Pilgrim-testdrive

Hi!

Boy, have I a treat for you! Here comes the first test drive with my character Quentin from my upcoming comic "Pilgrim". It will be published on the web, stay tuned for details. What you see here is more of a sequence than a comic, I simply wanted to give the character a go, and try it out. And as always this is a piece of process, I'm going to work on it some more. Next week, another test drive will be published, with the second lead character of "Pilgrim"! Enjoy!

Take care!

The correct violin words.

For this update I thought I should correct my poor violin English from one of my earlier update, so here are the correct words:

stämskruvar/pegs
stall/bridge
ljudpinne/sound post
stränghållare/tailpiece
översadel/top nut
kind- och axelstöd/chin- and shoulder rest

There you have it!

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The icon is finished!

Hi!

As I told you earlier I attended an iconpainting course this autumn. Even though we spend all days painting I didn't finish it during the week, so I finished it at home. This has probably been the most eventful icon yet in my life... A couple of weeks ago, I dropped my brush which was full of burned umber paint, on Lukes right eye, so it looked like he had been in a fight! After screaming out loud for a couple of minutes... and asking Luke if he was testing me... I kind of sorted it all out! Later when I was doing the lettering, I made an itsy bitsy mistake that led to having pencil-smudges on the halo and under the letters, which looked like it sounds, awful! But after employing my mad colorblending skills, it all worked out. The hardest part of this icon was the face, which took the most time to paint, the second hardest was the cloak, to get the right nuance of red... and the third was the the lettering, for me lettering or the skill to write aesthetically is something I will work on. For now the icon is going to get some rest, about 6 months and then I'm going to put varnish on it. I think Luke is more happy with this one. It seems that Luke and I have gotten to know each other a little bit during these months. I really hope he likes it.

Take care!

Another Icon!

Hi!

This autumn I took another icon-painting course, I felt that Luke wasn't all that happy with my last icon, so I gave it another shot with Luke the Evangelist! This time I had a full color replica by my side so I could clearly see what I needed to do. That was a BIG help!

I'm not completely done with it, I will do some writing on it later on and there are some small things that I will fix, but for now I and Luke are going to get some well deserved rest! Below you will see how it all came together!

Take care!

the repair of violins

Hi everyone!

This update will feature what I've been doing during this autumn. And as always there is a story... My older brother found this old violin in his house... it's built in Lidköping in Sweden, the 14th August, 1903, by E. Pettersson! If there are someone that's knows something about this Luthier it would be nice to here it! We don't know how long it's been laying there, our theory is that the owner has gotten a new violin and then taken some stuff from this violin.
This has been my first repair-work, and I have enjoyed it very much!

(sorry for my homemade violin-english...)

I've done  four new tuning screws/stämskruvar.
A new stable/stall.
Polished it.
Restringed it.
Put in a new sound-pin/ljudpinne.
Put on a new string-holder/stränghållare.
And constructed a new over-saddle/översadel.
Put on new shoulder-rest and cheek rest(?).

Well that's about it, yesterday I tuned it and it sounds good, at least in my ears! I played on it, mostly out-of tune but that's my fault and not the violins... at least my neighbors didn't bang on the wall...

Take care!

Here's some before and after pictures:

Hang-Ten!

Here is another of the basic-animation-assignments that I'm working on. This time it's a wave. We're also supposed to put in a boat, that's riding on the waves.

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Back to basics!

Hi!

I'm currently taking an animation class, here's what we're working on for the moment, and as always these are works in progress, as usual on this here blog! I'm taking the class to brush up on my animation-skills!

Last week I took another course that I will tell you all about later, when I have finished what I started there, it may take some time, but when it's finished, it will knock your socks off!!!

Take care!