Daily Paintings

Monday, June 8, 2015

Boat - plein air

Boat painting

"Boat in Suomenlinna - plein air", 25x35 cm, oil on wood

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Plein Air Germany - Berlin Brandenburg 2015

Some paitnings from my plein air trip to Germany, Brandenburg (close to Berlin) in May, 2015.

sheep studies, oil on canvas

sheep, oil on gessoed roma

chicken, oil on gessoed canson

sheep - my patient models

Carwitz, I made quickly in three hours a small study of the view and then the bigger sketch. Want to finish the bigger one still.

a barn, oil on wood

all together

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Daily Paintings February #2

#2 - "Citrus"

"Citrus", 22x15 cm, oil on wood

Friday, January 30, 2015

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

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

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

Monday, January 26, 2015

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. :-)

Thursday, January 22, 2015

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.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

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! :)

Monday, January 19, 2015

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

Sunday, January 18, 2015

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

Friday, January 16, 2015

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.