Jenny Katarina Wiik

The hair book

mjau — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:12:07 +0000

The book I illustrated last winter is finally for sale. It’s an educational book about hair and coiffures in Finnish for hair dresser students. But it seems the book has attracted attention in women’s magazines too, and hopefully it can reach a larger audience. Here are some of my favourite illustrations and pages:

Technical details: I used Wacom Intuous and Photoshop CS3.

I absolutely loved this job and hope I get do more work like this. Thanks to SanomaPro and the authors Pia and Marika for a great collaboration!

Illustrations autumn and winter 2011

mjau — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:09:54 +0000

I’ve been focusing on my thesis this winter, but I’ve had time to do some initial images for my own fantasy book (there will be about 25 images in all). Here’s a lion fountain that’s gone through a long progression as I’ve been learning digital painting. It sets the tone of the book quite well: dark and ancient, but also magical and hopeful…

I also did two Christmas/Yule-cards together with the company Sonck-Koota (they have copyright):

First solo

mjau — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:10:01 +0000

Earlier this year I found Butoh. I realized it was my form of dance. I feel completely at home with it. So I’ve been going to workshops when ever I have time. And in November I was given the opportunity to give a first solo performance.

The setting is KTH in Stockholm, in a concrete pit deep under ground. And the performance was part of a LARP. I’ll write more about that later… Photos are by Eva Ö.

This blog

mjau — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:13:02 +0000

The reason I’m starting this blog is that MobileMe is turning into iCloud, so my old web page is going to disappear (because I’m not going to jump into the iCloud). As I’m very happy with WordPress blogs, I’m staying here. I mostly blog in Swedish at Kolofont, so I will not be updating this blog very often.

But why not take the chance to create something new here?

In the different pages (About, Art, Research) you can find some basic information on what I do. But I’ll also be posting illustrations, photos, thoughts about research and writing in the blog posts; But completely randomly and only as a part of this being a personal web page.

There are a lot of exciting things going on in my life right now. Next year I’ll finish two huge projects I’ve been working on for years (Book 1 and Thesis). And at the same time I want to have time for my family and taking care of myself. I want to have time for reading, dancing, seeing good films, playing games and traveling. I’m a mom, a geek, a thinker, a maker. Welcome to my little space in the web.