Jessica Backup

Time for another Creative life-update!  The biggest thing happening lately really is the exhibition/event thing with Creativs that I was part of! It was a one week pop-up office in a garage with just SO MUCH ART. And my art was there too! It was a bit hard to get pictures of it, so these two are really the only ones I have. I was there at the opening, and I was meant to go there some more during the week but got a stupid cold so I had to stay at home. I made this, embracing my love for blue.  And in the process of making the above the image actually looked like this for a bit, and I liked it so much that I made it into two separate images.  I played around with some paint and the camera, and then I played around even more with it in Photoshop and made all of the above.  And lastly I made something that is slightly outside of my comfort zone, but I do really like it. OH AND ALSO!!! I’ve launched a new blog??? It’s called Wild Visual Heart, and is not going to replace...

It seems like number thirteen took a very long time to happen, but here is another update about my creative life!  My first creation of the year went along the lines of my “Curious”-pieces for Monthly Makers November . I also started feeling that I needed more physical creating in my life, and started experimenting with embroidery (here combined with some abstract painting on fabric. I invited my very good friend Angelica over for an embroidery session by the fire in our living room, and she brought stuff for embroidering what you see above, which is part of the version of the national costume for the area her mother is from! The one pictured here is her mothers, and what Angelica is aiming for. That morning I managed to take a few cute pics of Lumos in my window! There was so much snow back then, and the whiteness outside made for a great backdrop.  Made a good old abstract piece! I asked for name suggestions on Instagram and Twitter for this, and got the wonderful s...

Time for another creation for Monthly Makers! The theme for this month is “books”, and I seriously had a million ideas at the start of the month, but as the days went by I slowly lost interest in every single idea I had. Which is fair, I guess, since I’m probably having the few weeks I’ve had in years right now, but it was still pretty frustrating. Anyway, I decided to do what I usually do when I can’t come up with something to create on the theme of the month – to start with what I wanted to make and find an interpretation with that as a starting point. And so I have been creating a lot using my iPhone lately (bad health = lot of time spent in bed = phone art equals only art I have energy for) and I tried to figure out a way I could create something for the theme using my phone. And I had been working with an old picture of some flowers the night before, and realised that I could make something that just felt a little bit like a dark version of W...

I had to make a music video for an assignment, and it kind of turned out alright but nothing really happens in it, so instead of sharing the entire thing I’ve converted it into gifs! Well I did some other editing too, but anyway, they’re kind of gifs from the video.   I haave a lot of experience with playing around with blending modes in Photoshop, but this was the first time I actually tried using it on video (there are blending modes for video in both Premiere and After Effects, just fyi). The silhouettes are just shots of me in front of my bedroom window. Easy peasy.  

Hello friends! Seeing as many of my recent posts have been video based, you might have understood that I’ve been working a lot on expressing myself through video (more specifically Youtube) lately. The kind of obvious reason behind this happening right now is the fact that I’m actually taking a course which focuses on Youtube and video making, but that doesn’t mean that this is a new idea for me.  So if you want to keep up with my videos and use Youtube, it’d be lovely if you subscribed to me here.  My aim is to upload weekly from now on, and I’m planning on talking about creativity on a “deeper” level, sharing my own art and talk about life as an artist. So if you’re up for that,  I’m still struggling a little bit with it all, but that doesn’t make me love it any less. I enjoy learning something new and to develop my video skills in a similar way that my writing has developed from just writing on here for years. But I thin...

So, the theme for Monthly Makers this month is Photography! A wonderful theme, which also meant I almost had TOO many ideas. So obviously I picked the idea which meant I interpreted “photography” with video. My logic is flawless. (Well to be fair it kind of is, video is just a bunch of photographs a second, so it kind of is photography.) Anyway, I’ve made a LIFE HACK VIDEO. But it isn’t like your usual hysterical life hack video with useless tips, this is actually useful!! (ayyyy shots fired) I give you 3 tips for life as a creative person, so feel free to check it out! I hope you enjoy it! Don’t forget to link your creation in the comment section of Johanna’s post ! 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. For June the theme is PHOTOGRAPHY and  Johanna  is hosting. Comment on her post here   with a link to your cre...

I was just kind of watching Youtube yesterday, and came across Sanne and Rosianna’s video where they recommended a few smaller Youtubers . They mentioned a few people that I already knew about, but Sanne recommended Sophie Jerrome – someone I had never even heard of. And when I went to her channel I kind of felt angry at the world for keeping her videos from me for all this time? I think I fell in love with everything about her and the videos she makes within 30 seconds of the first video I watched. I was obviously drawn to the video with the word “art” in the title first, which is why I started with “put your art on the walls”. AND IT’S SUCH A WONDERFUL VIDEO. Also, considering she starts the video by saying she’s spending all of her time listening to Harry Potter audiobooks, I just couldn’t not love her?? I’ve been listening to the audiobooks pretty much every evening for 7 years (idk actually but something like that). Th...