Yhden sateisen päivän jälkeen kukat aukeavat kesämökillä. Se on kesä nyt!
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After one rainy day, the flowers are starting to bloom at the summer cottage. It's summer now!
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After one rainy day, the flowers are starting to bloom at the summer cottage. It's summer now!
Näitä pyyhkeitä ja myös vanhempia malleja on myynnissä Naivistit Iittalassa-näyttelyn aulapuodissa ja Interi ry:n kesäpuodissa Runebergin mökissä Haiharan taidekeskuksessa Tampereella. Yritän ehtiä laittaa pyyhkeitä myyntiin myös Etsy-kauppaani (Linokissa).
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These towels and also older models are for sale in the lobby shop of the Naive Artists in Iittala exhibition and in the Interi ry's summer shop in Runeberg's cottage at the Haihara Art Center in Tampere. I am also trying to put towels up for sale in my Etsy shop (Linokissa).
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They say you should cut the flowers off rhubarb so that the leaves grow. What a bummer! The flowers are lovely and I don't eat rhubarb, it's too sour! I remember when I was a kid at the summer cottage it was a treat to dip a rhubarb stalk in sugar and bite into it! Well, there weren't really any treats in the cupboard at that time.
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A guest came to the bird pool at the cottage and spent a long time there: a beautiful green beetle, a golden beetle, a scarab.
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The alpine clematis is already blooming at the cottage, and it's a beautiful plant, a beautiful purple flower, delicate and already covering almost the entire tree. A flowering tree like a Christmas tree! Spring-summer at its best, let's enjoy!
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The name of the picture on the birthday card is Summer Showers. There is no information about the artist, but the picture looks Victorian, from the 19th century. And you can't call this a summer rain! The boy is playing around and pouring water from a watering can on two girls. Luckily the umbrella is big and doesn't wet the girls' lace skirts and hats. At least judging by the girls' smiles, the raindrops are nice, but the kitten is running away from the water!
Värit ja muodot tuovat mieleen -Kallelan vedet ja Keiteleen. The colors and shapes bring to mind the waters of Gallen-Kallela and Keitele. |
Mieleen tulee Itä-Eurooppalainen kansantaide tai Marimekko. Eastern European folk art or Marimekko comes to mind. |
Tässäkin taulussa on perhonen, niitä esiintyi näyttelyssä tosi paljon. There is a butterfly in this painting too, there were a lot of them in the exhibition. |
| Upeat värit ja uhkaava tunnelma, mutta tyyni nainen. Gorgeous colors and a menacing atmosphere, but a calm woman. |
Kesän näyttelyt on saatu auki, joten nyt on aikaa rauhassa hiukan tutkailla vanhempiakin linopiirroksiaan. Joku aika sitten tein kaksi tai oikeastaan kolme versiota Pispalan rinteestä joukosta A4-kokoisia palasia, jotka suunnittelin sopimaan yhteen. Osaa noista palasista en ole vedostanut edes yksinään. Mutta nyt aloin tehdä rastiin jääneitä töitä. Ensimmäisenä vedostin tämän A4-kokoisen talorykelmän, ja väritin ylärinteen talojen ikkunoihin valot. Nimeksi kuva sai Väinö Kirstinän runosta: "Lintu murtaa ilmojen hiljaisuuden".
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The summer exhibitions have opened, so now I have time to explore my older linocuts a bit. Some time ago I made two or actually three versions of Pispala's ridge from a set of A4-sized pieces that I planned to fit together. I haven't even printed some of those pieces on their own. But now I started doing the works that were left on the list. First I printed this A4-sized cluster of houses, and colored the lights in the windows of the houses on the upper slope. The picture was named after Väinö Kirstinä's poem: "A Bird Breaks the Silence Of the Air".
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Naomi Wilkinson's cat painting is very simple. A blueish cat sits on a yellowish background, looking to the left. I guess the picture is painted, only the white whiskers, black eye and pink nose have been added with a color other than the yellow of the base color. But the work could just as well be a collage. Even with such minimal shapes and lines, the painting has become an expressive and quite calming card.