Fall 2015 Paintings #3 - Porkkala Plein Air

Fall 2015 Paintings #3

Porkkala - plein air

22x15cm, 8.5x6 in, oil on wood - plein air

Fall 2015 Paintings #2 - Sea Urchins & Scallop

Fall 2015 Paintings #2

Sea Urchins & Scallop

22x15 cm, oil on wood - daily painting

Fall 2015 Paintings #1 - Sea Shell

Fall 2015 Paintings #1

Sea Shell

22x15 cm, 8.5x6 in, oil on wood - daily painting

Boat study

Boat study

20x30 cm, oil on roma paper (with gesso)

Midsummer Pleinair 2015

Midsummer Pleinair 2015 at Vihti lake.

Plein air done at midnight 24 o'clock.

Midnight sun at 23 o'clock.

Midnight glow on the tree tops and reflections.

At 2 am.

Sailboat

Sailboat

"Sailboat", 20x30 cm, oil on gessoed canson

My boat training continues. In this picture I am doubting if composition of mast works well. To me it looks like too straight line. Will fix it when I figure out what to do about it.

Boat - plein air

Boat painting

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

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

Daily Paintings February #2

#2 - "Citrus"

"Citrus", 22x15 cm, oil on wood

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.