Monday, 25 March 2013

Rudolf Koivu rules

Found this old and tattered Grimm's fairy tale book with beautiful illustrations.

The book is illustrated by a Finnish illustrator and painter, Rudolf Koivu (1890 – 1946), 
who is well known for illustrating books of fairy tales for children.


Here's a finnish Snow White and the seven dwarves with their red cabin in the woods. The little lanterns the dwarves are holding are so cute they make me want to draw little lanterns!

Here's the prince waking Sleeping Beauty. Check out that stache! Nice.

Where frozen margaritas come from:

This crows all like 
they see me rollin', they... sleepin'?!

In a faraway magical garden there is a dude in diapers shooting an arrow at an amazing golden bird.
What an asshole!

Those swans are actually princes. True story.

The initials were also very pretty:


It would be so much fun to illustrate a children's book some day!

Monday, 4 March 2013

Kittens!

"Wha'!? Los' yoh mi'ens, you naugh'y lil' ki'ens!" -S.N., 2012 

Made my sister a kitten brooch for christmas shown here in a never-before seen extraordinarily 
sharp and clear mac photo booth -image:


Anyways, so then yesterday I made some more, and I really feel like making more still, but I must refrain myself, for I really have no plans for what to do with them. Oh well.

Here they are, the five little kitten
(clockwise from top left:  MilyCuiMussorgskyNikolai and Borodin)
...and some close-ups...

мяу, meow!


Sunday, 3 March 2013

Fauna & Flora earrings

A Sunday morning devoted to some crafting!
Fimo-clay in turquoise and grey, wire, bead caps and tuned earrings parts: