Winter plein airs

"Sipoo Church"
Oil on panel 2012

Almost finished stage of the church.

"Snow river"
Oil on panel, 2012
Beginning stages of the river painting.

Sunlit

"Sunlit"

73 x 48 cm
Oil on linen canvas
2012

I have been busy doing portraits and of course animation related work as well.
I wanted to paint something with big brushes. It was super fun to paint this sunlit scene!

First paintings of 2012

"White shirt"
2012

"Princess in pink"
2012

Here is a couple of new paintings that I just finished.
I hope you like them!
Cheers!

Sunny day II

"Sunny day II"
38 x 62 cm
Oil on linen canvas
2011

Sunny day & sketch of my younger son

"Sunny day"
46 x 72 cm
Oil on linen canvas, 2011

Its a snow blizzard outside so I escaped the reality by browsing thru some reference photos from the summer.
I took a bit looser style with this one and used a lot of paint!
Super fun!

"Nap"

I got this 100 years old frame from my mother in law. The frame needed a lot of restoring and I also painted it totally black. It also needed a custom sized canvas that I streched in it.
It was fun experiment to paint directly to already framed canvas.

Babies

"Babies"
65 x 90 cm
Oil on linen canvas
2011

I just love the challenge to paint multiple figures.
Even I had to repaint all of them maybe a couple of times, I think it was fun go thru with this marathon. :)

New paintings

"Toy cars"
65 x 75 cm

"Young painter"
70 x 100 cm
2011

Girl with a flower

I have been super busy with the new born and also in the visual FX work that our company Talvi does.
But finally I found time to push some paint around! I am not sure if this is totally finished, maybe i blur a few edges tomorror.. :)

What do YOU think about it?

HABITARE 2011

Some of my paintings are displayed in the HABITARE by the gallery Art Clipper

There is also a lot of great finnish artist´s works to be seen like, Rafael Ward,
Silja Selonen , Kuutti Lavonen and many others!
Please, dont miss the change if you are anywhere near Helsinki!

Pink dress

"Pink dress"
Oil on linen canvas

Dress with flowers

"Dress with flowers"
Oil on linen canvas
75 x 100

Back in Finland

Its good be back in Finland and today here was a very windy day. It's not good for landscape painter but i trusted my easy-L easel and piled a couple of big heavy rocks for extra support.
Clouds were passing by super fast and I waited until I saw these wonderful cumulus clouds.

Art in the open 2011 group exhibition

There was a long queue outside of the Greenacres Gallery. I think everyone from Wexford town entered the show!

Grand!

Tony and David.

John Dinan checking out the works of David Diaz and Marsha Savage.

Time for speeches.
Mayor of Wexford and Neil O´Keeffe.

Marsha Savage, she did those excellent pastels on the left!

Paul O´Kane, The Flute Player


John Dinan, Jimmy´s drum. Sold.

Keith Thomson, Main Street In The Rain, Wexford.

Paul Maloney´s painting in the middle.

My paintings.


Finally it's was time to enjoy all the great paintings that had been painted only in these few days. It doesnt get more contemporary then this!
Greenacres was fully packed with beautiful people and paintings.
Congratulations for all the winners!
Special thanks for Tony Robinson and Neil O´Keeffe for making this excellent event possible.

ps. check out the full list of registered Artists:
IN HERE

Art In The Open 2011 Sunday update

I painted these old castle ruins in the morning.
Then I went to check out plein air demonstration by David Diaz.
Here is some work in progress photos.

Thank you David. We learned a lot!
It actually turned out to be sunny and warm day, right after the demo. :)

Art In The Open 2011 saturday update

It's been fantastic!

We practically invaded Wexford today and we had this 2 hour speed painting competition.
I got lucky and even got some help from the young artists.
Thank you Ethan and Michael!

Don Maier did this excellent painting.

Paul Maloney painted a lot of these wonderful street scenes.

David Diaz painting, Kilmore Quay.