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.

Portrait of Marisa

"Portrait of Marisa", 24×30 cm, oil on canvas
(1st varnish layer added)

Life model about 68 hours of painting, a two-week-pose

You can see the painting process starting with drawing and transfer to canvas below:

This portrait was a lot of work and so much patience and long hours for Marisa to pose. We had excellent teaching, demos & lots of patience our teacher with us. ;)

The portrait above is the first life model portrait I've done.

Snowman

Every year in the winter time I make a snowman of snow and paint it. When making a snowman I need to wait for a perfect snow conditions so that the air and snow are humid enough to able the snow flakes to stick together and form a ball. ;)

The painting can be a plein air in the garden/at the terrace or painted through the window depending of how cold it is outside. I also need to think what kind of a hat to put to the snowman. This year's hat is pretty much chosen so that's a good thing.

Here is last year's snowman:

"Snowman", 24x33 cm, oil on double oil primed canvas

Pine Cone

"Pine Cone"

minuature oil painting on gessoed paper

# 24 Mystical Winter Forest

"Mystical Winter Forest"

30x40 cm, oil on wood, still working on this one!

 (wip - not quite finished yet)

Snowy Tree - private collection

"Snowy Tree" - private collection

(not for sale)

Portrait Study of Grego - wip

"Portrait Study of Grego - wip"

15x22 cm, oil on wood (wip)

 Have been doing a few studies to practice for the coming portrait workshop. This study is painted from a photograph and it still is very much a wip, on it's first stage. I might continue this one later by working on variation of  darks and rendering the lights. This painting has a toned background.

Sunset

"Sunset"

Sunset, about 10x10 cm, oil pastels

#23 A Bell from Venice

"A Bell from Venice"

More bells :) This is a painting from earlier this year. I bought this bell from the Cathedral di San Marco in Venice.

10 x 15 cm, oil on canvas paper

#22 Bell and Christmas Flower

"Bell and Christmas Flower"

22x15 cm, oil on wood

#21 Three Bells

"Three Bells"

20x30 cm, oil on wood

#20 Bell

"Bell"

Cad Yellow Deep Oil Tube

"Cad Yellow Deep Oil Tube"

This little daily painting is painted on a gessoed paper. It is my Michael Harding Cad Yellow Deep oil tube which I brought from a plein air painting trip to Italy, Rome, where I can find good quality paints and art stores. Earlier this year I participated a daily painting challenge and wanted to try to paint quickly different things and materials with oils. The photo is taken late at night so the lightning isn't the best possible.

# 18 Apple Tree

"Apple Tree"

22x27 cm, oil on canvas

I painted this apple tree study from our kitchen window last winter. She is sleeping thru the winter with snow on the branches.

#17 Lion at Santa Croce

"Lion at Santa Croce"

12x15 cm, oil on canvas paper

This is a small grisalle painting of a lion standing at the Piazza Santa Croce, Florence, Italy guarding the statue of Dante.