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A flock of bird linocuts are now printed around the laughing sun in the summer sky. Under the jumping hill, the cat sleeps sheltered. The sky is pastel, everything else is linocuts. The size of this mixed media work is 50 x 30 cm. This also suited my series of pictures from Lauri Viita's poem Alfhild, and the work was named: "And the Birds, the Birds They Sing".
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I plan to print small linocuts or stamps of birds circling the sun over the towers. The birds fly past the sun in an arc. The summer blue sky is a soft pastel. I cut a flock-shaped template or model out of baking paper. I'm trying to print the birds inside the paper opening.
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The sun is now shining over the Pyynikki ridge. The linocut sun printed in yellow with a red center had a small red lino of a laughing face in the middle. In the lower part, there is a linocut of the ridge of Pyynikki with its observation tower and ski jumping hill (which, however, has already been dismantled). Next the pastel sky.
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The library's Aatetoverit visited Lempäälä. We learned about the history of the Nirunaru puppet theater and the puppet exhibition at the Kuokkala museum lane. Tuula Martikainen presented the stages of the puppet theater she founded about 50 years ago. Nirunaru has always been firmly connected to the library and it is certainly a big model for many puppet theaters born in other libraries in Finland. Tuula founded Nirunaru with her colleagues in the Huittinen library in the 1970s. After all, libraries have held fairy tale lessons for children, where fairy tales have been read aloud. But for the audience of fairy tale lessons, the puppet theater is like a luxury. In the case of Nirunaru, the performers of the puppet theater have also made a large part of the puppets. And how charming those doll figures are! Some have a yarn crocheted head, some have a molded expressive head. Nirunaru has also been characterized by puppet shows for adults as well as "to order" shows for festivities and birthdays.
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Another Christmas card design of laughing faces on top of stars is round. Here, too, the cat plays the violin among the stars. I added the word Christmas in different languages to the edge of the circle. And then I added laughing faces and elf hats to the edges and got a square picture. So the intention would probably be to print Christmas cards from this version too. But is there already too much decoration, like candy wrappers? Would I settle for a circle without edges? The picture got its name from Lauri Pohjanpää's poem: "In the misty blue Christmas morning".
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Small smiley faces are laughing here on top of the pastel stars. The linocut of a cat playing the violin is hand colored. And the sky is made with soft pastels. This 27 x 26 cm picture got its name from Lauri Pohjanpää's poem Aamunsuu: "A smile greets the land of the sun." I'm going to print a Christmas card from the picture.
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I made two small linocuts (only 3 cm in diameter) with a smiling face. I'm going to use these in the middle of larger sun linocuts and in a Christmas card as star faces. Let's try first a Christmas card.
Kesän aikana kesämökillä syntyivät nämä seitsemän sekatekniikkatyötä, joissa kaikissa lentelee perhoskissoja tai enkelikissoja. Kissat ovat linopiirroksia. Samoin linopiirroksia ovat kuut ja aurinko, kuumailmapallo sekä kuvien alareunan maisemat, kissat, usein Pispalaa, Pyhäjärveä tai Pyynikkiä. Taivaat ja pilvet tein pehmeillä pastelliväreillä. Kaikkien pienempien (50 x 30 cm) töiden innoittajana oli Lauri Viidan runo Alfhild Pispalasta ja hänen äidistään. Enkä nyt ole yhtään varma, vaikka tämä sarja vielä jatkuisi. Näitä linopalasia on niin hauska yhdistellä uuteen kokonaisuuteen ja lisätä ihan eri näköinen taivas.
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During the summer, these seven mixed media works were created at the summer cottage, all of which have butterfly cats or angel cats flying around. The cats are linocuts. Similarly, linocuts are also the moon and the sun, hot air balloon as well as the landscapes at the bottom of the pictures, cats, often Pispala, Pyhäjärvi or Pyynikki. I made the skies and clouds with soft pastel colors. All the smaller works (50 x 30 cm) were inspired by Lauri Viita's poem Alfhild about Pispala and his mother. And now I'm not at all sure, even if this series will continue. These lino pieces are so fun to combine into a new whole picture and add a completely different looking sky.
