April 28, 2010

Block figures by Ingela P Arrhenius

While glancing through Grain Edit, I came across the work of Sweden-based illustrator Ingela P Arrhenius. One of her pastimes is creating characters from painted wooden blocks. Completely charming! A bag of blocks...

...becomes little animals and people transported through a mid-century time machine. To meet more of Ingela's characters, visit the wood figures section of her blog.

(Images by Ingela P Arrhenius)

30 comments:

  1. So very cute! These would actually be a fun project to do yourself and be create all sorts of interesting characters.

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  2. They're so adorable!! I wish I could paint... or draw... I'd settle for just being able to draw lol

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  3. Charming indeed. I'm off to have a look at her blog.

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  4. I'm totally stealing this idea for my kiddo. He'll be in heaven!

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  5. Such a great idea and incredibly cute!

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  6. These would be brilliant to do in school. So simple yet extremely effective.

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  7. Love these. And I have a certain husband who has a barrel of woodblock scraps that are just dying to be turned into something like this!

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  8. Oh my gosh, I NEED some of these. So cute! I wish I had the talent to create things like that - I really admire those who do!

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  9. How adorable! I should remember this when it's birthday time in this house

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  10. how lovely.wonderful.now ı m going to the blog to see all of them.

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  11. Oh, they're beautiful! It's so inspiring! I'm off searching for unused wood blocks...

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  12. Great find! I love these they're so cute and I love the style looks fab thanks for sharing.

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  13. does anyone know if these are available to buy?

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  14. Awesome!! What a wonderful idea for scraps and customizable presents.

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  15. Oh, how beautiful! I will do this soon, it will be fun.:)

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  16. This is so fun!! What a great idea!

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  17. What a great idea! I have an entire bag of blocks just like those and I had no idea what to do with them.

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  18. I love these. How much fun. I may have to purchase them for my grands. Thanks for sharing. I visit your blog often and really like your posts and comments. Thanks!

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  19. I am astounded. Absolutely fantastic!

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  20. I LOVE these, and made a little set of them myself when I was about 4. with crayons. so they haven't so much aged well... :-D

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  21. they are beautiful. sooo beautiful. :)

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