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The cat card features a photograph of English textile artist Emma Morton's embroidery in her embroidery hoop. The cat is crying so much that a puddle of tears has already formed on the ground. There is a poster on the wall asking for a missing cat. Is the crying cat the missing cat, or is the cat crying for its lost friend?
Punaista tussia vielä muutamaan linopiirroslintuun ja kuva on mielestäni valmis. Alaosassa on linopiirros Pispalan harjusta portaineen. Yllä leimuaa punakeltainen pastellitaivas ja näkyy siellä sinistäkin taivasta pilvien välissä. Kuumailmapallo ja linnut ovat linopiirroksia, hiukan väritetty ja aurinkokin on linopiirros nauravine naamoineen. Kuvan koko on 50 x 60 cm. Nimensä kuva sai Juice Leskisen kappaleesta Afroditen poika: "Ja tuuli herää, aurinko hieroo silmiään".
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A little more red marker pens on the linocut birds and I think the picture is finished. At the bottom is a linocut of the Pispala ridge with its steps. Above, a red-yellow pastel sky flares and you can see some blue sky between the clouds. The hot air balloon and the birds are linocuts, slightly colored, and the sun is also a linocut with a laughing face. The size of the picture is 50 x 60 cm. The picture got its name from Juice Leskinen's song Aphrodite's son: "And the wind wakes up, the sun rubs its eyes".
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The hot air balloon flying in the red sky got some color. I added yellow, red, blue and orange stripes to the side of the balloon with felt-tip pens. Next I will print the little linocut birds and the sun.
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A hot air balloon over Pispala and orange in the sky. I added a few dark cloud edges, spreading next with my fingers. There are too many clouds. But the sun seems to have found its place in the upper left corner.
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In Terry DeRoy Gruber's black-and-white photograph, a black-and-white cat peeks out of a gap in the wall, looking a little sly. Has the cat managed to fit through that gap? Or has it already been on the other side of the wall? The gap looks hastily sawn and at least bigger than a mousehole. The photo is from Terry DeRoy Gruber's book "Working Cats" - but what work does this cat do? The card also includes a quote: "He's my silent partner. He prefers to remain behind the scenes."
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I now want a pretty colorful pastel sky, yellow and red over Pispala. In the upper right corner, you can already see a hint of blue sky under the birds. I'm still not sure where the new linocut sunr will be. A few clouds popped up in the sky. Will anything come of this - that's always the question at this stage of mixed media work.
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The sky over Pispala started with yellow pastel. The little linocut birds are waiting to be printed, as is the sun that has risen into the sky. Although I'm not at all sure about the position of the sun yet. Should the sun be higher compared to the hot air balloon? The matter is a little complicated by the fact that this new sun is such that before it can be printed in the sky, there must be some color under the sun that can be seen between the sun's rays.
Sarjassa linopiirroksia omassa kodissaan: kissat laatikossa. Ystävän hoitokissa tunki pakattavien tavaroiden joukkoon pahvilaatikkoon. Ja seinällä on linopiirrokseni kissasta laatikossa. Mikä yhteensattuma ja miten samanlaiset ilmeet suurisilmäisillä kissoilla! Mitä voidaan tästä päätellä: kissat rakastavat laatikoita!
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In a series of linocuts in their own home: cats in a box. A friend's foster cat was stuck in a cardboard box among the things to be packed. And on the wall is my linocut of a cat in a box. What a coincidence and how similar the expressions are on the big-eyed cats! What can we conclude from this: cats love boxes!
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A hot air balloon is flying over the Pispala ridge. I plan a group of birds in the same image and the sun to the left. This stage of starting mixed media work is always fascinating. scary but inspiring. At this stage I only plan and place linocuts.
