Sleeping boy

"Sleeping boy"
Oil on linen, 2009

Painting plein air with my sisters children

We had this super idea to paint with my sisters elder children.
I usually have 2 extra easels in my car, but i had taken those out to make extra room.
Well no worries i just taped these cardboards on to the piece of wood and we were ready to go. These worked out really good when we sticked them to the snow. I also forgot my extra palette somewhere so we had to share mine.



Here is what Helmi painted.



Here Henri's painting. After he was finished he found what we think is a meteor. :)



I did this.

Blue shadows

Blue Shadows
Oil on linen canvas, 2009

Old tree

I am on vacation this week and i am hoping to paint more soon..

Magazine and fruits

Magazine and fruits
30 x 70 cm
Oil on linen canvas, 2009


Its been a busy day today. :)
After work we did an plein air paintings with my friend, Mauri
and after the kids went to bed, I managed to paint this also.

Here is some work-in-progress shots.
As you can see i like to start from a one point and carry out from there.
In the third shot you can see a smiley face that i painted for my dear wife.
Too bad i had to paint over it.
Cheers!

New Toy

"New Toy"

50 x 30 cm
Oil on linen canvas, 2009

Pirates d'air!

Pirates d'air!
40 x 60 cm, Linen canvas
2009


This balloon is actually my sons birthday present :)
I can not believe my little tarzan is four allready..
Sorry about the bad quality photo. I´ll take a better picture when i find some batteries for my camera :D

I always have the same palette for everything i paint.
Here is some additional info aswell:

Oil Paints: (Rembrants and Van Cochs)
white (whatever is on sale)
Lemon yellow
Cadmium red
Yellow ochre light
Transparent oxide red/
Viridian
Ultramarine blue deep

Premixed colors:
Light blue - Which is ultramarine+white with a touch of red
Black - Transparent oxide red + ultramarine

Brushes:
Langnickel 5590 series
Also a few cheap bristles and the really big ones are from hardware store

Medium used:
Walnut Oil

2 new plein air sketches

Paintings are quite small, put i uploaded the images in super size.
Enjoy.

New paintings

Whooe! Its been a busy day, i managed to paint these two today.

First one is painted in the life painting class that i am attending. It was amazing, as always, and i think we all learned a lot. This took about 4 hours to complete.
Second one is painted after that and it is also painted in alla prima style.

Lipking workshop pics

Stunning work-in-progress shots.

http://artstudiosecrets.com/2009/04/02/lipking-workshop-pics/

News

I came across these interesting news. Check it out.

Katie Swatland is doing these monthly on-line lessons with the master painter Richard Schmid.
"unlimited access to high-resolution images of paintings and demonstrations" :D
Seems VERY interesting.
LEARNING FROM RICHARD SCHMID


The Art Renewal Center is announced the winners for 2008-2009
Amazing work.
This year's Best in Show: Hiroshi Furuyoshi
WINNERS

Old Oak

Old Oak
Oil on linen canvas
23 x 41cm 2009

Snow is melting very fast here in southern Finland.
This might be the last snow painting from this winter.
Hopefully i will have time to paint after work during the week :)

Aquarel

Aquarel

Oil on linen canvas, 2009

Cold Stream

Cold Stream
Oil on linen canvas, 2009

It was a cloudy, but beautiful day today and almost warm enough to paint without gloves.

Saturday´s plein air

In the studio

"Pauliina"
2009 Oil on canvas

Today i had a painting session with my friends at the studio.
It was really cool to paint within a group for a change.
First we did, like an hour or so, an fast 1-3minute sketches and then we fixed the pose and got serious, sort of speak.
We had a lot of fun and I hope everyone learned a lot. I sure did. :D
Super thanks to everyone who participated.

2 New paintings

"Look, foam!"
2009 Oil on canvas


"Sleepy"

2009 Oil on canvas

A lot of snow - finally :D

"Tucked in"
21x41 cm
Oil on canvas
2009

"Under the bridge"
25x58cm
Oil on canvas
2009

The second one is painted today and we had a great trip with my friend, Mauri.
You can see a glimpse of him in this work-in-progress shot.
We started to paint when it was raining and soon the rain turned into a snow. I also had a temporary breakdown on my easel, so i finished the painting by having it resting on the snow.
It was a bit weird experiment, but we sure had fun!

The Button

The Button

Oil on canvas 37x26cm
2009

This was a very challenging painting to do. Because I intentionally made it quite high key to have a gentle feeling into it. Its made from a photo, my angels dont stay still more than few seconds at a time :D

New stuff

SnowBlizard
Floating Ice
Fire In The Oven
Frozen Ditch
Frozen River