Dalarna

One more vehicle, self propelled. I'll take the weekend off!

Plate tectonics

Well I probably should have called this post the Masquerade, but I though this title more thought provoking

Zoo

Made for this weeks Illustration Friday

Time and Intelligence

At last we have managed to bring Artificial intelligence to the art of clock making! It gives the clock the ability to run It gives the clock the persistence it needs when waking up sleepyheads And if he/she refuse to wake up, the clock now can bring some friend and give an extra reason to wake up With intelligence also comes the ability to fall in love and to serenade, and the ability to marry and the ability to go on a long honeymoon In time small clocks will be born, and waking up never have been easier And also with intelligence time will age, as we all do

Bachs not dead

I got a comment from Brazil informing about the likeness of a t-shirt suggestion and one of my illustrations, is it just coincidence, plagiarism or friendly influence? This is the planned T-shirt and this is my illustration I suppose I wasn't the first man to use animals in this despicable manner, in art or otherwise

Bad Omen

Happy new Monday, cold today in Sigtuna about -5 centigrades and sunny.

Pigs and comets

Adding an extra dimension to my work

quarrel

Conflict

Who are you calling a pig

Back to the drawing board, another moleskine spread how original.. have nice weekends everyone

The cone

Went over it a last time last night, thought it was a bit pale, now it's off to Berlin and the Christmas machine With some wash, which make it about time for dinner. More or less finished with the inking, managed to do some last minutes smudging I got careless close to the finishing line It's time for lunch, something very unglamorous I can promise you Made some additional inking, as someone already has mentioned I'm using some pencil on this one, I often do when it comes to some rudimentary symmetry. And it saves a bit on the stomach ache. Making a suggestion to the exhibition the Christmas machine, I'll post the progress in this post. The start had my hand hurting but I'll better hurry up the deadline is soon.

a Stately rocket

Why shouldn't Astronauts (or maybe Baroqueonauts) be allowed to travel in style?

Quiz answers

Thanks all who answered my little quiz a week ago, I got ten correct answers (you should have gotten mail, if not contact me) ten happy comets will be coming your way soon, and now the correct answers: This species is called the Piggles, noteworthy for it's ability to oink and fly at the same time Coco's friend is called Loco, read about their European odyssey here: The Finnish tango mends a broken heart like no other music, Coco in Love The legendary Pygmy Elephant helped Hannibal conquer the Alps No commercial Airline brings you to holy place like Templar Air My Father was born on Stora Kornö, on the west coast of Sweden. Nowadays it's only inhabited summertimes Nothing really beats the combination of pickled herring and a rich brown gravy And it was the mighty Neo Classico who fought Moderno

Mayan Space

Paging through my art history books I'm struck by the lack of material from the American civilizations, (most of the non western world, to be honest)

Gothic space

More rockets to come this week, hope you all had nice weekends

Futurism

Prints

I made some more prints, (from my sketchbooks), signed and numbered in editions of fifteen in my shop

Knights

Coat of arms Follow Sir John Camoflage Making a chainmail Curiosity And as it was created

the Elephant Inn

Remember that when you're going free-booting you can leave your Elephants with us at the Elephant inn. Thanks everybody who answered the Quiz, the quiz is still open if more want's to join in!

Ink Quiz

Today as promised I have a small quiz open for a week, real original art to be won! Send the answers to mattiasadolfsson@gmail.com 1.What is the name of this species? 1. Piggie X.Pird 2. Piggles 2.What is the name of Coco's friend? 1.Loco X.Silo 2.Dar co 3.What music genre mends a broken heart like no other?(according to coco) 1.Finnish Tango X.Islandic hip hop 2.Norwegian rai 4.In order to conquer Rome Hannibal used Elephants, what breed did he use? 1.Indian X.Pygmy. 2.African 5.What's the prime Airline choice when it comes to visiting holy places? 1.Baroque Air X.Naval Air 2.Templar Air 6.What small Island does the blog moderator heritage from? 1.Hisinge X.Lidingö 2.Stora Kornö 7.What is the main ingredients in Swedish Fondue? 1.Brown Gravy X.Cheese 2.Brown ale 8.In this epic battle Moderno took on it's most formidable opponent to date, what was his name? 1.Chezilla X.Neo-classico 2.Brutalico Win a comet! original art work, send your answers to mattiasadolfsson@gmail.com the quiz ends a week from now

500th Post

As this is my 500th post I thought I'd reveal some of the different method I've been using to broaden my public, you just can't reach everybody with the use of a sketch blog. Blogging by carpentry Televised blogging Sandwich man blogging Radio blogging Hat blogging Telemarketing blogging Blogging by detouring Blogging by streaking Blogging by piloting Tomorrow I'm thinking of having a quiz so sharpen your knowledge of this blog, real prizes to be won!

Proxy

Yet another fountain pen design, tomorrow it's time for post #500, I wonder if there's someone who has read them all.

Advantages of the horisontal hat

Didn't get to post this for this weeks Illustration Friday

Sargasso

This one revolves around the thought that comets and eels share the same breeding patterns, doesn't this sound plausible? For this spread I colored the background digitally, didn't trust the paper for this one. But for the sake of order I post the raw moleskine spread, another television drawings. TV makes me draw comets for some strange reason.

Safe from harm

No hat's today but some elephants and heavy machinery.

Rockets through the ages

Neo classical rocket Modernistic rocket Surreal rocket war rocket Just five more posts until my 500th post, stay tuned

Hats of the old west

This weeks theme on Illustration Friday is Hats, I've been exploiting this completely without shame using old drawings from my extensive collection of hat drawings, (and will continue with it, see completely without shame). This one is new though..

the white face

As I just sold one of my boat drawing I felt I needed to make one more just to have something in stock The drawing how it looked before I got it all wet

Digger

Pac mobile

Racing with the stars

Made the first part of this drawing while waiting in the car (my wife and daughter went shopping for the winter), added the comets while watching a rerun of the Danish TV-series "rejseholdet", colored it in a lull period in food making. There's a short interview with me here Lafraise.com

Heavenly creatures

Lion sun Old habits Speeding Hula hopping Annoyance Birth of a sun

Improving chess

The chess rules have been almost constant for the last couple of years, in order to make the game more popular I've added some new exciting pieces and a new color. The Bodyguard the Fashion blogger the Zapper the Big Mac A streetcar called desire the Gentleman farmer Van Gogh the Prancing Pig the Juggernaut Bonaparte And introducing the brand new color: Yellow For more information on rules and wear to obtain the new pieces contact us:

Look mom no pilot