Lobelia´s world of airbrush, art and everything

back on track

2011-08-22T15:47:00.000-07:00

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"?

2011-07-21T16:31:00.000-07:00

...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"

2011-04-05T14:01:00.000-07:00

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...

2011-04-03T13:41:00.000-07:00

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 :-)

2010-12-15T12:24:00.003-08:00

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

2010-09-22T14:37:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-28T05:41:00.000-07:00

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.

new pictures!

2010-06-10T17:52:00.000-07:00

Check out my facebook page for a bunch of new pictures... Coming up eventually on my homepage as well

2010-05-08T04:50:00.000-07:00

my dad said last night "some people, their taste is just in their mouth"
Oh these words of wisdom! That really cracked me up

Just to illustrate this I will add a picture a friend sent me that is almost scary
Ok, I know I am being slightly cruel to someone, but hopefully that someone
wont happen across this blog

2010-04-18T04:05:00.000-07:00

I used to think that loving someone makes you stronger.... now I am not so sure.
Seems to just eat me up from the inside and not really give anything back.... Maybe it is being loved that makes you strong, not the feeling of love in itself

Elmia day 1

2010-04-02T13:18:00.000-07:00

I love this show....

day one has been going well... I got everything set up alright and the day has worked even though i hav´nt slept at all last night... I was dizzy at breakfast, and unforgivably clumsy all day...

Anyway, the uncovering of the secret car went well and I can disclose now the the car in question is actually the new comeback project of Lukas Koos, the Zpirit

My model Joakim Wikström was a hit.. he has been strutting around bare chested all day making the girls drool. Once there was a pair that went past where the guy suddenly yelled at his girlfriend "..Stop looking!!!" Wonderfull! I couldnt have found a better person for this.
Mostly i have been getting good responses. And I have started painting him and it is turning out quite well....
getting sore feet from the high heels, but oh well.

Also I am presented in the show catalog which is really great. The Mustang I am showing will soon get a faded paintjob from the constant picture taking... People seem to really like it!
Meeting loads of old and new freinds and clients.

Yup, bedtime though... the biggest day coming up.. this is just the beginning hehe

M.A.N release and new video

2010-03-25T15:10:00.000-07:00

My good friends M.A.N have the release of their new album on Saturday (come and see if you can handle some seriously heavy metal) in Göteborg and I have had a finger in some details of the album cover... (Pictures coming up)
Also i have done the paintwork on Roberts bass guitars. You can see them on my homepage.
But even in these videos, check them out. the newest one Logocide has just now been released...

In the end of the second one "blood vanish" (a really great video by the way) You can glimpse my stallion doing his first try at being a film star....
And all three of these songs are very good indeed

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=103789364

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=50384146

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=38052569

Elmia

2010-03-15T14:48:00.000-07:00

coming upp at a terrific pace, Elmia Custom motor Show is closing in..... Wonderfully exiting, but so much to prepare and plan so I just want to curl up in a ball and hide...

But very possibly the best year ever, I am quite sure that after this show alot of new people are going to know who I am. Not only will I be airbrushing a good looking guy from real life onto a car bonnet in my own booth, I have also been involved in 2 secret projects that are going to get uncovered at the show and will get a lot of attention, AND I have painted a little thing that Chip Foose will be presented with at the show on behalf of the GBG VW club.

some links of me-related stuff

2010-02-04T10:18:00.000-08:00

I was idly Googling myself, and found a mish-mash of stuff I have done that might be of intrest, like a couple links to happenings I have been to

From FUZZ guitar show 2009:
http://www.globalmusix.com/reportage/fuzz/fuzz.html

Motormagasinet- Elmia 2009 (a little picture a little way down on the page)
http://motormagasinet.nu/articles/view/custom-motor-show-2009

Another link to the spring collection of Mountain horse USA catalog
(look at page 8)
http://www.mountainhorseusa.net/pdf/2010-Spring-Collection.pdf

And some old stuff, like have you seen this marvelous book I did the cover of a few years back? It is a really funny book written by a guy in India and published in sweden by a good old freind of mine Sarriy
http://www.ginza.se/Product/Product.aspx?Identifier=629464

And here is booklet I illustrated for a live roll game I was part of some years back
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d99neo/vargaland/Under%20ytan.pdf

And the logo of a year (can´t quite remember what year it was though) for GothCon, a Gothenburg gaming convention that happens every year
http://www.gothcon.se/loggor/logo_xxviii.html

Finally I am a tattoed person

2010-01-27T13:36:00.000-08:00

After years and years of planning I have finally gotten my very first tattoo... Lost my tattoo virginity, so to speak. Done by the very talented Marcus at Funny Farm Tattoo in Skövde.

www.funnyfarmtattoo.se/

Only problem is that it is not done!!!! But luckily I get to get it finished before the fast approaching Elmia Custom Motor show

2010-01-05T09:23:00.000-08:00

Wow, this cold is amazing!
Don´t know if we have had cold for so many days in row since I came to Sweden 20 years ago. At least not this cold. I like it. Though some things get difficult, like driving my old wreck with the windows all iced up and no heater, or when the water in my house froze, or when my fingers dissapear when i try to do things with my horses, but still. I like it.

It is now possible to comment on my blog

2009-11-22T15:38:00.000-08:00

I am not good at these things, and it has taken me untill now to figure out that the comment function on my blog was turned off......

Mountain Horse design

2009-11-19T15:23:00.000-08:00

Här kan man se en förhandsvisning av kläderna Kerstin på Mountain Horse (samma tjej som var min modell på Elmia) har designat med trycket som jag har målat åt dom i lite Ed Hardy anda, fast med häst inriktning.
Mer bilder kommer när grejerna kommer ut i affärerna.....

http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=59612471485

Terje Aspemo, Kungen av frihands airbrush

2009-11-19T14:47:00.000-08:00

Som alla vet så är Terje en av sveriges absoluta bästa airbrushmålare, och en av pionärerna inom frihandstekniken.... Någon jag ser upp till helt klart. Så jag var väldigt smickrade när han kom fram på Elmia i påskas och berömde mig för min uppvisning (när jag målade av en Pin-uppa live på mässan).

Nu var det så att han hade ett jobb i Göteborg för ett par veckor sedan, och kontaktade mig för o se om jag ville komma och kolla lite, o få lite tips och så, och det ville jag så klart. Så jag var där och fick betrakta mästaren i arbete i typ 8 timmar..... Det var väldigt kul faktiskt. Kul o se och kul o prata. En intressant person, och rolig. Visserligen så kör han lösningsmedelsfärger och ingen av oss hade mask eftersom vi pratade hela tiden, så saker blev bara roligare..... Jag var alldeles yr när jag åkte därifrån....

Lincoln Continental w. suicide doors (Custom to the max)

2009-11-19T14:43:00.000-08:00

Lincoln Continental w. suicide doors (Custom to the max)

2009-11-19T14:01:00.000-08:00

Here is another fun one I finished last week at Dösebacka lackering where i spend most of my days nowadays. So in one picture you can see Jonas who did almost all of the sanding and masking, and did a excellent job I must add. It brings all the work up to another level when it is a car like this, and he met the challenge with flying colors...

Anyway, the job was Ghost flames and pin-up girls in discreet colors.... So the flames are actually hard to catch on photo, thats how ghost they are... So better pics some day when the sun is shining

beautifull bones

2009-11-19T13:39:00.000-08:00

Here is one of my newest finished projects, a sculptured tank for a Triumph... finally. See, the thing is, I love sculpting, but i very rarely get orders for it.... People love to look at it, but few dare have it on their own baby.... Well, one reason of course is that it is exspensive... It takes many hours.
Anyway, Ola has taken the leap after much thought, and now his tank is 3 dimensionell with the detailed backbone of a human. I love the fact that it is pure white, no airbrushing.... makes me think of marble statues

Les Paul i Milwaukee

2009-10-04T07:37:00.000-07:00

Samma dag som vi besökte HD museet så besökte vi även Discovery museet vid Lake Michigen i Milwaukee. Och även om det fanns mycket häftigt att se där så var vi där i första hand för o se Les Paul utställningen som hölls i hyllning till honom i sitt hemstad nu när han har gått bort. Min pappa och min bror spelar gitarr bägge två och fann mycket av intresse där. Detta var på samma dag som pappa fyller 60, det svårt o tro! (han är med på en av bilderna)

Harley Davidson museet i Milwaukee

2009-10-04T07:33:00.000-07:00

Mäktig entré

2009-10-04T07:17:00.000-07:00

Nu har jag varit i Harley Davidsons hemstad, Milwaukee eftersom pappa bor bara 20 minuter därifrån. Vi passade på o besökte den nya och faktiskt helt makalösa, Harley Davidson museet. Man behöver nog inte vara HD fan, eller ens intresserade av motorcyklar för att uppskatta den. En mycket påkostade och väldesignade ställe, helt klart. Det finns ett av varenda mc dom har gjort, och alla kända byggen såsom Evil Kneivels åk (den som far genom luften ovan) och alla film varianter, som så klart dom ifrån Easy rider, och ngn styling monster som kallade "King Kong"... Kul med all historia

2009-09-16T15:40:00.000-07:00

Jag åker till USA på lördag! Helt osannolikt, känns jättekonstigt, och skönt. Har inte varit tillbaka till mitt hemland på 10 år! Oförlåtligt, men sånt är livet ibland. Pappa fyller 60. Har inte träffat honom på 2 år. Ush. Dessa avstånd.

Evolution Garage

2009-09-05T15:13:00.000-07:00

JAG ÄR KÄR (i en jäkla bil *suck*)
Nu pustar jag ut efter en heldag hos Evolution Garage vid deras nystartade bilträff/event vid Stig center.
Det var en lugn o trevlig evenemang med god stämning och jag ställde ut där med ett bord och en mycket trevligt bil..... för o visa vad det är jag gör.
Grejen är... jag fick låna Mats underbara Mustang som jag har målat huven på, och fick köra dit den själv (tack!)...och OMG.....jag vill ha den........Jag visste att jag ville ha en sånn sedan jag först fick syn på en, och det var ändå innan jag hade kört en.........
Fast jag märkte snabbt att det ville alla andra också, och det gör faktiskt inte saken bättre. Vi får se vad som händer i framtiden.........

projekt just nu.. Chevorlet Blazer

2009-08-31T09:22:00.000-07:00

Nu skall jag inviga denna blogg med att berätta om att jag målar en Chevrolet Blazer tillhörande en vän till mig. Han är professionell snowboard åkare men är även surfare och temat på bilen speglar det.. Den är höjd så den påminner om en överdriven dunebuggy nästan och hibiscus blommor och vatten är huvudtema i motivlacken. Den kommer bli COOL. Så om någon är nyfiken på arbetet på den så är det bara attt komma förbi Dösebacka lackering i kungälv inom närmaste veckan och ta en titt

Mari Bergström var förbi i torsdags och tog några bilder som ni får se här