Can of surströmming, drawing

Theme this week is Canned on Illustrationfriday.com . My first thought was a can of surströmming or fermented Baltic herring. This is an exotic speciality of Sweden. Some love it and some detest it. This is an old type of food with an infamous smell. It is produced along the northern coastline of Sweden. The herring is fermented and then tinned where the fermentation process continues. The process only require a small amount of salt and therefor was it a common way to preserve fish  where salt was scars.

You can find surströmming in almost every supermarket in Sweden now and is considered a delicacy. In old time it was a everyday dish along the north Baltic coastline. 

You can find more information about surströmming in Wikipedia.

I have tasted it. It was edible but none of my favorites. And the smell? Well, you survive.

Original artwork. Color pen drawing on paper.  Style: realistic. Size : 19 x 27 cm or 7 x 10,5 in. Available for purchase.

Forgotten flowers, oil pastel artwork

Illustrationfriday.com and the theme is Forgotten. There is lots of things that is easily forgotten and one of them is watering the plants and filling water in the vase with the nice bouquet of flowers. I often forget those things. Two twigs of lilac. How beautiful when fresh!

Original artwork. Oil pastel painting on paper. Size: 20 x 28 cm or 8 x 11 in. 

The artwork is available for sale on http://en.dawanda.com/shop/gamasujo

Walnut seed,oil pastel painting

Theme on Illustrationfriday.com this week is Seed. A walnut, a big and beautiful seed.

Oil pastel painting, original artwork. Size 20 x 15 cm or 8 x 6 in.

Winter garden, color pen and ink drawing

Theme on Illustrationfriday.com this week is Garden. Usually you think of lots of green and flowers. But there is also winter gardens that are just lovely! This place exist, almost. I have made changes that suits my imagination. It was a very beautiful winter day a year ago. We had two months of winter from the middle of january to the middle of mars in Stockholm. But this last winter season has never been so warm, since the start of messuring temperature 250 years ago. No snow and no cold! But I heard they had snow in Greece!

Original drawing, artwork. Water soluble color pen and ink on paper. Size: 28 x 40 cm or 11 x 16 in.
Price: 120 $

Choose, original drawing, ink, color

Choose. To call or not to call! A paraphrase of Shakespeare! Illustration theme: Choose on Illustrationfriday.com I like the twenties, the hairstyle, the clothes and design. So I thought I should do a drawing with all those things.
The trouble with ink is you have to draw all lines with an ordinary pencil, put on the ink and then erase all pencil marks.
Unfortunate my eraser was not the best one. It had an tendency to smudge. Not good.
I must find another one. After all this was finished I could put the color on paper.
Original artwork. Ink and color pencil. Size 28 x 28 cm or 11 x 11 in. Price: 110 $

Snow-Whites Mother, Color pen Drawing

For Illustrationfriday.com Theme for this week: Tales and legends.
I thought of the fairy tale Snow-White. The becoming mother sheds some drops of blood in the snow when she is sewing by a open window. The castle is surrounded by hills and mountains. Some snowflakes is falling and she is dreaming of a child white as snow, black as ebenholts and with lips red as blood...

Original Color pen drawing on paper. Size 27 x 20 cm or 10,5 x 8 in.

Plain meal, oil pastel on paper

Topic of the week on Illustrationfriday.com is Plain. I thought of a plain meal with fried eggs. Plain can be so many things. Good and bad. But even plain food can be tasty.
Size: 31 x 24 cm or 12 x 9,5 in. Oil pastel on green tinted paper.
E-mail me if you like to purchase the artwork. Price: 90 $ with passepartout.

100 % Full, original artwork graphit and paper drawing

An entry for illustrationfriday.com . Topic of the week is 100 %. I had several ideas of covering the whole paper with books and other things but then I thought of a full glass. If it is 100 % filled there is no possibility to pour more. 

Graphite and color pen drawing on paper. Size: 20 x 28 cm or 8 x 11 in. Price 80 $

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Grow by the coal, graphite drawing

Submission to illustrationfriday.com The theme of the week is Grow. 
The photo that I used as inspiration for the drawing was shot two years ago. 
Someone had burnt a small tree in the woods and the stump that got charred was left.
Original graphite and color pen drawing on paper. Size 20 x 28 cm or 8 x 11 in.

Poppy flower, oil pastel

Red poppies in a field. Lovely! Oil pastel on paper. Size 23 x 31 cm or 9 x 12 in.
SOLD

Street of Barcelona, Architecture,vehicles, streetlife,Soft Pastel artwork

Street in Barcelona, Spain. Old man watching and wishing all those vehicles... I was first interested in this place when I saw these knotty trees striving for light. Soft pastel on a orange tinted Canson paper. Dominant colors: orange, grey, green.
Size of the artwork: ca 51 x 41 cm or 20 x 16 in. Price 200 $. E-mail me if you like to purchase the artwork or have a question!

Street of Barcelona, architecture, soft pastel artwork

A town scape. Street in Barcelonas Old town, Spain. Morning light. Size 43 x 30 cm or 17 x 12 in.Soft pastel on tinted paper. Will be delivered with Passepartout. Price: 120 $ E-mail me if you like to purchase the artwork!

Last piece of chocolate, food and candy, still life, oilpastel

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A still life from a chocoholic. In Finland and Sweden you can buy a milk chocolate from a company called Fazer. In my opinion they have the best milk chocolate. This artwork is made with oil pastel on brown tinted paper. Size 22 x 30 cm or 8,5 x 12 in.

Roses and glass, still life, oil pastel

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Roses and glass on white tablecloth. Still life. Oil pastel on brown canson paper. Size 22 x 29 cm or 9 x 11,5 in.

Sunflower, oil pastel

Sunflower. Oil pastel on colored Canson paper. Size 45 x 30 cm or 18 x 12 in. Price 120 $ E-mail me if you like to purchase this artwork.

Eggs and spoon, food, still life, oil pastel

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Three eggs and spoon. Oil pastel on brown colored Canson paper. Size 21 x 16 cm or 10 x 6 in.  

Crocus flower,soft pastel artwork

Close up of a blue crocus flower. Soft pastel on paper. Size 35 x26 cm or 14 x10 in. No frame, only a passepartout. Price 120 $. If you like to purchase the artwork then click here

Snooker player,soft pastel artwork

Soft pastel on brown tinted paper. Size 38 x 30 cm or 15 x 12 in. Price 130 $.
E-mail me if you like to purchase the artwork!

Feeding the duck,bird,oil pastel artwork

Oil pastel on paper. Size 47 x 32 cm or 18,5 x 12,5 in. A friend is feeding a duck with left over from a picnic, last summer. Price 140 $.E-mail me if you like to purchase the artwork!

Knight on horse, oil pastel

Knight on horse in a tournament. Oil pastel on paper. This painting is after a photo I took a month ago on a medieval market in Skokloster, a castle in Sweden. It was really fun to watch and the knights was very good.
Size 43 x 30 cm or 17 x 12 in. Click to buy