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Live slow and make art

Hello, I'm Mervi. I create playful art and illustrations, write and meditate a lot. I imagine a better world for everyone, where there's empathy and no need for charity. This is my digital meadow, unkempt and wild. Welcome!

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Making art and meditating can reduce stress hormones, build your resiliency and help you to come up with new ideas and solutions. This site is filled with resources and ideas to help you change your life and change the world.

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A colourful illustration of an oldschool pink television with two antennas on top of it and a picture of a mysterious night landscape on, plus some strange bubbly material in pink and black and blue and neon yellow and teal bubbling around it by Mervi Eskelinen

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Art process videos, tutorials, vlog, meditations and surprises

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A colourful illustration of a fox looking somewhere to distance towards back right, surrounded by strange organic shapes and bubbles in different colours by Mervi Eskelinen

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Art, lovely letters, creative prompts, meditations, zine and stuff

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An illustration of a brown owl with teal feathers on its chest surrounded by branches with green leaves on them in front a dark blue sky with white dot stars by Mervi Eskelinen
A photo of an open sketchbook spread with a drawing of a whimsical lamp fish with a lightbulb in the place of the usual “lamp” mouth open holding a book with “THE CAPITAL” and a dollar sign on the cover. On te first page, in the direction the fish is swimming, there’s a bit of metallic golden watercolour and on the second page dark blue and black watercolour by Mervi Eskelinen.
An artwork of a beautiful pale, unspecified Asian woman with black curly bob hair, looking straight at you somewhat unimpressed, wearing a dainty white top and has a live orange fox wrapped around her shoulders. Background is pale pink and there's a thin off white lining around the woman and the fox, and over everything there's a soft paper like texture. The drawing has a bit of a retro, maybe slightly art deco feel by Mervi Eskelinen
A mostly black and white simplified fashion style artwork of a beautiful pale woman with britght red lips, blue eyeshadow and red blush on cheecks, with lace looking doodly area and black ink style splashes around the neck and chest by Mervi Eskelinen
An artwork of a beautiful Black woman apparently not wearing anything on her upper body with hair made of exotic flowers and paradise birds looking straight at you with mouth slightly opened Mervi Emilia Eskelinen
A flat lay style illustration with a black cat sleeping relaxed surrounded by drawings, pens, pencils and oil pastels, a cup of tea and a Finnish cinnamon roll or korvapuusti, masking tape rolls, a pear and tangerine slices, a couple of photos, buttons, a pink roll of yarn, a cactus and some monstera plant leaves by Mervi Eskelinen

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Slow Notes

Little thoughts on art, meditation, life, journaling, business and marketing

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How to make time for art

Control, not protection

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Comic

This simple black and white webcomic deals with mundanity of life in my dry and sometimes poetic style.

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Magic Hand Illustration by Mervi Emilia EskelinenIllustration of a hand from which pulsing and blinking stars and planets emerge.

Remember to breathe

Life is a messy mess and what other people do is out of your control. Good news is, you can break the conventions and craft a meaningful, mindful, slow life. Choose to make the change, and remember to breathe!

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