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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
My new blog
I finally got my new blog up an running. You can find it here: www.reena.se
Some good news for my non-swedish speaking readers: My new blog have a translate tool, which works very well. I been a bit crappy to update this blog as you might already know... It has just been too much work to translate every blog post. Hopefully you will discover that I do update my blog more than two times each year now when I have my new blog...So hurry off to my new blog, I have a little competition going on for my visitors in celebration of my new blog :)
Some good news for my non-swedish speaking readers: My new blog have a translate tool, which works very well. I been a bit crappy to update this blog as you might already know... It has just been too much work to translate every blog post. Hopefully you will discover that I do update my blog more than two times each year now when I have my new blog...So hurry off to my new blog, I have a little competition going on for my visitors in celebration of my new blog :)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Damn blog
I am tired and annoyed right now on my blog. I don't mean this one, I got a new one today. I signed up for a domain name and a web host. I spent the entire evening trying to get my new blog up. I am not a newbie when it comes to computers so this should have gone easy. I had a easy to follow manual and I followed it carefully....like twenty times without getting it to work. I sent the support team a couple of mails but really didn't get a useful answer back. The last time I tried to install the blog environment it suddenly worked. I have no idea why because I did exakly the same as the other 19+ times.
Anyway, it's up now. It's nothing to show you but as soon as I have finished it you will get the new address.
Anyway, it's up now. It's nothing to show you but as soon as I have finished it you will get the new address.
Friday, February 11, 2011
A lot of snow
Last time has been a bit hard with a lot of things going around at the day care center. Yesterday at my work someone got the stomach flu which seem to go around here in Sweden now. She had to lock herself in the bathroom and stayed there for several of hours before she could manage to get out and home. And a little later another collegue went home because she felt sick. So now I only hope that i didn't catch the bug.
Today morning it had been a lot of snow. We and all neighbors, except one neighbor that own a jeep, are staying at home. Taking the car would mean getting stuck in the snow...
Today morning it had been a lot of snow. We and all neighbors, except one neighbor that own a jeep, are staying at home. Taking the car would mean getting stuck in the snow...
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Christmas stocking
I bought a Christmas stocking for my son. I had to search long before finally finding something that didn't look as cheap crap. Here in Sweden we don't have that tradition, to hang up Christmas stocking, although it seem to get more common.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
The ultimate guide to colored pencil - Mini review
I got Gary Greene's new book: The ultimate guide to colored pencil, last week. The release of this book has been postpone at least two(?) times, so I been wanting this book for a long time until I finally got my hands on it.
The titel of the book says it Ultimate. I don't know if I would go as far as calling it ultimate, but it does contain a lot of information. Probably more than any other book on the subject I've read (and I have read a LOT). In the book's introduction the writer mention that the demonstrations included are more targeted towards the advanced colored artist. And perhaps that this is true because it seems to me as he has left out a lot of steps in the demonstrations. This is not a good thing in my opinion. There are a lot of demonstrations in the book, but I personally had prefer fewer but with more steps. I love to see how a painting develops...which I'm not really able to do in this book. The photos of the steps are also too small (it's a small book that has two-three photos on each page) which makes it even harder to see how he have done the things in different steps.
You might notice that I write painting instead of drawing in my small review, the writer mention in the book that when you use colored pencil than you are painting not drawing. And I guess that's true, even though I admit that I mostly say drawing but perhaps I should start say painting instead.
Anyway, to sum it up. It is still a good book and perhaps it was only me who had too high hopes after seeing his water-soluble book which I just loved the paintings in. This book doesn't have as near as many good paintings in it in my opinion.
It's a book that is worth buying if you only want to have one or a few books about colored pencils. If you are like me, and already have more books in this subject than you really need, then this book might not be for you. I already know most things written in this book, and when I buy a book about colored pencils today then I do it mostly because I want to see how the artist have used the medium. I want to be able to watch the demonstrations and learn something from it and I'm not sure that I will be able to do so with this book because most of the drawings felt too "boring", so for me it wasn't a good buy.
I love the painting of hands. This is such a good job, I wished the book had more paintings of this high quality.
The titel of the book says it Ultimate. I don't know if I would go as far as calling it ultimate, but it does contain a lot of information. Probably more than any other book on the subject I've read (and I have read a LOT). In the book's introduction the writer mention that the demonstrations included are more targeted towards the advanced colored artist. And perhaps that this is true because it seems to me as he has left out a lot of steps in the demonstrations. This is not a good thing in my opinion. There are a lot of demonstrations in the book, but I personally had prefer fewer but with more steps. I love to see how a painting develops...which I'm not really able to do in this book. The photos of the steps are also too small (it's a small book that has two-three photos on each page) which makes it even harder to see how he have done the things in different steps.
You might notice that I write painting instead of drawing in my small review, the writer mention in the book that when you use colored pencil than you are painting not drawing. And I guess that's true, even though I admit that I mostly say drawing but perhaps I should start say painting instead.
Anyway, to sum it up. It is still a good book and perhaps it was only me who had too high hopes after seeing his water-soluble book which I just loved the paintings in. This book doesn't have as near as many good paintings in it in my opinion.
It's a book that is worth buying if you only want to have one or a few books about colored pencils. If you are like me, and already have more books in this subject than you really need, then this book might not be for you. I already know most things written in this book, and when I buy a book about colored pencils today then I do it mostly because I want to see how the artist have used the medium. I want to be able to watch the demonstrations and learn something from it and I'm not sure that I will be able to do so with this book because most of the drawings felt too "boring", so for me it wasn't a good buy.
I love the painting of hands. This is such a good job, I wished the book had more paintings of this high quality.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Keep on trying.
It's not easy to get those socks on. But if one doesn't give up, then eventually you will get it :)
Old memories..
..came back when I saw what my son did. It was a lot of years ago but I do remember how I used to put those caps on my fingers as well. I also used to do some painting on my hands and face, I hope my son won't like that part as well..
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Teddy bear day
Tomorrow is teddy bear's day. My son only plays with cars so I had to dig deep in his closet to find his stock with soft toys. To my suprise he wanted to play with two of them... So they will follow him to the daycare center tomorrow and celibratenthe day of teddy bears.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Got a new neckless
I'm so happy. I manage to get a hold of a neckless designed by Efva Attlings called Twin Dots. I have been wanting to get that neckless for years but I thought it too expensive in the stores. I manage to find it for a third of the price on Ebay so I'm very happy about it.
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