Väritin käsin nämä kaikki neljä linopiirrosta päiväperhosesta. Kaksi niistä on aika hentoja, pastellivärisiä, kaksi vähän kirkkaampia. Taustan monotypia yrittää muistuttaa ilmaa, pilviä, taivasta, peltoa. Kuvan koko on 15 x 15 cm.
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I colored all four of these linocuts of a butterfly by hand. Two of them are quite light, pastel-colored, two are a bit brighter. The monotype of the background tries to resemble the air, clouds, sky, field. The size of the picture is 15 x 15 cm.
Naivistit Iittalassa -kesänäyttelyn ohessa järjestetään Naivistien kesänavaus lauantaina 8.6.2024 klo 11.30 -14. Ohjelmassa mm. näyttelyn kuraattori Veikko Halmetoja esittelee näyttelyn, Eino Viikilä kertoo 25 vuodestaan Iittalan näyttelyssä ja Esa Leppänen antaa työnäytteen. Jossain vaiheessa ohjelmaa naivistit esittelevät töitään ja ovat tavattavissa. siispä nähdään!
Galleria Villa Armaassa Kangasalla (Armas Branderin katu 8, Pikonlinna) aukeaa kesän naivistinen näyttely keskiviikkona 5.6.2024 klo 18. Sielläkin nähdään!
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Two invitations for you who are moving in the direction of Iittala on June 8, 2024 or Kangasala on June 5, 2024.
Along with the Naive Artists in Iittala summer exhibition there will be organized Naive Summer Opening on Saturday, June 8, 2024, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. In the program, e.g. exhibition curator Veikko Halmetoja introduces the exhibition, Eino Viikilä tells about his 25 years at the Iittala exhibition and Esa Leppänen gives a work sample. At some point in the program, the naivists will present their work and be available to meet. See you then!
KUTSU
Naivistien kesänavaus lauantaina 8.6.
klo 11:30 Malja kesälle!
klo 12–14 puukoulun sisäpihalla:
Keltainen talo -kesänäyttelyn esittely, kuraattori Veikko Halmetoja
25 vuotta Iittalassa taiteilijana, naivistitaiteilija Eino Viikilä
Sekaisin väristä -yhteisötaideteoksen maalaaminen
Iittalan karhu pyöräretkellä – taiteilija Esa Leppäsen työnäytös
Taiteilijatapaamisia teosten äärellä
Tunnelmaa luo Kalle Penttilä harmonikallaan.
Tarjoilua Kuivakakkukahvilassa
Näyttely on avoinna klo 10–19.
Tervetuloa nauttimaan ilosta, väristä ja lempeydestä!
Ystävällisin terveisin
Naivistit Iittalassa -säätiö
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The swallowtail butterfly is a linocut and the background is a monotype. In the two backgrounds I used a plastic knife and made some patterns resembling blades of grass and flowers. The background became so vivid that I didn't color the butterfly. In the third, the background is smoother, so I colored the butterfly's wings by hand and also added a few small lino birds. The size of the picture is 15 x 15 cm.
The paintings of the German Kathia Berger (b. 1938) mostly feature cats. However, this image is dominated by a thick black wrinkled dog with red eyes and a sullen expression. But there are also two small black and white cats with yellow eyes, one has even ventured into the same basket with the dog. The blue wall in the background is beautiful and so are the grain of the wooden floor. The name of the picture is "Freunde / Friends".
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Two linocuts of woodpeckers flying in different directions on a monotype background. I hand-colored part of the head and chest of the birds red. In one picture, there is color as a monotype under the linocuts of birds, and I added a flock of small linocut birds. In these, I tried a slightly purple-bending sky, and I also used a plastic knife to make clouds. The size of the picture is 15 x 15 cm.
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@sissiliskonen framed my small green linocut of a lizard in silver coloured frames. There are also three small lizard sculptures in the nice picture, you don't immediately notice the glass in the middle. It looked good to me. When I found a gold-coloured frame in my closet, I framed the lizard myself, for once in something other than black narrow frames.
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Väinölä Art Center's traditional big and happy summer Naive Art exhibition opens in Varkaus on Monday, May 27, 2024 and is open until August 24. Opening times are Mon-Fri 10-17, Sat 10-15, Sun closed. However, you can enter the exhibition in advance already on Saturday 25.5 if you happen to be living or travelling there. The opening ceremony with program will be held at 2 p.m., and after that you can enter the exhibition. There will be at the exhibition also my smaller linocuts and cards made from them, as well as one larger lino pastel of the cottage on a hill. Once again, putting together and setting up the exhibition has been a big job for gallerists Marja-Muusa and Timo Hämäläinen, thank you very much for letting me participate the exhibition! Happy summer in Eastern Finland!
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This cat is an angel cat, it has wings and it flies. The cat is a linocut and the background a monotype. I still tried to get the feeling of the sky, clouds and air in the background. The size of the picture is 15 x 15 cm.
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In the painting from 1910 by German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938),a young woman - artists Marcella looks quite sad, even tired. She is leaning on the sofa's armrest and there are a couple of empty liquor bottles on the floor. What is particularly attractive in the picture are the beautifully colored stripes: on the girl's skirt, socks and floor mat. The white cat is curled up to sleep in the corner of the sofa.
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Mother cat and kitten are flying. No fear at all! The cats are a linocut. In the background monoprint, I tried to get the structure of the clouds or a light atmosphere, one with a dark sky.. The size of the picture is 15 x 15 cm.
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Two slightly silly-looking cats are sitting on a field. The cats and birds are linocuts, the background is a monotype, which when printed, space for the cats has been left with a stencil. You can get quite a mess with these methods from time to time. The size of the picture is 15 x 15 cm.
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I tried making a monoprint on the gelli plate as the background for the cat so that the colors are bright, blue and green. The linocut cat is standing on a green field. The sky looks almost rainy, but it's only summer rain. When the color is quite thick, you can try making patterns with the blade of a plastic knife. The size of the picture is 15 x 15 cm. I made a monoprint base on a gelli plate 15 x 15 cm using a template. Likewise, when printing the background, I put a template from the linocut on the bottom edge, so I got a white area for printing the linocut.
