Instagram on hauska some-appi postailla kuvia linopiirroksista. Minulla on noin tuhat seuraajaa, jotka kommentoivat töitä silloin tällöin, mutta tykkäyksistä saa hyvän kuvan siitä, mikä Instagram-kavereita kiinnostaa. Linopiirrokseni kun ovat useimmiten joko kissoja tai Pispalaa, niin nehän tietenkin näkyvät tässä vuoden 2017 eniten pidetyissä postauksissa: linopiirroksia, kissoja, nurmikkojyrää ja Pispalan taloja. Aika paljon postaan Instagremiin myös luontokuvia kuin vuodenaikapäiväkirjaa, mutta ne eivät ole nousseet pidetyimpien listalle. Linopiirrokset johtavat! Instagramissa seuraan itsekin noin tuhannen linopiirtäjän postauksia, ja mitä mielikuvituksen leikkiä ja myös hyviä teknisiäkin vinkkejä sieltä löytää. Enemmän ammattimaisesti suhtaudutaan linopiirroksiin Facebookin ryhmässä: Linocut Friends. Siellä saa tosi hyviä vastauksia linoteriä, kaiverrusmateriaaleja, papereita, värejä tai teloja koskeviin kysymyksiin.
Minut löytää Instagramista nimellä @linokissa
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Instagram is a fun social media app for posting pictures of linocuts. I have about thousand followers, and they are commenting sometimes, but about the likes I get a good overview what interests my Instagram friends.As my linocuts are often cats or Pispala houses, so they are of course visible here on the list of my most liked posts: linocuts, cats, garden roll and Pispala houses. I post in Instagram also quite a lot of nature photos like a seasonal diary, but these have not on this list of the most liked pictures. Linocuts rule! I follow myself in Instagram the posts of about thousand linocutters, and what play of the imagination and also good technical hints can I find in there. More professional angle can be found in Facebook group Linocut Friends. There you can get really good answers for the questions about linocutting materials, tools, blades, papers, colours and brayers.
You can find me in Instagram as @linokissa
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- NÄYTTELYKALENTERI / EXHIBITIONS
- MUUT TAIDETEOKSET / OTHER ART WORKS
- LILLY BERLIN - sarjakuva/ comic strip
- KAUPPA / SHOP
joulukuuta 27, 2017
joulukuuta 25, 2017
KISSAKORTTI: 236 / CAT CARD: 236
Ranskalainen Leon-Charles Huber (1858-1928) tunnetaan erityisesti kissamaalauksistaan, joissa herttaiset kissat usein poseeraavat kuin asetelmissa. Tässä kuvassa kissanpoikanen on kaatanut maljakon, kukat lojuvat lattialla ja kissalla on syytön ilme. Väri on jouluisen punainen.
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French Leon-Charles Huber (1858-1928) was known particularly by his cat paintings, where the cute cats often are posing like in still-lifes. In this picture a kitten has broken a vase, flowers are scattered on the floor, and the kitten has an innocent look. The colour is Christmassy red.
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French Leon-Charles Huber (1858-1928) was known particularly by his cat paintings, where the cute cats often are posing like in still-lifes. In this picture a kitten has broken a vase, flowers are scattered on the floor, and the kitten has an innocent look. The colour is Christmassy red.
joulukuuta 23, 2017
PISPALAN PORTAITA ALAS / PISPALA STEPS DOWN
Tarkoituksenani oli tehdä uusi Pispala-aiheinen linopiirros, jonka vedostaisin erilaisten pilvi- ja taivasaiheisten pastellien tai monoprinttien alaosaksi. Aiheesta syntyi kuva portaista, jotka laskeutuvat jyrkästi kohti Pyhäjärveä. Kädessäni olivat jo sakset, ja aioin leikata linon yläosan pois kun huomasin, että linopiirroksen yläosassahan on kuin sadepilviä. Kuvasta voisi sadepilvineen vedostaa myös ihan oman kuvansa. Teinkin sitten sekä 20 x 30 cm kokoisen linopiirroksen pilvineen että pohjan 50 x 30 cm sekatekniikkatöille peittämällä pilvet teipillä vedostettaessa. Voisin vielä kokeilla pilvien ja järven vedostusta sinisinä.
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My aim was to make a new Pispala-themed linocut, which i would print as a bottom part for different cloud or sky-themed pastel drawings or monoprints. The subject formed to a picture of steps that are descending sharply towards the lake Pyhäjärvi. I had already scissors in my hand, and I was about to cut away the upper side of the lino when I noticed that there are like rain clouds on the upper part of the picture. Why not print a whole new picture of the lino with the clouds. So I made both: a 20 x 30 cm linoprint with the clouds and a base for 50 x 30 cm mixed media works by covering the clouds with a piece of tape when printing. Still, I could try to print the clods and the lake blue.
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My aim was to make a new Pispala-themed linocut, which i would print as a bottom part for different cloud or sky-themed pastel drawings or monoprints. The subject formed to a picture of steps that are descending sharply towards the lake Pyhäjärvi. I had already scissors in my hand, and I was about to cut away the upper side of the lino when I noticed that there are like rain clouds on the upper part of the picture. Why not print a whole new picture of the lino with the clouds. So I made both: a 20 x 30 cm linoprint with the clouds and a base for 50 x 30 cm mixed media works by covering the clouds with a piece of tape when printing. Still, I could try to print the clods and the lake blue.
joulukuuta 20, 2017
PETRI NUUTINEN - NÄYTTELY / EXHIBITION
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December's exhibition at The Photographic Center Nykyaika is a group exhibition of four very different artists: "Finland100 - Pirkanmaa Yestreday and Today". The best in this exhibition is Petri Nuutinen's large wall of large photographs. The subject is the building of the tram trails, which has messed up the whole center of Tampere. The aim is to continue this documentation project for the next four and a half years. The pictures are pigment prints on Baryta paper, and it is really hard to recognize my home town from these scenes. There is chaos, trash, mess everywhere - but still there is something eternal and serene is the photos. And there are no humans - perhaps the photos were taken at a summer night. This is now the situation!
joulukuuta 18, 2017
Kissakortti: 235 / Cat Card: 235
Saksalaisen ekspressionistin Franz Markin (1880-1916) kissat on maalattu rehevillä väreillä ja paksulla siveltimellä tai veitsellä. Punainen raitainen peitto vyöryy kuin tulimeri, mutta kissat ovat raukeina päiväunilla. Värien käyttö muistuttaa Vicent van Goghin tyyliä, etenkin yläreunan ruohikko.
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Two cats by German Expressionist Franz Mark (1880-1916) are painted with lush colours and broad brushes or knives. The red striped blanket is pouring like a sea of fire, but the cats are peacefully napping. The use of colours reminds me of Vincent van Gogh's style, especially the grass on the upper part of the painting.
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Two cats by German Expressionist Franz Mark (1880-1916) are painted with lush colours and broad brushes or knives. The red striped blanket is pouring like a sea of fire, but the cats are peacefully napping. The use of colours reminds me of Vincent van Gogh's style, especially the grass on the upper part of the painting.
joulukuuta 14, 2017
PISPALA - TALOJA / HOUSES
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This 30 x 20 cm linocut is full of Pispala houses. I left the borders out of this lino, because I plan to make a bigger work by linking together several same sized linocuts, which could still be also individual linos.
joulukuuta 12, 2017
LUONTOA SASKIASSA / NATURE AT SASKIA
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Helena Kaikkonen |
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There is a fun and beautiful exhibition at Gallery Saskia of four artists: Synnöve Dickhoff, Helena Kaikkonen, Ulla Pohjola ja Kaija Poijula. They all have a style to combine materials found in the nature: stones, dandelion fluffs, tea bags, feathers, paper or bones. Books have been sawed to half, twisted and coloured. Different materials have been combined, and there are also embroidery and other decorations. It's very seldom that you experience a group exhibition this united, you can not separate the artists' styles easily. I took four photos with my phone, and they all were from different artists. I coul have sworn they were by the same maker.
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Kaija Poijula |
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Ulla Pohjola |
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Synnöve Dickhoff |
joulukuuta 11, 2017
Kissakortti: 234 / Cat Card: 234
Kissa tarpoo syvässä lumessa ja katsoo suoraan silmiin. Nuoskaisen paksun lumen voi melkein haistaa, kuivat ruohot sojottavat jäykkinä, taivaanrannassa on keltainen kajo ja kaikki on aika yksiväristä - paitsi vasemman yläkulman kirkas punainen metsikön takana, melkein kuin tulipalo. Maalaus on ruotsalaisen Bruno Liljeforsin (1860-1939), maalattu 1884 ja tätä ehkä voisi kutsua pohjoismaiseksi impressionismiksi.
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A cat is stalking over deep snow and staring straight to your eyes. You can almost smell the damp, thick snow, dry grass is sticking out stiff, there is a yellow glow on the horizon and everything is rather monochrome - except some bright red on the upper left corner behind the trees, almost like a fire. The painiting is by Swedish Bruno Liljefors (1869-1939), painted in 1884 and you could perhaps call this Northern Impressionism.
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A cat is stalking over deep snow and staring straight to your eyes. You can almost smell the damp, thick snow, dry grass is sticking out stiff, there is a yellow glow on the horizon and everything is rather monochrome - except some bright red on the upper left corner behind the trees, almost like a fire. The painiting is by Swedish Bruno Liljefors (1869-1939), painted in 1884 and you could perhaps call this Northern Impressionism.
joulukuuta 08, 2017
PISPALA - LINOPIIRROS / LINOCUT
Uusi linopiirros Pispalasta on tekeillä. Tässä kuvassa on vain jyrkkä rinne täynnä taloja. Kun käytän vaaleaa linolevyä, on aina hauska nähdä miten kuva tulee esiin mustetta levittäessä.
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A new linocut of Pispala is in process. In this picture there is only the steep ridge full of houses. When using this pale sheet of lino, it is always fun to see how the picture is coming visible inking the lino.
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A new linocut of Pispala is in process. In this picture there is only the steep ridge full of houses. When using this pale sheet of lino, it is always fun to see how the picture is coming visible inking the lino.
joulukuuta 04, 2017
Kissakortti: 233 / Cat Card: 233
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English artist Ben Nicholson is holding his cat Tommy. There is visible tenderness in his eyes, but also some determination. He is keeping the hind legs of the cat in a tight grip. It is not so easy to jump off. The photograph was taken by his wife Felicitas Vogler. Funny that her name is mentioned wrong (Felicitas Vogle) in this post card bought atTate Modern.
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