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I used soft pastels to create the background for this picture, which combines several linocuts: a hot air balloon and three flying rabbits. I hand-colored the hot air balloon. The background turned out to be quite summery and light, with a bit of purple and yellow in the cotton candy clouds. The size of the picture is 31 x 24 cm. This mixed media work got its name from Aaro Hellaakoski's poem: "There Is Space In the Sky, There Is Sound Above, Below".
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There are plenty of tomatoes and the absolute favorite is still the Danish export /Tanskan vienti. Then I noticed a heart-shaped moss-covered rock next to the greenhouse wall.
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After a couple of rainy days, the flowers are opening. Finally, a small white clematis opened, and a large dark red sweet-smelling lily. From the ugly, wrinkled, strange lily buds, quite funny-looking orange-colored, twisted flowers opened, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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A rainy day at the summer cottage, what a perfect time to make a pastel background for a linocut of an angry cat and the moon. The background was the evening sky, a bit of purple and blue and lots of stars. The picture got its name from an old verse: "The cat's name is Misuliini, I'll catch the cat", The size of the picture is 23 x 16.5 cm.
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Louis Wain's (1860-1939) drawing from 1886 is from his early years. The cats still look like ordinary house cats, while in Wain's later works they are mischievous, human-like and even grotesque. This card image is one of a larger set "The Kittens' Christmas Party". These cats are really having a party soon! They wake up in a row with their eyes still closed. A row of birds sit at the head of the bed and mice are all around, even in a row watching the waking kittens.
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| Jesse Kitinoja & Macu Makkonen |
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| Tisainia |
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| Siina Levonoja |
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| Sanni Seppä |
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| Eero Yrjölä & Aleksi Kolmonen |
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| Runebergin mökki |
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The lilies are opening their lovely flowers. There is already one white one, a few reddish ones and many yellow ones with brown spots in bloom. None of these are fragrant. Let's wait, there are plenty of buds.
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The clematis are nice, and when they bloom they leave fun tassels. The alpine clematis was also excited to bloom again.
Tätäkään kahden erillisen 20 x 30 cm kokoisen linopiirroksen yhteistä vedostusta en ollut aiemmin tehnyt. Nyt minua ei häiritse, että samankokoisen alaosan puuttuminen jättää oikealla olevat talot hiukan vajavaisiksi ja portaat loppuvat kesken. Haulitorni, Näsinneula, Pispalan koulu ja Siilinkarin majakka kaikki kuvassa näkyvät ja paljon Pispalan taloja. Haulitorni on väritetty punaiseksi ja ylimpien talojen ikkunoista loistaa valo. Tämän 20 x 60 cm kokoisen linopiirrosversion nimeksi tuli "Palikkaleikki moreenipenkereellä".
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I had not done this joint print of two separate 20 x 30 cm linocuts before. Now I don't mind that the lack of the same-sized lower part leaves the houses on the right a bit incomplete and the stairs end in half. The Pispala shot tower, Näsinneula, Pispala school and Siilinkari lighthouse are all visible in the picture, as are many of the houses in Pispala. The shot tower is colored red and light shines from the windows of the uppermost houses. This 20 x 60 cm linocut version was named "Palikkaleikki moreenipenkereellä" / "Block Play On the Moraine Embankment".
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"Blue and Tawny" is the title of this watercolor painting by the Englishman Frederic "Fred" Roe (1864-1947) from 1910. The blue is the woman in her Japanese-style kimono, and the yellow is probably the fluffy cat on an oriental rug. The background also reflects the Japanese style admired in the early 20th century, with its bird and moon. For a watercolor work, the painting is exceptionally precise, for example on the woman's face and the cat's fur. The atmosphere is eerily mysterious. But what could the pot in the woman's hands contain? Cat food?
