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!
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Long-Steeped Black Tea.
Something to warm you during these cold, dark winter evenings.
Limited edition pigment ink miniprint (8x8cm, ed.50). 20€ + postage
Check out the “Café-Bistro miniprint” page to see the whole series (so far).
Christmas decorations
(…ended up colouring my advent colouring calendar pictures myself…) – The whole picture + all other colouring pictures of the advent calendar are available as downloadable free colouring pictures at Kuvituksia / Monsterium Facebook-page during December 2014.
Colouring Picture Advent Calendar
There is a huuuuuuuge colouring (advent) calendar happening in Kuvituksia / Monsterium Facebook-page! And not for 24 but 25 days!
Behind each window there is one A4 sized downloadable (PDF) colouring picture – one each day from December 1 to the first Christmas day. You can download and colour them each as individual pictures, but you can also attach them to wall to form a really big colouring image: about 150cm x 105cm or 59,1 x 41.3 inches (if you print each picture in recommended A4 size)! You can view the original numbering to help you position the pictures – or feel free to mix the order of the pictures if you’d like to.
The pics are A4 size, but if your printer doesn’t support borderless printing, or you would like to print to letter size, please select a “fit to page” option from your printer. (You may want to select a thin border markings in your printer, if they are available, that would help you to cut the extra borders off.) You may also print pictures in any smaller size, just select prosentage in your printer settings. Oh, and they are scalable, so if you want to print wall-size pics, just go for it! (…In which case I would like to see one…)
A new window is opened and a new colouring picture is downloadable each day about 12pm Finnish time (UTC/GMT +2 hours) at www.facebook.com/monsterium!
New works in Vinyl & C-Cassette Nostalgy series
…or not quite new, made already last year, but it took about a year to upload them into my website… Ooops.
View all the miniprints of the series.
Illustrations for the Alzheimer Society of Finland
I have made illustrations for a children’s story, a cartoon and an info booklet, and also a sea horse “logo”, commissioned by the Alzheimer Society of Finland. Texts by Heidi Härmä and Sanna Aavaluoma and layout by Mainostoimisto Maustamo (advertising agency). These booklets are meant for young children whose parents have gotten alzheimer in early age. The children’s story (The island of sea horses) was the most sad but beautiful illustration commissions ever.
It was also interesting to find out that hippocampus is a part of our brain plays important part in short- and long-time memory and it’s named after its resemblance to the seahorse (Greek hippos meaning “horse” and kampos meaning “sea monster”) – that’s why the sea horse in these stories.
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