Painting stone critters

A little silliness, but hopefully conjuring a bit of happiness to random people. So, I’ve been painting some little stone critters that I will spread around into the nearby forest trails. The little beings are free to take or just marvel. I used my new bling bling Coliro water colors to paint some veins or…

Social distancing and art

Weird times. Same as in most countries, Finland is also mostly sticking to home. In case you happen to have more free time while practicing social distancing, then here is my list on art related things on how to spend time: Consume & chill Watch movies / shows Watch Netflix ‘Art & Design’ movies/documents, e.g….

The year of painting practices and studying

So, whats going on. I still have that one belle arti panel to finish but I have the idea somewhat ready on the topic and composition what I want to paint. It is inspired by the coming summer and more sunny and longer days after each passed day. Otherwise I’ve been mainly doing some watercolor…

Color studies (12.4. – 25.5.2019)

The color study course was theoretical but very practical. We did a lot of color study assignments with the purchased Color-aid deck of 220 swatches of colors. We did not paint during the course but studied colors and cut the swatches for the assignments. The exercises were more or less a success.. (as you can…

Photography

Finally finished this one photography assignment. Motive, motif (?), photographs, multiple images combining some form, theme or other idea. Rather than having any specific form, I wanted to incorporate as theme nature, green with bright light. First my idea was to shoot some leaves in bright natural light but having that light condition when at…