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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I now want a pretty colorful pastel sky, yellow and red over Pispala. In the upper right corner, you can already see a hint of blue sky under the birds. I'm still not sure where the new linocut sunr will be. A few clouds popped up in the sky. Will anything come of this - that's always the question at this stage of mixed media work.
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The sky over Pispala started with yellow pastel. The little linocut birds are waiting to be printed, as is the sun that has risen into the sky. Although I'm not at all sure about the position of the sun yet. Should the sun be higher compared to the hot air balloon? The matter is a little complicated by the fact that this new sun is such that before it can be printed in the sky, there must be some color under the sun that can be seen between the sun's rays.
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A hot air balloon is flying over the Pispala ridge. I plan a group of birds in the same image and the sun to the left. This stage of starting mixed media work is always fascinating. scary but inspiring. At this stage I only plan and place linocuts.
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The latest linocut of the sun is sparkling. I added glitter to the ink before it dried. The picture really doesn't do the shine justice! I personally like this one, because it's completely different from different directions. The background is a monotype and the size of the image is 15 x 15 cm.
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A smiling sun with swallows flying past, one rather pale sun and one large sun were created one after the other. These were fun to make! The suns are linocuts, and the swallows are small linocut stamps. The skies in the background are monoprints. The size of the images is 15 x 15 cm.
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The happy sun grins in the sky and swallows fly by. I printed the linocut of the sun twice, first a lighter orange and then a darker one on top of it. The sun's face and the swallows are linocuts, the sky is a monoprint. The size of the image is 15 x 15 cm.
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I've already made dozens of linocut birds on a monotype background. When you notice that your desk has turned into a terrible chaos and your tools have piled up, you know that it's time to stop the monotype mess for a while. But before that, there's still plenty of time to try moons or suns. I used linocuts of the moon and sun as monoprint patterns. That works too. I probably need to do some finishing on these pictures of moons and suns.
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So far, my largest mixed media work, lino/pastel, seems to be finished. Birds and a swallow are circling the sky past the sun. There are some pink clouds in the sky and just a few tiny red hearts among the clouds. The birds, dragon fly, sun and hearts are linocuts, the rest is soft pastel and a little pastel pencil. In the middle is a linocut of Pispala ridge and Tahmela beach. Below the pastel water and bottom rocks are pastel and the rest linocuts : fish, starfish, aquatic plants and mussels. The size of the picture is quite challenging at 200 x 90 cm. But it was fun and challenging to do when I gradually saw such a pretty pink/purple-toned (soul) landscape emerging on the blank paper. I found these two sentences from Juice Leskinen's song Fifteenth Night as the title: "Sand Was Left On My Skin After the Beach Was Deserted. Maybe I'll Finally Get To Sleep."
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This large (200 x 90 cm) mixed media work was finished on the floor, because my desk is too small. Even out of the way, I could only get the picture horizontally, across, on the wall. The work needs quite a lot of space, with a decent amount of height. Now I have to get it framed at Art Pispala. Sesse has to pick up the picture in her van. I don't dare roll up the lino pastel so it doesn't get dirty, even though it has been fixated.
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My biggest mixed media work to date, a lino pastel of sky and water and Pispala ridge, seems to be finished now. And it was impossible to finish it on the desk. I guess I'll have to move to the floor to do the work.
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Now even the smallest linocut birds, or stamps, have been printed onto the sky. A few birds have also got a little more color: the woodpecker has red on its chest and head, the tit has yellow on its side, and the dtragonfly has color on its wings. I think the top of the large mixed media work, or lino pastel, is starting to be here.
