The missing piece

The missing Piece
Oil on linen canvas, 2009
27 x 50 cm


My family left to the cabin so i have been painting all day long.
In the morning i was doing some plein air painting
and here is the second one painted in the studio. :D
I probably soften a few edges tomorrow.

Wonderboy

"Wonderboy"

Oil on linen canvas, 2009
24 x 35 cm

I was virtually listening only one song while painting this.
Song was Tenacious D´s Wonderboy.

Well he surely is the wonderboy for me. :D

In her thoughts

"In her thoughs"
Oil on linen canvas, 2009

This started out as an sketch of my dear wife, i just wanted to paint somewhat the same way,
that i assume that John Singer Sargent painted.
Well this is a very humble effort compared to his mad skills. :D

Drifting clouds

Drifting clouds
Oil on linen canvas, 2009

Relaxed boy

Relaxed boy, 2009
Oil on linen canvas.

This is the first time my son has ever posed for me. :)
He was a super good model, changed the postion like every minute or so to keep me focused on the task. :D
Total painting for this sketch was about 15 minutes.
After that was of course his turn to paint with acrylics.
We had really super fun painting together.

Small brook

My kids took a nap in the car, so i drove right next to this lovely little brook nearby.
I spent about 45 minutes on this spot before they woke up.
I am kind a glad that i stopped painting at this stage,
where there still are a lot of bold strokes clearly stated.

"Small brook"
Oil on linen canvas, 2009
21 x 34 cm

Boy getting dressed

Boy getting dressed
Oil on canvas, 2009

The Shore at Eira, Helsinki.

It was a beautiful day today. I had super fun painting on the shore.
:)

New stuff

The Sunken Tree


Trees in the sunset (sketch)

This was kind of results of speed painting. Half on hour on the spot.
I would have gone a bit earlier, but i had to put my kids to bed :)

The Big Machine

This was actually done on paper, because i ran out of canvases.

These are from the last weeks plein air session.
I am the guy on the left. Mauri is the gentleman on the right.


Work in progress..
We had an new guest star with us. You can see Arto Isotalo working in the background.
Thank you Arto for joining us on this rainy day. Lets do it again soon! :D
Btw, check out Artos blog from my links.
http://artoisotalo.blogspot.com/

Two new plein air´s

Two new plein air sketches from nearby forest. :D

Breakfast

Breakfast
Oil on linen canvas, 2009



And here is some work in progress shots

And two close ups.

Trip to Romania

I just came back from the beautiful Romania.
Mountains were really impressive and i could have stayed there a few days longer.
People were really polite and very nice to me. Thanks to my new friends Michail and Dragos for making the trip to the mountain Sinaia possible. Food was also a real bargain and try to seek out those places in which they serve real traditional romanian food. Its definately worth to try.
Weather was a bit harsh for plein air painting, snowblizard on the mountains was a bit of suprise :)
I managed to get two plein air paintings done and here is a few tourist shots aswell. I also add a few pictures i took on the National Museum of Art of Romania. Definately a place to visit.

Enjoy.

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.