Nereid (70cm x 70cm, acrylic paint on canvas) |
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sunnuntai 29. heinäkuuta 2012
Nereid
Here's my newest painting called "Nereid". In greek mythology Nereids are sea nymphs. I wanted to paint a dancelike pose underwater...and I'm actually quite happy with the end result :) the painting is a bit bigger than my usual stuff.
lauantai 14. heinäkuuta 2012
Tribute to Gustav Klimt
Google reminded me today that it's been 150 years since Gustav Klimt was born. I love his unique work and once I have attempted to do a copy of one of his paintings. Here is my version of the famous "Mäda Primavesi" painting. It's a learning experience for me to do copies like this... in this I learned to paint with brighter colours and more loose than normally. Also it was different to paint such a childlike face.
Mäda Primavesi copy by Nadja Mikkilä (2009) |
perjantai 13. heinäkuuta 2012
Summer roadtrip to Estonia
Me and a couple of friends did recently a nice roadtrip to Estonia. We visited the cities Tallinn, Kuressaare and Haapsalu. The only thing we had planned beforehand were the hotels/hostels. Otherwise it was just driving around and visiting nice places spontaneously. All in all it was a perfect trip. Beautiful sunny weather, great company and awesome places. There is not much else you could ask for :)
I don't know what else to say. I guess pictures say more than a thousand words...so here are some pics :)
here are some spider pics from Estonia that I posted previously: link
I don't know what else to say. I guess pictures say more than a thousand words...so here are some pics :)
here are some spider pics from Estonia that I posted previously: link
Me and my travel companions :) |
Kuressaare beach |
Saaremaa |
Haapsalu |
Haapsalu |
Haapsalu castle |
Kuressaare castle |
old harbour in Saaremaa |
old drugstore sign in Haapsalu |
keskiviikko 11. heinäkuuta 2012
New painting "Anguish"
tiistai 10. heinäkuuta 2012
Spiders and castles
Last week we did a little roadtrip to Estonia. We visited the cities Tallinn, Kuressaare and Haapsalu. I will be posting more photos later but here are a few very gloomy photos to start with (although actually our trip was extremly sunny and happy).
Anyway...here is a little photo series called "spiders and castles". We visited the castle area in Kuressaare (Kuressaare castle: link ) at night and there were a lot of orb weaver spiders on a bridge. I took these pics with my mobile phone. I was so fascinated by all the spiders that my travel companions eventually had to drag me away from them ;) Apparently nobody else liked the spiders as much as I did :D
As a child when I lived in Germany I used to collect spiders. I used to search the nearby area for the biggest orb weaver spiders (European garden spider: link ). If I didn't have a bucket with me I used to carry the spiders home in my fists. When I look back as an adult to my childhood hobby I have to shudder a bit. Spiders still fascinate me but they also give me unpleasant goosebumps.