Øivind Sigvart Jorfald (born 8 September 1950) is a Norwegian

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

, visual artist,

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...

and

animator An animator is an artist who creates multiple images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, and video gam ...

, based in Asker. Øivind S. Jorfald mainly works in hand coloured engravings, lithography and

drawing Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, ...

s/ watercolor paintings. His pictures are mostly small and of a humorous nature. The sea and women are repeating motifs in his pictures. He has also illustrated a number of books, mostly children's books. Øivind Jorfald has also made a number of

animated film Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...

s, including '' Steinen'', for which he won an Amanda Award in 1990. In 1981, he released the book ''Bygging av flaskeskuter''.

External links

Øivind S. Jorfald's CV at the Kunstnernes informasjonskontor

Hebbe Lille's Gallery, with a number of examples of Øivind S. Jorfald's work

Øivind Jorfald's activity as an animator
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jorfald Oivind S. Norwegian male artists Norwegian animators Norwegian animated film directors Norwegian children's book illustrators 20th-century Norwegian painters 21st-century Norwegian painters 1950 births Living people 20th-century Norwegian male artists 21st-century Norwegian male artists