Geological Map of Pennsylvania

From the depths of bibliodessey, I didn't have any other choice but to share this. Expect a colossal blog update soon.

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/12/victorian-infographics.html

 

As I don't have a working scanner, It's been a bit tricky keeping this platform updated! This book here is a small part a 'narrative' project. 

Research Blog

I have just created a research blog to accompany this one, which you can find at:

Organized Confusion

From a while back

 

Lemminkäisen Äiti/The mother of lemminkäinen

The work on the left is a painting by Axel Gallen-Kallela, depicting the scene in the Kalevala (Finnish mythological epic) of Lemminkäinen's mother finding her son on the shore of the north land (death) , and about to attempt bringing him back to life. I thought the connection to monoprint (above) that I made a few days ago interesting. Possibly on some subconscious level I was trying to make a reference to this work? Or maybe there is something in the melancholy of the two women that link them together?

Image Collection

As I realize it's been a while since I last blogged, so here is a taster to my current project. I am currently working on illustrating H.P. Lovecraft's Color Out of Space, and I have developed an interest in working with the organic elements of the story, and possibly handling nature herself as a character. These photographs are part of my image collection for this project, all of which will make much more sense when paired with the drawings I have been working on, and will hopefully upload tomorrow. (That is, if I can get my scanner functioning...)

Some figure drawing

 5 Minutes Eah

Wild Blurberry and Curd Pie

The Baking Disaster.

As it has actually been since forever that I last blogged, and as I was baking I thought I would make a small tutorial on how to make a wild blueberry curd pie, as it's a really nice traditional Finnish recipe. It turns out, I've been taking pictures with a camera without a memory card most of the summer, and at the beginning of my baking, anyway, here are the last stages. (Ingrediants at bottem of post.)

Preheat oven to 200 c.
1. Measure out all the dry ingredients (except potato flour) and mix with margarine. Separate half of the mixture into a different bowl and mix in rest of base ingredients. I didn't have almond flour so I used coconut instead, have yet to find out if this was a wise move. Pour onto a baking tray.
2. Mix together curd, remaining eggs and sugar. Pour on top of base. 
 3. Mix frozen wild blueberries with potato flour. 
4. (below) Pour blueberries on top of curd! (continue below...)

 

Blueberries (and a cloudberry) mixed with potato flour on top of curd. 

 

5. Crumble rest of muru dough on top. Place pie in oven! Live updates to follow! I can surely promise a lot of drama because I have a manic depressive oven that is not very co-operative. The small orange berry in the corner is a cloudberry.

 Ingredients 

Muru- dough

7 dl flour, 80 g almond flour, 2 ts vanilla sugar, 2 ts baking soda, 2 ts baking powder, 250 g melted margarine

Base

1/2 of the muru- dough, 1 egg, 2 dl full cream

Topping

500g curd (or maybe sour cream?) , 2 eggs, 1 1/2 dl sugar, 250 g frozen wild blueberries (or blackcurrants. This recipe won't work with store bought blueberries...)

2 tbs Potato flour (I'm sure normal flour would do the job just fine.) 

   Result of Eva Peron project

 

I can't tell whether this drawing is finished or not, originally the idea was to have much more detail, but I'm not so sure about this any more. I think I'm going to start working in some color, so I thought maybe it would be best to scan this in before I completely destroy it...