Oslo illustration trip, or Sandra and AnneM eat and look at stuff.

Two weeks ago my illustrator pal, Sandra, suggested a trip to Oslo to see some gallery shows and check out the childrensbook festival that was set to happen 17. to the 19. of September. Luckily the tickets to Oslo were pretty cheap, so we took that as a sign and went!

 

We ate at Mathallen two of the three days we had at our disposal... those pies were delicious!! We also got to go to Lille Saigon for pho and eat ramen in the park! It makes me almost wish I lived in Oslo, the food they have available is amazing! Yum!

 

There was a storm that we had been warned against... tho in my opinion it wasn't that bad. The rain was warm, the tempearture was comfortable and there was no wind. It was perfect weather to spend sitting at a café and drawing people hiding under their umbrellas. :^) (Note: I live by the ocean in the north. Wind is almost constant and the rain is alway cold and blowing sideways!)

 

We also got to visit a couple of galleries... tho our plan of going to the childrensbook festival kinda fell though, since most of it was aimed at children and we kept missing the few panels aimed at adults. Oh well! The ones we did visit was Grafill's galley, where one of our old classmates, Anette Oseng, had an image displayed (so cool!) and we got to see Tegnerforbundet's cartoon show where I bought Hundedagar by Anja Dahle Øverbye. Additionally, we went and checked out Blank Space for awesome prints, tho no life-drawing (so unfortunate!), the Norwegian National Gallery and Torso, an art supply shop at Vulkan.

 

 As a nice ending to the trip we met up with our online hangout group (KETSJUP) and had a live hangout at TGI Friday (one of the few places that would let my 21 year old friend in) and some drinks! Afterwards we got a tour of Gimpville's offices where one of our hangout friends work :^D Amazing! It gave us the best view of the Freia sign to date and we got to see where the fancy people work at haha ;^)

Thanks to Sandra's brother for a free place to sleep and her other borthers for a good time had! + bonus thanks to the wife of one of her brothers who made amazing thai food for us...! Seriously, I was afraid I'd have to be rolled on to the plane!

x AnneM