Running free
2010
oil/acrylic
Water, colours and horses with a burn in their eyes, was my first thought when I saw the original photograph which I afterwards used as a reference picture. The photo was in a wild life photograph book I have at home, and I just find the photographs really fantastic. I have two favourite photos in that book, one being this here and the other one a photo of an elephant swimming in deep water taken from frog perspective.
When I started to paint I was terrified. I used a canvas and the canvas was big, bigger than I had ever done , and I wasn't really use to filling that big blank white canvases with paint at all! I took some paint and started to paint. Acrylic paints are challenging to use, because they dry really fast, which doesn't allow much of thinking and mixing the colours later, when a huge mistake is noticed, so at some point I changed to oil paints and they didn't dry that fast. A problem that I faced then was to get it to dry! It takes a long time for oil paint to dry, but I got used to it soon and realized I would need to paint in a different way than with acrylic paints.
While working on this, I learned that you can paint with oil paints on top of acrylic paints but not the other way. So, for me I think this was about trying out the paints and trying to get the feeling of movement and that burn in the horses eyes.
When I started to paint I was terrified. I used a canvas and the canvas was big, bigger than I had ever done , and I wasn't really use to filling that big blank white canvases with paint at all! I took some paint and started to paint. Acrylic paints are challenging to use, because they dry really fast, which doesn't allow much of thinking and mixing the colours later, when a huge mistake is noticed, so at some point I changed to oil paints and they didn't dry that fast. A problem that I faced then was to get it to dry! It takes a long time for oil paint to dry, but I got used to it soon and realized I would need to paint in a different way than with acrylic paints.
While working on this, I learned that you can paint with oil paints on top of acrylic paints but not the other way. So, for me I think this was about trying out the paints and trying to get the feeling of movement and that burn in the horses eyes.
2010
mixed materials
Deep in the Eyes
2010
charcoal
2010
charcoal
I have been going to art school since I was a little kid and I can't even remember how old I was when I started there. This art school, which we call taidekoulu, is a place where many people in our town has been at least once. I want to believe everyone in town knows about it, because it really is a wonderfull place and so relaxing too. There isn't any competition and students come there to meet friends and eat snaks while making art. Every year taidekoulu puts up a exhibition at the library where the works of the students are shown to anyone who wants to go and see them. I hope taidekoulu will keep on the artspirit of this town as long as it can.
I drew this piece with charcoal on velvet paper. Velvet paper is a lot softer than normal paper and it kind of eats the power of the charcoal. It is also almost impossible to erase the charcoal off the paper, because once you rub the velvet paper with the eraser you are in danger to ruin the velvet that is on the velvet paper (this sounds really confusing). This means that if something doesn't go like planned you have to come up with something to rescue the mistake. Then again, mistakes often do turn into amazingness too! I found this paper really interesting and actually really nice, because it didn't take so much time since erasing wasn't an option and you had to make every line with a thought of where does it come from, where will it end, is it necessary, does it add something and so on...I definitely recommend trying this out, it's worth the effort!
My teacher gave these velvet papers to me and said that I must try it out. I had been surfing in the internet and I had found this most amazing website full of great old pictures of natives and other cultures and I liked the idea of the smooth paper with the old photographs and I took the challenge. I ended up drawing two similar pieces and the other Native American velvet paper piece I sold as my first, and so far the only, work that I've ever sold! I remember feeling so weird, but really happy and glad.
I drew this piece with charcoal on velvet paper. Velvet paper is a lot softer than normal paper and it kind of eats the power of the charcoal. It is also almost impossible to erase the charcoal off the paper, because once you rub the velvet paper with the eraser you are in danger to ruin the velvet that is on the velvet paper (this sounds really confusing). This means that if something doesn't go like planned you have to come up with something to rescue the mistake. Then again, mistakes often do turn into amazingness too! I found this paper really interesting and actually really nice, because it didn't take so much time since erasing wasn't an option and you had to make every line with a thought of where does it come from, where will it end, is it necessary, does it add something and so on...I definitely recommend trying this out, it's worth the effort!
My teacher gave these velvet papers to me and said that I must try it out. I had been surfing in the internet and I had found this most amazing website full of great old pictures of natives and other cultures and I liked the idea of the smooth paper with the old photographs and I took the challenge. I ended up drawing two similar pieces and the other Native American velvet paper piece I sold as my first, and so far the only, work that I've ever sold! I remember feeling so weird, but really happy and glad.
2008
charcoal
In 2008 exhibition of the taidekoulu our teacher wanted to have a few pieces of animals done with charcoal on felt. I was luckly enough to get to try out how it feels like to work with this kind of material and I decided to draw a dead mouse. Why? I don't know, I guess there's something really touching, honest and beautiful in this creature and its position.
Drawing on felt was really challenging, because every single touch of the charcoal on the felt was final. Like you can see when you look carefull enough there are spots where I tried to cover up the mess I had made, and how it didn't work out too well. I loved the smooth touch that the felt gave to the charcoal, making the fur look more furrish and the mouse to pop of the paper. I enjoyed drawing this piece and I was very excited of what I could do with the combination of felt and charcoal. To be honest I have no idea if felt is the right word to be used here, but it is huopa in Finnish.
2010
pastels
pastels
2009
pastels
pastels
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