Friday, February 19, 2016

Plein air Tuesday

Plein air Tuesday with sun shine

Has a wonderful plein air trip to an island that is mostly a museum area.
Buildings are brought there from different areas but people can walk around the island as they wish. Wonderful place to paint.
15x22 cm, oil on board
on location at Seurasaari, Helsinki

the 2nd plen air of the day
 sun shine in the afternoon
Old buildings at the museum area
Church at the museum area

Monday, February 15, 2016

Plein Air Saturday

Plein Air Saturday

 We had a wonderful change for cloudy weather yesterday. That means: a plein air day!

Below some photos from the location
& painting company:

I will not wipe out this plein air, it's a keeper. Might paint it a little more but won't change the light:
 

I wanted to cover myself a little bit from wind so I found a good place in between the boats to set my easel and yet getting suntan. My original plan was to paint snow covered boats in this harbor but I didn't find a good view to them and wanted to paint something simple and study light/shadows mainly:


When I was done with the 1st painting my painting company, Bengal cat, came back from her walk:
 

Here she's on a boat with her endless curiosity:



This is the view I would have painted if I didn't have Bengal cat along with me. She needs attention and she is getting that! Part of these plain air trips is to take her out to walk in a different environment than the park near home.
 

 

For the second plein air I changed the location a little bit,
still the same harbor:



There is a Bengal cat in the photo:
 

She feels a need to stick herself into every little rabbit/mouse hole she possibly can find. She was in there so that I could only see her nose but in the photo coming out:

She likes roots, walking over fallen tree trunks and rocks like a good leopard should:

 People passing by said she looks so happy being outside and she is.

A few more shots from Saturday: 

 


Cat on the ice. She did fall to the sea, but got wet the front paws only, at that point we left, she needed to get paws dry quickly. Without cat along this would have been my painting scene, but I can return here any day when there is sunshine of course.
Checking out the approaching snow storm.
~ The End ~

Saturday, February 6, 2016

2016 Daily Paintings #34 - Portrait 4

Portrait4

Quick Boug. study again. without much measuring.
I guess I need to start measuring these studies in order to get some look alike.
 
"Another Boug. study", sze: small, oil on cotton canvas

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

2016 Daily Paintings #33 - Portrait 3

Portrait 3

"II color study sketch after Boug."
oil on canvas paper, miniature size

 

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Monday, February 1, 2016

2016 Daily Paintings #31 - Portrait 1

I have a portrait workshop coming up soon, in four months ;)  so I decided I need practice with portraits  - lots of practice -  otherwise I'll will be in trouble in class.
In the painting below the main focus is in her face and that's where I worked the most but I might give an other pass for the neck.
Portrait 1

oil on canvas paper, 7x6in (18x15 cm)

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Thursday, January 28, 2016

January 2016 Daily Paintings #27 .. #28 - Park next to my place

January 2016 Daily Paintings #27 ... #28

Park next to my place

oil on canvas paper, size small

oil on canvas paper, size also small

Maybe got the values too dark!

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Monday, January 25, 2016

Sunday, January 24, 2016

January 2016 Daily Paintings #24 - Jardines de Murillo (detail 2)

January 2016 Daily Paintings #24

Gardens of Murillo - Jardines de Murillo
(detail 2)


Another one from the Murillo gardens. Need to fix more straight those
pillars.

My camera Olympus Pen is making all the photos too blue. :(

Saturday, January 23, 2016

January 2016 Daily Paintings #23 - Metallic paints

January 2016 Daily Paintings #23

Metallic paints

On one of my plein air trips last summer I got a set of metallic paints by Williamsburg as a present and wanted to try them. I wanted to try how to paint snow with these colors. They are maybe more suitable for city scapes or similar.



oil colors on gessoed card board




metallic colors
 

Friday, January 22, 2016

January 2016 Daily Paintings #22 - Jardines de Murillo (detail 1)

January 2016 Daily Paintings #22

Gardens of Murillo - Jardines de Murillo
(detail 1)

Today's daily painting is painted from a photo I took some years ago in Jardines de Murillo, Seville, Spain. Always wanted to paint the garden because it's so picturesque. Glad I got chance now with daily paintings. Might need some fixing still but I post already what I got done today.


22x15 cm, oil on wood