Historierummet is a podcast made by Swedish childrens radio, part of Swedish public service radio. It is a very popular podcast portraing the lifes of famous historical figures and the time they lived in. I started making the portraits as a cover image for the podcast already when I was working at the Childrens radio, and I have continued to make them ever since. It is now well over a hundred portrait.
I very much enjoy making them and I love working with the Childrens radio, they are the best people and so dedicated to what they do and to the quality in every detail. For each portrait there is a process where I gather referense pictures and make sketches to figure out how they looked. I read the script and try to understand what kind of a person they were and how I like to portray them. I use mixed media techniques to make the images digitally, with watercolour backgrounds and drawings on paper.
The podcast is in swedish, and if you want to listen you find it here.
