monthly makers: inspired by nature

So the theme for this months Monthly Makers is nature, and going through my archives I discovered that I’ve made A LOT of things inspired by nature in one way or another. It seems to have been a big deal to me, since taking pictures of flowers is what got me into photography, painting birds was my main way to express myself as a child, and when packing my materials for the move there were two big boxes filled with nothing but artificial flowers.

Anyway, let’s take a look at what I’ve created inspired by nature.

Firstly there is painting the roses red, my mixed media creation using a book and my favourite artificial roses ever. 
I made a rose book 2.0 and used real, dried flowers instead. I hope this one survived the move.

And more roses! This time made out of clay for Monthly Makers a few months back.
And then of course we have my paper raven. It feels like I’ve talked a lot about this recently, but my neck hurt so much after making it so I should be allowed to talk about it. That’s a valid argument, right?
I embroidered an arctic fox with white on white embroidery. For Easter I made myself an Easter bunny in clay.And I’ve also embroidered a dove in space.
I made a pair of brooches shaped like antlers that make me feel super powerful. Taking over the world one brooch at a time.Created another mixed media piece out of a broken concrete vase and some flowers. It wasn’t Lumos who broke the vase, I promise.Space is nature right? Let’s say it is, because then I can include my space lamp! I won’t sell this particular one, but you can buy other ones here. And then we have a bunch of digital collages that are inspired by nature. This particular set is a pretty dramatic depiction of nature, but it’s still nature. NATURE IS EVERYTHING.

And of course we have these mountain/tree/star-digicollages that I made when the theme was Magic for Monthly Makers.
There are the mysterious gifs I made for the Monthly Makers-theme patterns.
For the same theme I made another set of pictures where I remixed an old favourite, nox, and made them kaleidoscopic.
This set is also OBVIOUSLY nature and was made when I challenged myself to only work with one technique for a month. Good times, eh?
Then of course there are the double exposures I made for a project in school.
And some regular photography. TIME FOR RANDOM NATURE PICS!

And that’s pretty much everything I’m going to show you today! It’s quite a lot, but tbh nature is probably the best thing ever.
I’ve linked back to the original post on everything that has an original post, because like it’s hard to link to an original post when it doesn’t exist.

What do you guys think of nature as a theme for Monthly Makers?

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What is Monthly Makers?

• 12 themes, 12 blogs. One theme for every month of the year, one hosting blog for every theme.
• You are all allowed to participate as many times as you want to.
• The theme is presented the 10th every month.
• To participate, just create something on said theme between the 10th and the 25th.
• The 25th every month the hosting blog will publish their own creation, and in the comment section to this post you will be able to comment and share your own creation, whether it’s a blog post or an instagram picture or something else – just link it.
• At the end of every month the hosting blog will put together a post with all of our creations.

The twelve blogs behind Monthly Makers are Alicia, Emelie, Mikaela, Beata, Jess, Sandra, Beatrice, Anna María, Annica, Agnes, Elsa and me.

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Översättning:
Månadens tema till Monthly Makers är alltså NATUR. Bästa temat, pga funkar både som materialtema och inspirationsord. När jag började leta i arkiven efter sånt jag gjort tidigare på temat insåg jag hur himla mycket det var. Naturen är uppenbarligen viktig för mig, det var ju kärleken till att fotografera blommor som gjorde mig över huvud taget intresserad av fotografi, kärleken till fåglar som gjorde att jag började måla mer och mer och när jag skulle packa ihop allt mitt material till flytten var det två fulla kartonger med plastblommor. Här är lite exempel på sånt jag gjort som är inspirerat av naturen! Allt ifrån digitala collage till mixed media-kreationer.

Snabb repetition av vad Monthly Makers är:

• 12 teman, 12 bloggar. Ett tema per månad, en värdblogg per tema.
• Alla som vill får vara med de gånger de vill och kan.
• Temat presenteras den 10:e varje månad och för att delta skapar du under månaden någonting utifrån detta tema.
• Den 25:e publicerar värdbloggen sitt alster och på detta inlägg kan ni kommentera med en länk till er skapelse, vare sig det är ett blogginlägg, en instagrambild eller något annat!
• I slutet av månaden sammanställs alla verk i ett samlingsinlägg.

De tolv bloggarna som håller i Monthly Makers är jag, Alicia, Emelie, Mikaela, Beata, Jessica, Sandra, Beatrice, Anna María, Annica, Agnes och Elsa.

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