The Project

How the book was born

Christoffer

One day during meditation in the hindu monastery Madhuvan somewhere in the Costa Rican jungle an idea came to us – we should write a book about the dasavatara!

Swami & Kaisa

We presented the idea to Madhuvan’s oldest monk. He thought it to be a good idea and promised to help us.

avatars

So we started reading about the different avatars and tried to figure out what they were all about.

sketchbook

And once we kind of got it we started sketching.

sketching

…and writing

Kaisa

…and sketching.

Kaisa

At some point we felt like we had a nice story going…

Kaisa drawing

so Kaisa started drawing.

Kaisa

And drawing…

Kaisa

…and drawing.

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Christoffer on the other hand went shopping for old books.

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As well as came up with all kinds of crazy side projects. Like a 7″ record.

Christoffer with painting

And a collection of paintings.

stamps

As well as an alphabet in postage stamps.

Kaisa

All while Kaisa kept drawing.

Christoffer

At some point Christoffer also began designing.

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Which meant he made all of our friends do the hard work for him.

Kaisa on books

But slowly the book progressed.

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And we even did a test sheet at the local printing house.

Kaisa

Still there was a lot to be done, so Kaisa kept on drawing, Tuomas kept on coloring, Ken kept on lettering, Katri kept on singing.

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And Christoffer kept on shopping.

waving goodbye

But then came the day when the book was all done and sent to the printing house.

Kaisa and Christoffer with book

And in less than four weeks it was born. Hooray!!!

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That was the story of our latest book so far. We hope you enjoyed the lesson.

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