Orthodox Church in Summassaari, Saarijärvi, Finland

This small, self-built (!) Orthodox Church is situated in Saarijärvi, Central Finland. I was joining its opening ceremony in summer 2011. All of its constructions were made in an excellent way! It follows the traditional features of Carelian churchs.

I started this work with a pencil and continue with colour pencils. Only light brown (of the timber itself) and light blue has been used for the decoration of this small temple. In opposite, a wide variety of beautiful flowers are surrounding it.

Final version of this work will be published in this blog soon.

Orthodox baptism

Naming of the child takes place very early after the birth in Orthodox Church. It can be performed separately or in the Holy sacrament of Baptism. Only one Christian name is preferred and this name refers some holy, sanctified orthodox person - in this case, Holy Miriam.

Photography of color pencil drawings is not an easy task because the difficulty of color reproduction. This photo has ignored all bluish shades which cannot be corrected with the relatively simple tools of PowerPoint program. It is therefore most important to secure the right shades in the final photo. I think that this problem is especially often faced when trying to copy the relatively delicate shades of color pencil works.