back on track

This summer has gone crashing by in the insane pace life in general tends to take nowadays. I have been working a lot, but actually mostly at a normal summer job these past two months, squeezing in a handful of custom paint jobs in between. But the airbrush orders have piled up and next week I will be back at my dear "Dösebacka lackering" with some parts from a trailer truck, a car with "call of Cthulhu" details and guitar and bass for the band "Dead by April" among other things. Also I have a couple new oil paintings to do for Bent Branderup, and a handful of animal and people portraits to paint. I am also playing with some new ideas that might get more of my art out there for people who can´t afford ordering the actual original peices. More about that later.

The picture is from when I did Elvis a week or so ago. On trailer truck

Becoming a "blogger"?

...or whatever its called.. It is a big deal nowadays. Blogging. Being a blogger. Writing down all your thoughts where everybody can read them. Whether they are interesting or not. Whether anybody bothers to read them or not.

And that is a funny thing, there are thousands and thousands of self proclaimed "bloggers" and I find that kind of amusing. Not that they write all their thoughts on the internet, but that they have a name for doing so. As if that makes you special. I mean, the things you write might be special, but the fact that you are writing them on a public spot on the internet does not in my opinion.

If you have 10 "followers" (followers... what an odd description... it rather suggests a sect...or fans...people "following" your every word) but anyway, if you have 10 followers, does that mean you have 10 readers? Not that I do by the way. I have 1 follower at this moment. And I am very thankful for that. It takes guts to be the first. But I wouldn't mind having more. And that is also an odd thing. Why does that feel important? Although in my case of course a large part of it is commercial value... The more people who read, the more people who are interested in the work I do... But actually, I would like to use this blog for more than work. I would like to use this to write my thoughts on things, a bit more long winded than on facebook, and have people read them. And that's what kind of confuses me... I am not really sure why I find it satisfying that people read them...

Oh well f**k it... my point is, I am going to try and use this blog a little more frequently. I have said it before, and failed miserably, but now I am giving it another shot :-)

ps. the picture is from last summer in GÖteborg, right before a storm

Proudly presenting the "Terminator"

This is the vehicle I will be showing in my booth at Elmia this year. This one is massive with a great deal of airbrush work done on it.
I did most of the work last spring, but very few people have seen this HUMMER after its paint job, and we have been keeping a pretty low profile with the intent of showing it at Elmia 2011.
So here it comes! One of a kind! :-)

Check out "the making of" pictures on my facebook page where you can see step by step how the work progressed:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=135236023752&aid=292587

Together with the owner, Janne Andersson and his freinds, and my guy Robert, we are putting a bit of energy into making a really cool booth this year in hall A with a theme to suit the HUMMER. I will be airbrushing live some kind of real nasty, gruesome picture cause that´s what i feel like doing this year.

I am looking foreward to meeting everybody, so come by and say hi!

Guitar for Bandit Rock awards...

This was a guitar to be won in a competition held at the Bandit rock awards 2011 that was this saturday..
So my commission was to paint the logo of the company sponsoring the event and a little true fire around it. I think it turned out quite well :-)

New pictures on my Facebook page... Check it out!

oh man.... this whole business of trying to keep my pages updated is not going well. At all. So much has happened, and so much happening, and so little of it here

Enjoying a bit of a holiday at the moment... Something almost unheard of for someone with their own company.... I am going to try and get better at keeping my homepage and blog up to date. soon.