped to Helsinki, Finland. They will reside in the Paloni store - opening on june 10th!

For more pictures go to my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/carolinagronholm.creativeartanddesign

Beatrix Potter and Millesgården

I finally got to see the exhibition of Beatrix Potter's work at Millesgården. It was really cute but rather small. The sculpture park outside the exhibition was amazing, especially on this beautiful sunny spring day. 

Fun for the kids and young at heart adults? There were rabbit ear hats and childrens kitchen stuff to play with. 

Photos of Beatrix Potter and fantastic wall paper.

I'm mad about birch trees right now. I draw them all the time.

One cool thing I have to share is this music video of Sunshine Superman with Donovan. It was filmed at Millesgården in 1966! Love Donovan. 

Hope you're having a fantastic easter weekend!

/Carolina