Painting #8

Mountain valley
Oil on canvas
60x80cm


With this painting I tried to study how to paint the mountains and rocks. Before I started to paint the mountains, I looked many different mountain's pictures on google.  I think all the colors on this painting work well together.
This painting was unbelievably fun for me. I look forward to paint something similar like this.

Painting #7

The mysterious trees
Oil on canvas
60x80cm

This painting is also from my imagination. My favourite part of the painting is the background trees. I spent a lot of time on these trees. I also love those red trees.
The bridge was really difficult to paint since I didn't have really small brush for it. Guess I have to purchase some if I continue painting the little details.

Painting #6

True love
Oil on canvas
60x80cm

I had a vision about this painting in my mind. So I started painting the trees on the background. Then I painted a lake and later the trees. I really enjoyed painting the swans and the bridge because I haven't paint them before. It was fun to paint so many flowers. My favorite parts of the painting are the trees.

Painting #5

Tiger
Oil on Canson pape
65x50cm

I have seen some really beautiful tiger paintings on Facebook and I also wanted to make one. I searched for the reference photo and finally I found a picture from the group: Artist reference photos. Thank you Kaz Turner!
First of all I painted the tiger. It took me a lot of time to mix the right colors for the fur. After I finished painting the tiger, I was thinking what to do with the background. Finally I decided to make night sky since I haven't done it before. And I also added grass. I learned that its really difficult to paint fur. I guess I have to watch some more fur painting videos on youtube.

Work in progress video of painting #4

Painting #4

The sunset
Oil on canvas
60x80cm
SOLD

I got the reference photo from deviantart. Thank you Cybrea-Stock for this lovely photo.
This is the first time I painted the boat. I was totally out of the comfort zone with this painting. Most of the time I thought that I might ruin the painting because of the boat.I really love the colors of the painting.
When I finished the painting then I realised that the trees are looking much better than on the previous paintings. I think the painting turned out pretty well.

Painting #3

Untouched island
Oil on canvas
60x80cm

It's no secret that I have a love towards mysterious and secret places, just like this untouched island. I really enjoyed  listening violin music during the painting. Lindsay Stirling has some really good songs which I love to listen. While I'm listening her songs, I'm sort of in the other dimension and this is when the creativity jumps in.
I was really drawn to this reference photo which I found on deviantart.com. I decided it would make a good painting. Thank you Cindysart-Stock for this amazing stock photo. Such a talented woman.
Apparently I still have to learn how to paint trees but in the end of the day I'm quite happy with  how this painting turned out.

Painting #2

Secret lake
Oil on canvas
60x80cm
SOLD

For this painting I went through many stock pictures on deviantart and finally I found one stock photo which kind of spoke to me. I decided to paint this because it looks so beautiful and mysterious at the same time. The reference photo is from Cindysart-Stock on deviantart. She has some really beautiful stocks there. I learned that painting a lake  is not so easy. The colors of this painting are so beautiful. I love how they look. I had so much fun with this painting.

50 paintings in 1 year

I have seen many artists doing the daily painting movement and I thought that I should also do something like this. I decided to make 50 paintings in 1 year.

The plan is to make approximately 3-4 paintings in a month. Some month even more, depending on the size of the painting and the difficulty. So I started the painting on the 10th of June.  The reason for this challenge is.-I'd like to grow as an artist. In other words my goal is to paint different things, hopefully get better and learn some new tehniques along the way.

This challenge also requires to be more focused and disciplined and I have to learn to manage my time better. Also this means that I will start posting here frequently and maybe I will overcome my writing block.
I look forward to this challenge and I hope that you enjoy following along.

So now is the time to present you the painting #1

The lonely tree
Oil on canvas
40x50cm

I wanted this painting to look dark and mysterious and I used dark colors to create it. I also learned that its very difficult to create realistic looking grass and tree. I will certainly try to improve my skills on those things in the future.

Lovely dog pastel drawing

This time I wanted to draw a dog. So I was searching for some reference photos and this is what I found.  This dog looks so adorable. I just had to draw him. I got the reference photo from: Artist Reference group on facebook. Thank you Bill Muck for this picture.

With this drawing I learned to use the soft pastels and to blend colors together. I hope you like it.