Days #1 .. #30 all together

All paintings of January together in the same picture:

Days #28 .. 30

I've been too lazy to post and will now post several same time. So this post is the last post for the January daily painting challenge.

 #30

"Giralda", size:small, oil on canvas

This bright building is the Cathedral of Seville and the high tower is called Giralda. You can climb stairs up to the tower. Giralda shows in the sky line always higher than any other building because it was a long ago decided that no building can be built higher than this pretty tower. In the night sky it shows well. Painted from my own photo reference.

#29

"Candle Bambi", size: small, oil on canvas

#28

"Sunset", size: small, oil on canvas

Day #27 - Nocturne Aspen

Painted these nocturne tree trunks last night from studio window. Saw an orange/dark purple/smoky color sky behind the trees and wanted to try to paint them. Had window open and used a small light source to see a little bit to mix colors and canvas. There is still lot to learn  when painting nocturne scenes.

Day #27 (out of 30 days) Nocturne Aspen

 

size: small, oil on black gesso paper

Day #26 - Forest Plein Air

I went to paint plein air into a forest on Sunday. I had a plan to paint this forest more but I might leave it so far to a single plein air only due to a difficult subject: ice. You will see ice better in the following photos below.

Day #26 Forest Plein Air

The temperature was near 0 °C so it was nice outside. No sunshine. I did notice the brushes were moving quite tough because of cold. The surface is double oil primed canvas so that helped some.

20x25 cm, oil on canvas

Location photos:

Frozen water dropping down the cliff.

My pet was in the forest too for a brief moment. She loves forest, she didn't complain at all. :-)

Days #22 .. #25 - Studies of Tree Trunks with Snow

These painting studies are small size and painted on wood. I post them at the same time because won't have time the next few days.

I'm determined to learn to paint snow one day :-))

Day #25

 

 

Day #24

  

Day #23

 

 

Day #22

 

Day #21 - Dragon

Day #21 "Dragon"

22x15 cm, (8.5x6 in)
 oil on wood

I bought this little dragon from a small store near the railway station Atocha, in Madrid. I saw several different kind of dragons in that store window and picked the most gorgeous looking. :) When I left the store I felt I had ruined the store window by taking the best dragon away .. they only had one of this.

There is more challenge to this one to paint than it first looks.

Day #20 - My Cat

Day #20 "My Bengal Cat"

12x14 cm (about 5x5.5 in)

 oil on wood

A small painting of my Bengal cat. She lays down to pose for me just perfectly without moving hardly any. Such a good model! :)

Day #19 - Juanjo

Day #19 "Juanjo"

The original reference photograph is taken in Seville, Spain (barrio de Triana) a couple of years ago. This view is a typical street in Seville.

In this painting I was after color harmony and interesting greys mixed with ochre to get warmer street look. Always wanted to paint the streets of Seville after living there one year earlier in my life.

30x20 cm, (about 10.5x8.5 in)

oil on wood

Days #15 .. #18

 More experimenting with winter scenes. These are plein airs and photo reference paintings.

Day #18 "River"

Experimenting different colors for a winter scene.

17x20 cm, oil on wood

Day #17 "A scene to the sea in Helsinki"

Small rocky islands in the sea. Some of them have small buildings on them. I don't know what is their purpose, maybe they are summer cottages.

20x15 cm, oil on gessoed paper

Day #16 "Thick Snow - Plein Air"

 An other snow plein air in the garden. Just branches that are hanging over the fence. My fingers got quite frozen after this 2 hour plein air although the weather in general was pleasant and quite warm.

22x22 cm, (8.5x8.5 in)

oil on wood

Day #15 "Trees"

Painted from a photo reference. This painting might need more color. I used mostly just white and blues. I could add some snow on the black distant trees on the left hand side. I did add snow to the right hand side but forgot the left ones without in a hurry. I think this would be an ok painting to keep if I could get more looseness with brush strokes somehow. (Maybe color will do it?)

22x15 cm, (8.5x6 in)

 oil on wood

Day #12 .. 14 Color Studies after Velazquez

The following are color studies after Velazquez. Reds show a bit too red but there is only one layer of paint so far so might later go and adjust by adding more layers. Wood almost requires it, in my opinion.

Day #14 Velazquez 3

 15x22 cm, oil on wood

Day #13 Velazquez 2

22x15 cm, oil on wood

Day #12 Velazquez 1

 this man in the painting is his father-in-law

 15x10 cm (about 6x4 in)

I'm thinking of painting a big copy of the original 'Los Borrachos' and it includes these faces. I recently saw the original painting in Prado, Madrid, and purchased a big book of Velazquez paintings.

Day #10 - Color Study

 Painting #10 of the 30 paintings in January

"Color Study of an Old Man"
6x7 cm, 2.5x3 in
oil on gessoed paper

Day #6 ... #9 - Snow Studies

Day #7  "Rock Under Snow"

 
Miniature size, oil on gessoed hard board
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Day #8  "Snow Bank"

Miniature size, oil on gessoed hard board
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Day #9  "Great Spotted Woodpecker"

 Miniature size, oil on gessoed hard board
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Day #6  "Snow Study 1"

Miniature size, oil on gessoed hard board
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Day #5 Barn - Aitta

Day #5  "Aitta"

22x15 cm, (8.5x6 in) oil on wood

Below is a reference photo I took a year ago. These barns are located here in a museum area on an island. They have a cute form and are tempting to paint but they are in the forest so there never is much light.

Day #4 - Plein Air I

Day #4 "Plein Air I - Snowy Branches"

14x11 cm

oil on gessoed paper

The weather is loco here right now, one day snow melts away, the next day it's cold again and snowing. Mostly we have snow on the ground. This is an hour plein air in the garden. Lovely weather outside, not too cold but fresh and pretty with snow - perfect to paint snow plein air.

Day #3 - Hyasintti

Day #3 - Hyasintti

22x15 cm, (8.5x6 in)

oil on wood

This is my daily painting effort for today, didn't have time to go any further. The painting itself is a little bit bigger but needs to be continued later, there are more flowers around as you can see the drawing. This is a typical Christmas time flower around here.

Day #2 - Christmas Ball

Day #2 "Christmas Ball"

 22x15 cm, (8.5x6 in)

 oil on wood

Trying out a new (new to me) painting method that I learned recently. While painting I was using the Christmas tree as a reference. Logical this time of the year. :)

Day #1 Santa's Hat - Tonttulakki

 January 2015 Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days

Day #1  "Santa's Hat"

12x14 cm (about 5x5.5 in)

oil on canvas

Starting the first day with a simple and easy subject. :)
Spent about half an hour with this sketch.