Boat study
20x30 cm, oil on roma paper (with gesso)
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Monday, June 22, 2015
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.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
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.
Monday, June 8, 2015
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
Friday, January 30, 2015
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.
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
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! :)
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.
Experimenting different colors for a winter scene.
17x20 cm, oil on wood
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
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.
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 woodDay #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