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.

Fail, comic drawing

Illustrationfriday.com has this topic of the week: Fail. We all fail all the time but sometimes it is difficult to illustrate. At first I thought of failing in making a cake. But i did not have a good photo to use as inspiration. Then this came up! A man with difficult in lighting a fire. He totally fails at doing that.
Original drawing on paper with graphite and color pen. Size: 15 x 20 cm or 6 x 8 in.

Save a bit of summer, drawing

Topic of the week on Illustrationfriday.com is Save. This is my interpretation of the theme. An artist can  save a bit of summer on paper by drawing it. It is a short period of summer flowers.
Drawing on paper. Size: 20 x 28 cm or 8 x 11 in.
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Jumping cat, ink,color pen

Heavy is the theme on Illustrationfriday.com this week. So I came up with this. A big cat jumping on a small music-stand and not realising it is too heavy!
Original drawing. Ink and color pen on paper.

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.

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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Whirling feathers, color pen

Whirling feathers, color pen on white paper. Size 38 x 28 cm or 15 x 11 in.
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Feather, color pen

Color pen on paper.
Size 20 x 28 cm or 8 x 11 in. Click to buy

Tricolore, color pen

Three cars in a row like the french flag! An old Citroen, an old english car and a newer Citroen! I took the photo about ten years ago. Color pen on paper. Size 28 x 38 cm or 11 x 15 in Click to buy