New sketch and sundays painting session

Sketch of my son, Nooa.
I repainted the face about 6 times. Its just so hard to get the drawing right sometimes.



Here are some shots from sundays painting session.
We were painting live model at our studio, with my super cool painting buddies.
Silver Saaremäel and Jussi Tarvainen

Luis Lazcano and Juhani Karlsson discussing about drawing techniques.

Kaija was doing some awesome set of drawings and i think we all envy her design skills. :)

Arto Isotalo with Kaija&Silver on the background

Team photo. I am the guy with the 4 horns.


"Red"

Thanks to you guys for joining in on sunday. It was super cool and we have to do it again soon!

Unicorn - Timelapse video

Video should appear shortly

IN HERE

I almost lost the whole video in a hard drive crash, but i managed to salvage the video.
Soundtrack was beyond repair, but feel free to ask any questions you may have.
I hope you like it.

True Love

"True Love"
Oil on linen canvas, 25 x 45 cm.


Here is a few wip pictures from the process.
I chose to go a bit more sketchy style with the background this time. Its fun to experiment.

Clouds

"God Lives There"

Oil on linen canvas, 40x55 cm

I tough to train my ability to see sensitive color changes.
Painting clouds and snow is really good way to see more color.
Mixing all those colors for the clouds was fun!

I don't think they saw us

"I don't think they saw us"
Oil on linen canvas, 25 x 45 cm

These dolls are beautifully designed and handmade by my friend Kaija.
You can easily buy these online :)
Here is the direct link:

www.etsy.com

Here is a work in progress shot from my studio, also known as the living room. :)

Two plein air paintings from today

"Stones"

"Resting tree"

Its been an another great painting day. These two were painted in the afternoon in Sipoo.
Its a natural reserve area. Really beautiful place in every way.

Values,values and once more values

Some of you guys have asked me about values and their part in the painting
I think the values are THE MOST important part of any painting. Then comes the drawing(includes edges) and then the color.
I made this sketch today and tried to incorporate only 3 values in this one to have more kick into this painting.



"Rocks"

Black and white version

Posterized 3 shade black and white

Tugboat

"Protector"


What an beautifull day it was today. We were in Helsinki to paint some tugboats.
Super cool!

A lot of stuff

"Daydream"

"Book of colors"


"Drifting log"


I have been painting like crazy again.

I finished the first one today. It took basically 3 nights to paint. its made from reference photo i took back at the summer cabin.

Second one is just a quick 2 hour sketch, I was facinated by all that blueness in the kids room the other day and i took a reference photo. When i took it i had to memorize few of the important colors (mostly those greens in the shadows),which were super necessary so i could get this going on a right direction.

Third one is painted yesterday, it was really a great weather. Sadly the sun effect turned out to be a bit mellow in this one. Other than that it was great to be there.

We have also been painting with the kids. Here is few pictures from that.
Its amazing to watch kids to paint. Definately a learning experience and super fun, and messy of course. :)

New paintings

"Tipsu"
Oil on linen canvas, 2009




"Daisies"
Oil on linen canvas, 2009



Mauri and Arto painting.


I am back from my summer vacation and its good to be home :)
I just finished the first one.. Second one is painted yesterday.
We had a painting trip with my buddies Mauri and Arto. In this shot you can see how we are hiding from the rain under the bridge.

Flowers

I am on my summer holiday and i have been mostly just goofing off with the kids.
Here is one small flower painting from life. It is painted very early in the morning.
I woke up like 5 am to do this.

Lets see if can manage to upload this with my mobile phone..

Arrows

"Arrows"
Oil on canvas, 2009
27 x 60 cm


And now for a something completely different.
This is really something i have never done before. I only now come to realise that this combines my other passion, animation with painting.
I have been reading a lot of Norman Rockwell books and that is apparently, unconsciously, affecting me.
Well obviously :)

What do you think about it?

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.
:)