Illustration exhibition in Helsinki
I’m having a small illustration exhibition in Helsinki, at the Rikhardinkatu Library Children’s Department through November 2016!
More info about this beautiful library at on HelMet (Helsinki Metropolitan Area Libraries) site and more info about the exhibition coming soon.
Oh, and follow my Instagram and especially hashtags #piratecat and #jamerirosvokissa (not much there yet with those hashtags, but coming soon)…
10v Monsterium
Yep. It’s here! Ten years of colouring pictures with a mild 10v voltage! The book 10v Monsterium, including 32 colouring pictures! There’s absolutely nothing zen or mindfulness thingies in this retrospectively raging colouring book. You can hardly get any peace of mind of it either, but I have tried to keep the illustrations simple enough, that no bigger stress should grow during the colouring process. Between the covers there hide some messy-minded monsters, crazy creatures, some dogs and cats and one striped fox.
The price is 10€ per book (+postage). If you are interested, please email me paivi.hintsanen(at)coloria.net :) PayPal payment possible.
ps. 10v is actually Finnish equivalent for 10y(ears) :)
Monsterium Popup XV at Christmas Fair, Jyväskylä
The Sweet Waste Dyes Guide
A few years back Ulla Lapiolahti and I made a Finnish e-book about garbage colours – how to get dyes and colours out of your everyday biowaste, for example, like onion skins, coffee grounds etc. Now the 20-page e-book is out in English (with the help of Miia Huttunen and Frankie Robertson who did enormous proofreading job!)
In the guide we show you the secrets of garbage dyeing, give you instructions of how to make inks and printing pastes, carve some potatoes for printing purposes and pattern some paper – fun and ecological recycling in mind. The guide is made for everyone interested – but especially for teachers and group councelors. We are glad if our guide can be utilised in teaching or any group activities.
Our guide is made to be printed at home. It is shared with Creative Commons licence, which gives permission to share, copy and print it for non-commercial use. Download, share with your friends and have fun!
Download the booklet via SULOisia värejä – The Sweet Waste Dyes webpage – and share it with your friends too!
Normal Coffee For Left-Handed.
Do you know what day August 13 is? The official Left Handers Day! I have thought about you and besides the Normal Coffee I’ve had Normal Coffee For Left-Handed in my Café-Bistro Miniprint selections for a couple of years already! So, come on – have some (- Limited edition pigment ink miniprint (8x8cm, ed.50) for just 20€.)
Colouring pictures, anyone?
I’ve drawn unique colouring pictures for an even 10 years now – so, it’s a kind of anniversary here!
Until last year I created mostly odd (but verrrrry nice) monsters (which gave the original name to my Monsterium project) and cute cartoony animals, but last year I draw first of my colouring pictures “for adults” – flora themed drawings, more abstract pattern thingies and such. (“For adults” in quotation marks, as it seems to be that most of my pictures have always been coloured by adults, not children… even those cute monster ones). At the moment, I’m planning to publish either a series of numbered limited edition colouring pictures or a colouring book – let’s see which one comes out first.
While waiting that one, if you are interested in colouring and having something that no one else has, my unique colouring pictures are just a thing for you. Unique, original drawings on an artist quality 200g cotton paper with an archival pigment ink pen… only 10 € a piece. That’s a bargain. If you’re interested, please contact me paivi.hintsanen@coloria.net and request some themes. If I don’t have anything ready, I’ll draw one just for you!
Ps. I’ve also drawn some commission colouring works for a few companies – if you would like order one (several unique pictures or one or a few ones to be copied), please contact me and ask for an offer!
Tampere Art Fair / D 221
I just ordered a very small test set of postcards of these grey night fants (and some pink ones too). I’ll take the cards + dozens of unique badges + whimsical and seriously weird miniprint series (with my more “serious” kind of art) to my booth at Tampere Art Fair! See you there!
Monsterium/Kuvituksia popup c/o Päivi Hintsanen
at booth D 221
Tampere Art Fair 14.–16.11.2014
Tampereen Messu- ja Urheilukeskus
I’m a guest at the Jyväskylä Art Museum Shop during Nov 29 – Jan 12, 2014!
There are art prints and also illustration stuff (badges, colouring pictures, mini prints) and cards available.
The artist meeting (with a cup of tea) on Friday, November 29 at 4.30-5.30pm! Welcome!
KISS and other miniprints available again!
I am going to Tampere fair,
coffee, cats, princesses and Kiss,
Between the salt water and the sea sand,
Then he shall be a true pirate of mine.
(…WHA?)
Monsterium/Kuvituksia popup
at booth E 85D
Tampere Art Fair 4.–6.10.2013
Tampereen Messu- ja Urheilukeskus
http://www.tampereentaidemessut.fi/