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• l i t t l e s e a t r e a s u r e s • Swatching my purple with other colors, and I have a hard time picking my favor...
10/06/2026

• l i t t l e s e a t r e a s u r e s •

Swatching my purple with other colors, and I have a hard time picking my favorites. 🫣 partly blended, but mostly combined so that they can properly complement each other.

Here you see Seashell no 404 from the Purple Palette - soon available - at pushed from it's original rosey lilac state towards yellows and orange, boosted by deep violet, to deep sea blackish blue to blackish green and pale green. One common pearly purple, so many variations. 😍

• t r a c e s o f t h e s e a • The pearly green and soft lilac of Seashell, a color named after the almost-iridescen...
08/06/2026

• t r a c e s o f t h e s e a •

The pearly green and soft lilac of Seashell, a color named after the almost-iridescent inside of a seashell where you might be so lucky as to find a pearl.

Usually it's my things and pens that grow legs and gets borrowed, but this time I was the one who borrowed my daughter's sharp toothed seashell as inspiration. Loved finding odd shapes as I tried different mixes of the purple with other colors!

Seashell soon available as a set of 13 purples from Mette at

• s e a s h e l l p u r p l e • "Hey Em, would you like to make a purple color?"How to kidnap an artist, for sure 😅 luc...
07/06/2026

• s e a s h e l l p u r p l e •

"Hey Em, would you like to make a purple color?"

How to kidnap an artist, for sure 😅 lucky me, Mette only wanted to collab for her Purple Palette - a yearly palette she makes with 13 artist, each contributing with a unique shade. This year the color theme is purple and believe me when I say, openinh the palette is like opening a chest of sparkling crystals!
Soon available at 💜

I made no 404 - Seashell. Obviously, I am a bit obsessed with it 🤭
And I could not stick to just a pretty purple because when you get the opportunity to freely choose pigments and watch a skilled craftswoman blend it in front of you, well, I had to go a little over the top.

Because of all the colors in the wheel, purple feels to me like the most other-worldly of them. It does not have rules, and it fits in at the same time as it does not. Purple is like a little portal between realms and that’s what I was trying to capture wiht Seashell.

It is a quite unhurried paint. It mostly goes where you place it, does not explode in the water as more energetic pigments might do. It does however answer with delightful little blooms if you dip water into it, and waters down from a full bodied, creamy lilac to a very translucent rosey hue. There’s little particles that sometimes show. But as it dries, this deceptively lazy purple reveals a gorgeous shimmer! It’s a pearly green that complements the warm lilac wonderfully, adding a touch mystique.

Guess, guess what I have painted with it? 🤫


• t r a n s p a r e n c y • Sometimes I want for a medium that can build light on dark, but then sooner or later I'm alw...
25/05/2026

• t r a n s p a r e n c y •

Sometimes I want for a medium that can build light on dark, but then sooner or later I'm always reminded why I love watercolors so much 😍 the transparency and the pigments that travels through it, the explosiveness of color next to the barely-there, thinnest layer and all the expressions in-between. I love the airiness and absence of color just as much as I love the color.

• t h e t o u c h o f c o l o r • Bringing out a little study in roses I made a while ago 😍 no pressure about composi...
23/05/2026

• t h e t o u c h o f c o l o r •

Bringing out a little study in roses I made a while ago 😍 no pressure about composition or shape. Just water and pigments and the joy of watching paint swim as it pleases.

• s i g n s o f s u m m e r •Guess what I found this week on my walk with the dog? Buttercups! Finally! Probably my fa...
20/05/2026

• s i g n s o f s u m m e r •

Guess what I found this week on my walk with the dog? Buttercups! Finally! Probably my favorite flower of them all, looks like someone was out in the greenery with a bucket of bright, warm yellow paint and just, splattered it along the walkway 😍

• s e a s o n o f c e l e b r a t i o n s • All the birthdays, weddings, Christenings, anniversaries, get-togethers an...
15/05/2026

• s e a s o n o f c e l e b r a t i o n s •

All the birthdays, weddings, Christenings, anniversaries, get-togethers and graduations and more! Sun is out (well, could be, this is Sweden after all) life grows and it is amazing to be together. 🥰

If you have a celebration coming up and want to give a handmade and personalised card or artwork, let me know!

• b a r e l y t h e r e • It's not a must to have colors with a buttery, soft and silky texture when painting petals wi...
10/05/2026

• b a r e l y t h e r e •

It's not a must to have colors with a buttery, soft and silky texture when painting petals with the same characteristics. But it helps 😏
I've used the handmade colors from for the flowers - Andalusian Ochre, Dark Honey and White Mushroom. Silky, smooth, extremely translucent and just lovely to paint with.

Swedish foliage is not often pigment heavy. It's not a bright rainbow of tropical shades, it's usually mostly green and many tiny blooms. They can be pale and barely there, or colorful but small and barely there.
The nature here is lush in a way that does not scream, so perhaps that's why it feels so relaxing to paint it.

• b u t t e r y e l l o w • Sometimes there's no time for painting until the flowers are almost blown, on the verge of ...
05/05/2026

• b u t t e r y e l l o w •

Sometimes there's no time for painting until the flowers are almost blown, on the verge of falling apart. But they are still beautiful.
And I have been looking at the pale buttery apricots and warm green shades for so long, it had to be painted. Now, these silky petals bled into almost a lemony center, but in my head they were still a blend of apricot and butter yellow 🤭

• p u r p l e • Actually, starting on pink towards orangey reds and touching some browns, granulating blacks and then ov...
23/04/2026

• p u r p l e •

Actually, starting on pink towards orangey reds and touching some browns, granulating blacks and then over to plums. Speckled with glitter 🤩

Using so many of the shades from the glitter palette from Mette at , adding in just a little black in the center.

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