Jessica Backup

Comment on this post with a link to your creation on the theme CONTRAST to be a part of Monthly Makers this month! // Kommentera det här inlägget med en länk till din skapelse på temat KONTRAST för att delta i Monthly Makers den här månaden. Det går såklart bra att kommentera på svenska!  It’s the 20th, which means it’s time for me to show you what I’ve made for Monthly Makers this month, and to start collecting links to your creations! Read more about how to participate and at the end of the post. There was a bit of a process for me this month, as I started with an idea very different from what it all turned into. I was inspired by the dozens of images of miroring selected parts of landscapes (like Witchoria’s for example) and just wanted to try something like it for myself. It didn’t really feel 100% to begin with, as I felt like I was copying others a little too much, but I was just gonna try it. So at first I had this! But I felt it was a bit too b...

Okay, so I was thinking I was gonna start this again around New Years, but I forgot. But anyway – last year I was inspired by Alicia’s Den kreativa veckan (The Creative Week) and started “Creative Mondays” where I both shared what I had created and things I had enjoyed online. And then I stopped, and I don’t know why! But anyway, I thought I’d pick it up again, rising out of the ashes like a phoenix is “My Creative Life”. I’m gonna try to show some more process-y things here and not only like batches of finished results. I haven’t decided yet if I’ll do this every week, or what weekday, but we’ll just see what happens. I hope you’re okay with that. I’m not, however, going to continue sharing things I like online in these posts . I think I’m going to write separate posts for that! So yeah – let’s go! I don’t really know where to start since this is the first one so I’m...

I’ve been hanging out on Hitrecord (the website where you upload your stuff, where you are free to remix and use other things uploaded to the site and can find challenges – read more here ) for a few months now, and while my activity on the site fluctuates I keep coming back to make remixes and collages out of images on the site. So I thought we’d take a look at a few of the ones I’ve made so far! Click the images to get to my remix, where you can find the resources I used. First out is this collage I made for a weekly challenge where you get a collection of images to combine into something new! The challenge is called Crate Challenge and it’s probably my favourite thing on the site. I try to participate every week! This was shared on the facebook page and someone commented that it was bad because “you can see the stars through the moon”. Hahaha. Made this for the “The Art of Breaking Up”-project, I think. 😀 This is a quite rec...

It’s a new year, and it’s time for a new beginning – today is the start of Monthly Makers 2017! And I’m the host this month! Let me tell you a little bit about Monthly Makers. Monthly Makers is a challenge for anyone who wants to be more creative. During 2017 we’ll be launching twelve themes – one for every month – to inspire and challenge you and to get you to create something new. This is because it’s easier to create with something specific as a starting point, because it’s more fun to create together with others and because you learn a lot from showing your work and taking part of other people’s creations and thoughts. Take part of the themes you want to, to the extent you want to. This year we’re welcoming  Emilia , Fredrika , Johanna  and  Julia  to the gang  and gratefully thank Anna María , Annica , Beata  and  Sandra  for their years as hosts. For 2017 we’ve also changed the date we release the theme ...

2016 is coming to an end, and I feel like I want to summarize the year in some way. I’m not really interested in talking about what I’ve been up to, but I would like to look back at what I’ve made. I’ve done this for a few years now, and it’s always such a great confidence boost haha. To be honest I feel like I’ve had one of the most intense years of my life when it comes to creating, so I have a lot to summarize. I had my first ever exhibition (together with Alicia ) where I exhibited my photo manipulations. Looking back I don’t really feel like they were that great, and I hope I get a chance to have an exhibition during 2017 too and show my new work. I also discovered a completely new way of working  that I’ve been completely obsessed with, and have for the first time ever focused on one single technique for longer than a month at a time. And it actually feels great! I thought I would’ve gotten bored by now, but I keep tweak...