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Felix is the name of this cat drawn by Agathe Singer. The blue cat sits on a blue background. The drawing is full of soft, curvy lines, paws, tail and head with a red nose. But the real highlight of the picture is those magnificent, curved white whiskers!
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The cat hatching from the egg was colored green. Did the picture look a bit threatening? At least the rabbits flying in the air look a bit anxious. The rabbits and the lower part of the picture are linocuts, the sky is pastel and the egg is colored with marker. The size of the picture is 20 x 30 cm.The name of the picture came from Lauri Viita's poem: "Let's Drive On a Cat To the Bishop's Yard".
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Some time ago, a series of linocuts were printed, in which a cat hatches from an egg in the middle of a field. I made both larger 50 x 30 cm versions of the image, with a larger sky, and smaller 20 x 30 cm versions. Now, three rabbits and a yellow/purple pastel sky flew into this smaller version. I think the egg is still getting color on its surface.
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For future mixed media works, I carved three small linocuts of flying rabbits. One of the rabbits even has wings. The size of these rabbits is about 10 x 10 cm.
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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."
