Under the Mediterranean sky...

My first trip to the Mediterranean area in 2005 was an excellent experience. This was the very first and fast impression of me when exiting the airplane on Karpatos Airport: sun was shining nearly above me! And the same sun was with me every day, brightening the colours which were maily brown, green, grey...I suddenly found this small chapel (absolutely the oldest building I have ever visited!) on the western coast of Karpatos island and catched some photos of it. One of these photos helped me later to paint this landscape on my art course in Finland during long, dark Nordic nights...and here it is: not so naturalistic but, in opposite, joyful in some way - like my feelings during my very first trip to Greece!

A dreaming tree

A dreaming tree - not botanically very specified but a combination of some leaf trees...just without any backgroung. Only staying and dreaming.

A grey winter day. On the road between Jyväskylä and Imatra. Resting on a parking place beneath a bridge. An old boot, waiting for the next summer. No other colors than white, blue and grey.

Starting my drawing blog.

The morning is sunny and beautiful. Winter turns to Spring. A lot of drawings are resting everywhere and photos, taken during last summer, are waiting to be drawn.

How shall I continue? The great Finnish masters - Edelfelt, Gallen-Gallela etc. - were excellent drawers and have applied also a documenting style of drawing. They have been my favourites since my childhood (over 50 years ago) and I have tried to learn an similar, exact technique. But now I think that something new shall be found - colours, some other effects, not only exact lines...?