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.

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

Xmas Vacation

Happy New Year! I was on my christmas vacation and managed to paint 6 new pieces. Here is one of them. It was nice that there were a lot of snow in northern parts of the Finland.
I post more pictures later on. Now i gotta go to paint some more! :)

Unicorn

Unicorn - Video
Coming soon..

The Boy - quick sketch

http://www.anttirautiola.fi/video.html
Check it out!

Frosted River

Oil on linen canvas
11 x 18 inches, 27 x 46 cm
2008

It was a bit rainy today, but i wanted to paint this before all the snow is gone.
I would have taken this propably a bit further, but it became so dark that found it difficult to even get out of the forest.
It sure was fun :D

Portrait Of The Girl Video Now Available

Its now available on my homepage. Under videos :)

Video

Portrait Of The Girl

I just wrapped up shooting my first alla prima oil painting video.
Coming very soon.

Nocturne: First Snow

Every plein air painter seems to be doing nocturnes, so I tought whatta hey, lets give it a shot.
This is painted in a total darkness only in the light of the headlamp. It was a very nice experience and luckily it rained some snow today and it enhanced the overall brilliance of the scenery.

Rolling River

Oil on linen canvas

New Plein-Aires

A Small Ditch



The Old Log


The Leaning Log


These are all painted in plein air. In the first two the raining was really intense, but my new pochade box hold the canvas dry quite nicely.
All are Oil on linen canvas.

The Big Wave

I painted these waves in Porkkala, Finland, just before it got too stormy.
It was a very windy day and the reason i chose to paint in there was of course - the big waves.
I waited a few weeks to have the windiest day possible. Easel fell down a few times, rain soaked the canvas, but i sure had fun. :)

The Big Wave
Oil on linen canvas