Author Archives: TangledPen

My blog is moving!

Hi everyone! Thank you for following along even though I neglected this blog for quite some time now. I am posting a lot of my current work over on Instagram, so if you use Instagram, just hop on over and you will see more pictures for sure 🙂 Since my little lettering and illustration business […]

How to paint a galaxy with watercolors

If you ever wondered How to paint a galaxy with watercolors, then you might want to look at the following pictures 🙂 I had painted a few of such galaxies and posted some of them on instagram. It seemed that they were liked a lot, so here you go, a little insight. There are, of […]

Be well this Holiday Season…

…and have a Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you all for reading along and take the time to check what’s new on my blog. I appreciate it so much. I’m trying to write more letters to friends and family again, so in the evenings, once the kids are in bed and the kitchen is clean, I take […]

Something different

Hi everyone, Here comes a different kind of post: My children (12 and 7) like to draw and paint as well (and fold origami and paper airplanes among other things :)) Recently they had a fundraiser in school where both of them didn’t do well (selling food items that we are not really fond of […]

Inspired by Fall

It’s so beautiful these days out here in the country! We were so lucky to have pleasant temperatures (and still have) during the past few weeks. It’s such a joy to walk through the backyard and take it all in. It’s hard to keep my hands off of all those colorful leaves and awesome seedpods… […]

Fall is here as well as a new post – finally ;)

Hi everyone, I’m on my way to post regularly again (or at least that’s my plan ;)) We moved back to Indiana this past Summer after living in Sweden for three years. It took some time to readjust, but it seems that everyone has settled now. Our kids had very different feelings about this move […]

My art journal

…is finally getting some attention again lately (not so true for my blog :)) As I’m still struggling to post here as well as on my Facebook page, I keep this short, but add more pictures (it’s said they speak more anyway ;)) I hope you enjoy these pages. Please let me know what you think. Thank […]

Hearts in green and pink

In honor of Valentine’s Day and just because one can’t go wrong with them: Enjoy some of the hearts I painted lately. (and let me know which is your favorite :)) …as always: Thank you so much for stopping by! ❤ Jana

Green on grey days

When typing the title for this post I was suddenly uncertain of the spelling for ‘grey’… turns out both ‘gray’ and ‘grey’ are used (if you like to read about it: here is an interesting wiki article) It has been little to no sunshine around here in January, so I needed a little bit of […]

Happy New Year

Wishing you all a very happy new year – I hope it will be full of color and health 🙂 Thank you all for stopping by! Your visit is very much appreciated, as always. Cheers, Jana