Time to wake up from the winter sleep and play!

I have been hibernating for a while but now I am slowly coming back to life!

For me it has always been important to play and experiment, I never wanted to work in just one way and in one style - I find that quite unchallenging and boring and want to develop and try new things.

Currently I am getting bits and pieces together, running around London with my camera and has started to play with my ideas for a new print and pattern collection, this time I will work with mixed media and graphics.

I like to work with collage now and then as it's a very different way of working and feels more free and less controlled then drawing and I can get some use of my love for photography.

Let's see how it goes.

Tribe IPhone & Samsung s3 cases

Yes!

My Tribe design is now available on cases for IPhone 5, IPhone 4/4S, Samsung s3 and iPad mini over at the lovely people at Giant Sparrows.

For more info click here

Hello there...

I am working on a few new, fun projects and thought I'd share some work in progress here on the blog. The black stripes with the black rabbit is in its simplicity slowly growing to a favourite of mine;



I will show the final project and the final prints in a few weeks time when its all finished, here's another sneaky rabbit until then!

Giraff-o-mania Now Available at Society 6

Giraff-o-mania is now available at Society 6 on IPad and Iphone cases and skins, lap top skins (for both MAC and PC lap tops), stretched canvases, art prints, cushions and more!

To view all the products click here

Giraff-o-mania

I am currently working on a new pattern collection but this time I have left the pencils and instead grabbed my camera and has chosen to work with graphics, shapes and colours. It might be an effect of the depressing grey weather outside but I am very found of bold colours right now.  Here's a little sneak peak of some work in progress.

© Åsa Wikman

PS. To get $5 off any of my products over at Society6, click here: Society6
The offer ends the 11th of November.

New Society6

Hello again!

I have got a nasty cold and is at home trying to kill the bug by eating lots of ginger, chilli and garlic and drinking lot's and lot's of tea. I gave myself a little mini mission from bed today, to create a new Society6 account, something strange happened with the old one and I couldn't access it any more but now I am back up there again and think I will try and be bit more active then before. Society6 has added a lot more products to their range which I have to confess makes me a bit excited.

At Society6 I will sell Art Prints (printed on natural white, matte, ultra smooth, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper) and Canvases (on fine poly-cotton blend, matte canvases) and later on I might add some Iphone cases, stationery cards, laptop and Ipad skins - how fun is that?

If you would like to have a little look at my shop then click here

Stay away from flu and have a nice evening!

Oops...

I have not been very good at blogging lately, one reason is that I start finding it boring, another one is that I have a large pile of work to dig into and lately I felt completely drained so everything is moving in half speed. I think its the lack of summer and sunlight that done it and now the autumn has sneaked up on us and slapped us in the face and all I want to do is to stay in bed and eat. I do not like to feel constantly tired and I am not ready for autumn, I am still waiting for summer 2012!

During the last week I found out that no one that I talked with here in London actually knew about the recent mass demonstrations in Moscow and Madrid, am I the only one who find that frightening? Where do you live? Did mass media in your country report about the mass demonstrations in Moscow, Madrid, Portugal, Athens and Barcelona now in September or do you not read or watch the news?

Anyway, I am in bed gaining weight and the construction of my political strategies and my master plan will have to wait until I have gained enough to handle the British weather.

Time for tea.

Play

I played a little bit with my photos from Brighton, hmm...

Beach Out fragments

Work in progress, brainstorming and playing. There's something that I really like about this.

I See You Print Now Available

Hi!


I just wanted to let you know that I See You is now available as a print over at the lovely company Gramposters. It is available in these sizes 42 x 29.7cm, 59.4 x 42cm and 59.4 x 84cm and is printed on glossy 200gr paper, for more info click here.

Society 6

I have joined Society 6 and have a few exclusive prints for sale that you can get a sneak peek of below, to go to my Society 6 page click here

Untitled Print Now Available at Welcome Home

My Untitled print is now also available at Welcome Home in Glasgow

Welcome Home

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street

Glasgow

G2 3JD

UK

Play

Slightly bored even-though I have plenty of work to do, need something new to plunge into and has hooked up with a few illustration and design friends to plan a exhibition for the beginning of next year, fun, fun fun!

Here's a good talk with Stefan Sagmeister about the importance of time off and playing, so I am having a little play today and the images above was what I came up with.

And yes, one more thing, I started to sell my prints in a few shops here in UK and US but I would love to sell some in Sweden as well but don't know any shops dedicated to independent art and design, if you happen to know of any please let me know!

Cheers!

Untitled Print Now Available at Hermit Editions

My Untitled Limited Edition Hand Print is Now Available at Hermit Editions, yeay!

New Limited Edition Print

I have a new Limited edition print out, it's called Sleeping Owl and is a mixed media design created with acrylic paint and photography. It's in a limited edition of 50 and each print is signed and numbered and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. The prints measure 59.4 x 84.1 cm and is printed on my favorite paper;  Hahnemuhle German Etching Paper.

It will be available in my Online Shop from November.

Limited Edition Prints

Untitled Limited Edition Prints

Printed on Hahnemuhle German Etching Paper, 310 g.s.m in a limited edition of 50. 

Each print is signed and numbered and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity

 and measures  21 x 29.7 cm and is from this month available in two of my favorite shops: 

Hermit Editions

Concrete Hermit

5a Club Row

E1 6JX London

UK

Little Paper Planes

64 Santa Clara Ave, Apt 2

Oakland, CA 94610-1378

USA

There's something I rather like about you...

I'm not sure what it is.

Sleeping Owl

A sleeping owl. And I am off to bed.

Work in Progress

Today I am working on an album cover and so far it looks likes this;

I See You

Interesting weekend, I was very close to getting hit by a car,  2 meters to be exact, another reminder about that I should stop complaining about small things - it could have been game over last night.  Now I'm going to have a Sunday feast with vegetarian food and draw in bed. Have a nice Sunday!

PS. I will pick two postcard collection winners on Wednesday so there's still plenty of time to put your name down if you are interested.