A new technique adopted - accidentally!

We work ourselves as voluntary supervisors in KOPRU Summer Exhibition. I prefer the longest shifts, six hours, because I will then have time to sit, read and draw whenever no visitors are present. 

I started to draw this corner of our exhibition hall with traditional ink pen. You may guess what happened: I dropped a lot of ink from the pen onto the drawing! I got an idea to wash it away with a moist brush but found out that the ink will be spreading in a beautiful way on the paper! 

"Why not", was my reaction. Those grey shades were easy to create.

Finally I added some colours with colour pens on the mosaic floor (I have seen many coloured drawings by the Swedish artist Carl Larsson). Then I was all satisfied.

This will be my new method to produce coloured ink drawings. I start practising immediately!

4.8.2016 was a most busy day!

It seems that I will leave all important things to be done just before "deadline". I finished an old colour pencil drawing just two hours before the construction of our art exhibition started (photo below).

As far I have joined our art society KOPRU, summer exhibitions have always been held in Wanha Woimala, Vaajakoski (photo below).

Our society has been named referring a poem by EINO LEINO, where he calls the furious turbulence of a waterfall as "kopru" (photo below: some "koprus" beneath our exhibition hall, an old power plant).

This is my traditional "corner". It is very optimal for me because majority of my works are relatively tiny (photo above).

The "most healthy breakfast" by our Grand Old Man, excellent landscape painter Kake!

More "good news" from Wanha Woimala" soon....

KOPRU Exhibition 5. - 26.8.2016 in Wanha Woimala, Vaajakoski, Finland!

After a relatively long period of artistic inactivity I will start again! Next step is the annual summer exhibition of our art society KOPRU (means turbulent flow of water in a rapid or waterfall, invented by the famous Finnish poet Eino Leino).

My drawings and paintings are mainly old ones (because I have done absolutely nothing during the last winter period) but I still try do some framing of colour pencil works before Thursday evening (which comes very soon!).

If you like to visit this exhibition, remember: open on every day of the week but NOT on Saturdays because wedding events in the restaurant of the building. But! Next Saturday is an exception - we will have a childrens' workshop (see photo above - some drawings of our young visitors from 2015).

Welcome! Välkommen! Willkommen! Tervetuloa! Presentations in all languages mentioned before at least on Monday 8.8. and Friday 12.8.!