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.

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