Resilience, Interview of Eeva Nikunen, and a New Class!
Lots have happened this week! I hope you enjoy these videos!
Resilience to Create a Big Project – Interview of Eeva Nikunen
This week, I interviewed fantasy artist Eeva Nikunen about her big project – creating a self-published book from her art. We are talking about resilience: what she has learned from creating a series from her visual dreamland and how she has been able to carry through the project all by herself. Eeva also shows the supplies that she has been using, and if you are curious about graphite pencils, this episode is truly inspiring!
New Class: Collageland!
I am excited to launch a new class called Collageland! It is a new, expanded version of an old mini-course that I made for 21 Secrets in 2015. It’s packed with inspiration from textiles and instructions on how to create handmade collage art. See the video below!
New Live Next Week: Discover Your Style by Building a Visual Dreamland
Rather than trying to succeed and capture your style through a single project, start exploring your creativity as a process, designing your visual dreamland one stroke at a time! I will talk about my newest class Collageland and what I learned in 2009-2015 when moving from crafts to design and from design to art.
Come meet me live next week, May 10, 2018, 5 PM BST (London), 9 AM PDT (San Francisco) >> Reserve Your Spot here!
Creating Small-Sized Art
Creating Small-Sized Art – Watch the Replay of the Live Broadcast!
Artist Trading Cards
>> Pointillism in ATC cards – Instructions
>> My drawing class for those who can only draw stick figures!
Small Watercolor Panoramas
See more in this blog post: Watercolor Panoramas to Express Travel Memories
Creating a Small Canvas Painting
>> Add richness to your artistic expression – Join my art community Bloom and Fly
Eeva Nikunen’s Miniature Art
See more of Eeva’s detailed art at eevanikunen.com
Next Week: Eeva Nikunen
Resilience – How Eeva Nikunen Managed to Create a Series of 50 Drawings
I will interview fantasy artist Eeva Nikunen on May 3rd 6 PM Finnish time (4 PM in the UK, 8 AM PDT) This is another live broadcast of my blog, and everyone is welcome to listen to us. Eeva has just launched a self-published journal of over 50 detailed pencil drawings. We will be talking about resilience and what she has learned from creating a series and how she has been able to carry through the project all by herself.
If you can, come see us live:
>> Save your spot here!
My Story from IT to Art – Audio Interview
Lovely Lou Blaser from Second Breaks Podcast interviewed me and it was a lot of fun. She had interesting questions and we also talked about the vulnerability related to sharing art. Listen to the podcast here!
Live Broadcasts Begin – Come to Meet Me Next Week!
It has been my dream for a long time, and now it’s time to do it: I will begin broadcasting live blog posts!
Live Broadcasts – Artists’ Coffee Breaks
Think of these as artists’ coffee breaks for inspiration! I intend to keep the broadcasts short and then publish the recording on my blog. The weekly blog posts will continue, but many of them will be recordings of these live broadcasts.
My idea about the content is similar to the blog so far: have a wide variety of narrow topics related to my recent art discoveries and offerings. A new thing that live broadcasts enable is that I can invite other artists to talk about art so there will be interviews too!
Next Week’s Topic: Creating Small-Sized Art
The topic for the first live broadcast is creating small-sized art and how to use that to strengthen you as an artist. I will show some of my small drawings and paintings and share the enthusiasm and new perspectives that they have given to me.
The broadcast will take place on April 25, 11 AM in Finland.
It’s 9 AM in London, Europe
6 PM in Sydney, Australia
8 PM in Wellington, New Zealand
I know it’s a bad time for you who live in the USA or Canada (1 AM PDT / 4 AM EDT) but the weekday and the time will vary. You can watch the replay so you won’t miss anything! I will post the recording here on my blog after the live session.
Come to Meet Me Live on April 25!
On Wednesday next week, I will broadcast at Crowdcast where you can register for free. You can also chat with other participants when watching me – it’s just like having a coffee break together!
Creating Small-Sized Art – Click Here to Register!