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Mon Apr 22, 2013, 2:40 AM
Somewhere. I was fired from my illustration job did I tell you? Bad times for them, they had to cut costs and I was like YAY! Because I really really needed to get a kick in the butt and focus on my own projects again, but it's not like you will go and turn down a well paid job when you just had a baby you know? So now I didn't have to make a decision yet a decision was made and it made me feel happier and more fulfilled.

So... I figured -- It's time for an update again, don't you think? I'm amazed I still have friends who watch me here after so much time of absence, we're not talking months anymore, we're talking years. But time really flies, it's true what they say! And here I am,  trying to browse through my 4000+ deviations I have on my watchlist and lurking around to see if my dears and darlings still hang out here (and you do!) with my white strands in my hair realizing I'm really not 20-something anymore, I'm 30-something. I have a husband. A baby. I am writing a book without any pictures in it. And I'm also working on books that will have pictures in them - but currently I've had to pause what I was doing to focus on finishing this book before summer is over. I have about 3 months before I want the complete story to be written down, I'm currently somewhere + 30 000 words which means... maybe a seventh or sixth of the book written? Math is not my strong side, storytelling is. And coffeedrinking. Yes that's right. Some things will always remain the same. :heart:

So basically this year 2013- year of the golden Snake - I'll be winging it.

Better put glasses on my third eye too - I need all my intuition. But I'm happy. Yeah. So - I will not stop painting and drawing BUT so you know - sometime this summer I'll have more time to draw and paint so I'll drown you  in work later - but for now it's the occasional drawing/painting and lurking about! :heart:



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Anneli Olander
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♥ Swedish illustrator and artist Anneli Olander grew up in a small town, deep in the thickly forested, copper-rich Swedish province of Värmland -- and later found happiness in the poetic and coffee sipping urban jungle of Stockholm.

She has been freelancing since January 2007 when, at the age of 26, she started her own company A.Olander Illustration. Her favourite quote is "I didn't make it because I was the best- I made it because I couldn't afford to lose".

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at :
Be Cool gallery in Rome, Italy (2008), Corey Helford Gallery LA, USA (2008) and Friends of Leon Gallery in Sydney, Australia (2011).

More recent ventures have seen her illustrations adorn everything from the iPad skins to iPhone apps, from artisanal chocolates to the pages of ArtNews.

Olander’s illustrations combine a lush painterly sensibility with a darkly playful take on girlish fun and the remixing of fantasy with the everyday.

♥ For more information visit www.anneliolander.com
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:iconjdagonzalez:
~JDAGonzalez 6 days ago  Student Traditional Artist
Hello! I just wanted to let you know I featured you in this journal: [link] for being one of my favourite artists on dA! Thanks.
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:iconoohweealba:
hello! I miss your art sooo much since I deleted my facebook account :( anyway... just showing some respect!!
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:iconmritallguru:
I've looked at your artwork and i have to say it is very unqiue! I some how draw into all your peices becasue i never really seen art such as yours.. i mean i have but its moments when do not really care for looking at art.....am i rambling? IDK this is kinda the first time im giving a compliment to an artist. I really love your work on the crying rainbows girl.. idk i just love it! please keep up the work you got a new follower :D (PS sorry for horrible typos)
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~L-i-n-d-s Dec 13, 2012  Student General Artist
hi there! This is a really lame question but I've wondered for ages how to change usernames on here! Can I ask how you did it? :)
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:iconsarbikita:
extraordinary collection of your work
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:iconserenag519:
Happy Birthday Anneli!! :D :party: :cake:

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&& Congratulations on the recent newborn :hug:

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:iconaggielexi:
~aggielexi Jul 18, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Happy Birthday!
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:iconmowwom:
~mowwom Jul 18, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
:bulletpink::heart: happy birthday!! :heart::bulletpink:

:cake:
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:iconkamuihand:
Mood: Joy ~KamuiHand Jul 18, 2012  Student General Artist
HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!
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