Late spring on the shore of Ala-Kintaus Lake.

This is an example of those rapid drawings which I preferred to do some ten years ago. When travelling, one has not too much time to prepare his/her piece of art (if not taking a photo and continue afterwards with time).

The horizon is really over there: it is the opposite shore on the left side of the drawing. The shoreline of the cape and vegetation on the lake are NOT horizontally installed; they actually followed the reality. They have, therefore, some odd, confusing effect - but I still let them be like they are. Nature not always follows our orders....

Technique was simple: just drawing with calligraphy felt-tip pens and color pencils. I tried to express some feelings of Finnish spring (1.5.2006) when there were no leaves yet, water was icy and everything was waiting warmer days of early summer.

FUTURE LADY

Sometimes I found old drawings as photocopies. It is, of course, a wise way to do experiments with copies, not with originals.

In this case I scanned an old drawing (2006) and modified it with the very same scanning program, SYSTWEAK PHOTO STUDIO, which was an appendix for the scanning program itself. I have ordered these programs from Internet, with a relatively low price, and I am satisfied with them.

The red version will (I wish that it really will!) show an active, young lady - maybe slightly faceless - looking towards her future. Red background gives some energy to her.

"A Day in Wyborg" and tiny, green tomatoes!

Now is the color pen work "A Day in Wyborg" finished!

It shows a view of a city yard on the eldest area of Wyborg, Russia (actually the 2nd biggest Finnish city before WW 2).  There was no life (except the birch, growing on the wall of the left-side building) to be seen, so I decided to add a sitting girl and the front of a car (Soviet make, called LADA in western countries).

This peaceful scene will be multiplied very soon in the form of postcards.

The small, green tomatoes are from our own harvest. For some reason, very many of my friends have also got greenish ones - because the very odd summer, I think. I try to ripen them in our kitchen but they tend, in opposite, to rip before they turn to red! Very odd... X Files?