Some photos from 00's!

In the beginning of this century I have spent nine months in Sweden when working for my previous company SE Oyj in Research Centre Karlstad, Värmland. The summer was fine! The "culture club" KARSKU (Karlstadin Suomalainen Kulttuuriseura) constructed an art weekend near Karlstad where we could use different methods for drawing and painting. I have made an acrylic sketch of a small Norwegian mountain brook, situated some 1 000 m over sea level (I call it my "peak painting").

The final painting was made with common wall paints on the inner wall of a toilet, owned by our Norwegian friends Liisa and Peer. I wish that my "peak painting" will resist the harsh winter weather over there!

These photos, by the way, were taken with the universally most sold SLR camera, ZENIT, made in USSR!Over 12 000 000 cameras in all world! I still use it relatively frequently, especially for landscape photography.

Art Exhibition "Pieni Piirustusnäyttely" in Säynätsalo Library, 16.11. - 18.12.2015

"Pieni Piirustusnäyttely" ("A Tiny Drawing Exhibition") is now opened in Säynätsalo Library, Jyväskylä!

The site of this exhibition is a great one: the famous Säynätsalon Kunnantalo (Säynätsalo Town Hall) by Alvar Aalto (photo: www.rakennusperintö.fi):

I had two assistants in the construction session: my wife Sanni (left) and our library official Tiiu (right):

I will thank both ladies!

More photos in next posts....

Greetings to all Future Ladies!

There lives a small feminist in every man! I will therefore dedicate this drawing to all ladies, no matter how old they are, who are brave enough to look into the coming days, no matter the situation in our world is far from peaceful today.

Open the door! It's summer!

Actually it's the end of September just now but I will recall summer 2008! You can see my wife sitting on the door of our summer cottage in Central Finland in this colour-pen drawing. The door is not broken (it was only my imagination) but we had a feeling that it was a real summer, in the beginning of June, and we were extraordinary happy!

This summer (2015) began not so tempting because the cold and rainy weather. It continues with a dry late July - beginning of August which caused us a lack of mushrooms.  

There are still two days left to visit my exhibition in Petäjävesi Library. Be hurry! Next exhibition will be hung 1.10.2015!

"More drawing", says everybody!

Very many friends have encouraged me to continue drawing, and I agree!

I have now tried several techniques from pencils to oil (not water colors - I was frightening them already during my school years!) and I think that it is time to focus on pencils. "Life is too short to learn painting". Maybe I will have an opposite opinion later, but just now....

I will thank my friends for their comments - especially Liisa! We went to my exhibition in Petäjävesi and she wrote in the guest book: "Draw, Juha, Draw"!

Water-soluble colour pencils are a novel method for me and I start practicing with them. I'll send some results here soon....

"Colour My World!" sang PETULA CLARK on sixties! I am listening her and still miss colours....

Some harmful defects in drawings.

Harmful errors and accidents can spoil your drawings - be careful!

The drawing on the left side was drawn by me in the middle of sixties, during my art class in Imatran Yhteislyseo (Imatra High School). We went to the Imatrankoski Rapids (beneath Imatrankoski Power Plant, the waters of rapids are therefore dammed). Marker felt pens were a novel tool on those days, and I used two of them, both black, when doing this work.

But! After 50 years it seems that another dye has got a new, brownish appearance! I really do not know if it is a bad or good transformation, but originally it was intended to be all B&W! 

Be careful, use only one pencil!

The right drawing has got an absolutely bad treatment by a leak of some kind diluting agent. The passepartout can be replaced but the corrections of the drawing are very hard to perform. 

Be careful when using diluting agents! 

More photos of my exhibition in Petäjävesi Library, September 2015

Photo 1. Three techniques: colour pencils, acrylic colours and oil colours.

Photo 2. B&W drawings made with calligraphy felt-tip pens (1,2 and 3 mm). Upper work: The Old Church of Petäjävesi, an UNESCO Heritage target.

Photo 3. Calligraphy felt-tip pens with colour pencils.

Photo 4. Works with acrylic colours. The landscape on the right bases on a photo from the island of Karpathos, Greece, and shows the oldest building which I have ever visited!

Photo 5. Entrance of Petäjävesi Library.