Green Isle Studio, our logo

We're officially open for business! Nancy and I've been working together on various different projects for a couple of years now. It's only recently we decided to have a brand name, Green Isle Studio.  Green Islet is our given last name on English. It's very common in Sweden with names coming from nature, like for example "meadow-twig" or "Sea-flower". Very pretty, right? 

We wanted to have an organic touch to our logo as we feel it's something we stand for and also hints to in our name. We made some decisions of what colors, fonts and feelings we wanted to have with sketches. After that it all pretty much came flowing down onto paper. Nancy has such a lovely watercolor touch to her paintings and I really wanted to incoperate that into our logo. I feel this logo represent us and I'm really excited to show you our new green place! 

We will keep on adding new limited art, originals, hand printed goods and much more. We use Instagram for work in progress, previews and updates. And of course we do have our own 

Green Isle Studio Blog over at tumblr. 

We are have a special opening discount the week through on posters and prints. You don't need no code, you will automatically receive the 20% off when purchasing any paper goods. 

Thanks for all the love and support we received so far! 

/Carolina 

Green Isle Studio

Here's a little preview of something me and my sister are working on. You see, we've been thinking about doing something together for ages more than just exhibitions. One of the first things will be an online shop with new drawings, limited editions, originals, printed textiles and products. 

We're planning on open very soon with special opening prices so stay tuned!

Below, the beginning of our logo sketched out by my sister Nancy Grönholm. 

And if you're wondering about the name for those outside of Sweden -

Green Isle is our last name translated into English.

We're on Instagram: GreenIsleStudio

Have a great weekend!

/Carolina

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. 

Redrawn and Preview

I never redraw something that I've finished, even though I should sometimes...

I think it's just my eagerness to make a new drawing of a recent idea 

that keeps me on new paths forward.

But the need to re-organize and change color palette for this one was big - It had to be done!

The new "Home Sweet Home" with detail pics below.

This is something new I'm working on. 

Lot's of tree branches and an owl amongst other creatures (not seen here).

I've been working on this for sometime now. I'm just not pleased with it yet, but I'm getting there! Detail pic below. 

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. 

Sneak peek of new animation project

Oh boy, I haven't blogged for over a month! It's the Christmas holidays and I finally have time to rest, eat fat christmassy food, spend time with my little family and yes - blog a little too!

This is some short clips of our latest group project at Hyper Island we did before the holidays. The shower scene and watery text was my first tries of animating frame by frame in flash and was made as part of a short 30 sec movie for the client Oliver & Eva. I'll post the movie here as soon as I'm able to show it.

Hope you're having a great holiday, 

Wishing you a wonderful new 2014!

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. 

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

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. 

Work in progress / Illustration and textiles

I'm working on some new illustrations, part of a series in three with the theme summer/ocean.

Very dreamy and very retro. I can't wait for summer to arrive. I'm hoping for a long hot dry summer, to go swimming, for picnics in the park etc. Us swedes are very sensitive when it comes to the weather as we have to endure a very very very very very long winter before the sun even shows up in mid march.

A rough sketch of one of the drawings "Let's Go Fishing". Digital.  

New printed textiles are coming up in the shops...

/Carolina

New handprinted TRIANGLE tote and scarf

Earlier this year over at Instagram, I asked people which color combos they prefer and many told me it was pink and grey which was pretty great as that's one of mine favorites too. I mixed some colors together and voila! the result became a scarf and a tote. The bag on the picture will come in the same pink and grey mix as the scarf below very soon. As i'm in the process of making new scarfs I thought I would ask you about which shape you prefer - square or long rectangular for a scarf/shawl? Comments about this are VERY welcomed! Thanks!

I just had to throw in some gorgeous yellow, my favorite color! 

Inspiration for today from Pinterest is: (this would make such a great painting....very tempting!)

Source: ashleeraubachphotography.blogspot.com via Rivet & Sway on Pinterest

///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

Project DIY

Thought I'd share my latest DIY project consisting of a thrift store sweater in beautiful red and a lace ribbon. 

Easy as pie! 

The thing that made me come up with this idea was that the neck width was too small for me and instead of hiding it away at the bottom of the drawer like so many other half finished projects I decided this sweater was to lovely to be forgotten. 

I started with cutting of the neck part of the sweater and making the hole to a preferable size.

Gathered my favorite lace ribbons, in this case I decided to use the one at the bottom. 

I folded and pinned the edges. Sewed twice with the machine. 

I then sewed on the ribbon by hand right under the front edge.

I chose to only have a strip of ribbons between the collarbones but it could go around the whole neck too, it's just a little more work!

The ending result. Looks cute, right?

Now is the time to start creating!

/Carolina

New Tote Bags

Things I've been up to since the opening of the exhibition and my last post:

   

   

   

   

New hand printed bags! With my old zigzag pattern I used on some t-shirts but in new design now on tote bags. Organic cotton printed with non-toxic waterbased inks of course.

Oh and I sold my 200th item on etsy last week! I had my goal on 200 sales for the month of December so I was more than pleased, did a little dance and sent a free tote bag to the buyer.

And I finally had some time over and started on something...

Made a new collage card of The Superhero Cat. Could there perhaps be any interest of making this into a larger print, what do you think? Suggestions are more than welcome!

Wishing you a great weekend friends,

/Carolina