Night Painting

Hi hi!

It's 1:30 am and I was wondering whether I should or should not write this blog post, but then again since I'm up anyway, why not?

 I came home at around 9:30 this evening and decided to finish an artwork that I started during the summer in Sri Lanka, brought it to Finland, and had left it very very unfinished. As you can see the stage of what I continued with, please do take into consideration that I didn't have many paint brushes available in Sri Lanka and most of the painting happened with my fingers...(oh oh, which is also the reason I mixed some oil pastels on top of the paints...an experiment I had..)

Yea I was not happy with this...which probably is the reason why I dumped it for a while.

Now when I decided to continue it today.. I ended up starting all over:

Even though the bottom paint was wet I sketched the outlines with black paint. I used acrylics, by the way:)

When the outlines are done, it's time to add some detail!

 The pinkie got an operation done.

Aaand this is what I ended up with:

I am going to challenge you!!! If you like painting, drawing, editing...any form of art, and you have an unfinished work at the back of your head. During the starting week, get it done!:) It feels goood! :)

Peace peace peace and goodnight everyone.

At the railway tracks

The girls' solu!

The only thing I can really say about this group.. amazing. I love these girls and also the few that are missing from this picture! These people have got so much heart and energy, and you can only be inspired by them.

Sorry Keshia, you may be only pleased that I didn't put the picture of you here:) <3 Hence I drew you:

And again sorry for making you look like a constipated professor.

Prince sure was happy when the house was full of girls;)

My future car.

That's that for today, unfortunately I don't have the awesome pictures of our amazing food but oh well, the night was good! thank you all <3

peace and goodnight.!

(Sad) self portraits in the middle of the night ft. damien rice

I've officially fallen in love with this man. I must give credits to Gyula though, for first introducing me to this amazing singer. Anyway, This song wouldn't stop playing in my head, when I got an inspiration for some portraits, and since no one else was around, I had to photograph myself...which is pretty sad...but anyway..here are the outcomes of yesterday night:

Cheers!

Märän syksyn märkä kauneus

Long time no see. Taas. Tässä kuitenkin ihan muutama kuva vain tältä päivältä, nyt kun mulla on jeejee uus puhelin niin sen myötä tuli myös parempi kamera joka nyt kulkee jokapaikassa mukana! hienoa, hienoa.

Täs me painijat ja sen sivustakattoja!

General wondering [music]

The feeling of your own bed, hot shower and proper food after 4 nights of camping is ridiculously amazing. Something I learnt (or rather, got reminded of) ; appreciate the freaking luxury we have!!!

That's that.

Midsummer conference was better than good, I can only wonder how it didn't rain until the last day :o
All that happened there, just makes me think how amazing our God is.

Anyway, the shot of reality suddenly broke through my head yesterday - Monday morning. Even though I did get ten hours of sleep I was exhausted, almost fell asleep on the chair I was working on. Today was much better! :)

We are heading towards my main point of this blog post, which is related to work though. Dam daum duuu.

I was listening to the radio and I heard something about Jukka Poika (for those who don't know, he's a finnish reggae artist), and I all of a sudden remembered the first song I ever heard from him:

It made me wonder, that when I heard about this dude, to be honest I thought he was just a joke, which this song of course is:D (Im sorry you non finnish speakers you wont be able to understand, hold on we're moving on to something you'll be able to know better).

Okay so.

Why are there artists, that have become famous with a certain song, but when you actually research them further, the songs they did when they were less known, were better. And, no one knows about those songs! I've got you an example.

Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against this song:

I especially do appreciate their hot moves.

But hey, ladies and gentlemen who didn't know this, from the same artist:

(In my opinion I'd much rather listen to this second one...Check them out on youtube anyway, they have many songs similar to this if you liked it:) ... they should pay me for advertisement.) and I don't know why this is highlighed in white I can't fix it because there is no transparent background:O

Now this is just general wondering, I'm no music critique, but to me this sort of shows some kind of level of music we are appreciating today..?

That techno crap. or whatever.

No actually I do listen to those songs too, but it does make me sad to see all this computer made music (GENERAL wondering not just donkeyboy) take over the actual instrument music.

Anyway, there was the thought for the day:)
Peace <3

Glimpse of holidays and Konffa

One does not simply mistake this as an instagram photo taken
with iPhone, which it turned out looking like.

Hoi!

It's been ages since I last posted. That is because I've been superbusy with work and seeing friends, and surprise surprise I haven't spent much of my nights at the computer:--) That should be crystal clear, I mean, look at the weather!!! Amazing..

Though it's summer and holidays, we as IB students have got a research essay to work on, which I actually should be doing as I write this.

Okay so the big news is that I'm leaving to Sri Lanka, my second home, in 23 days!! I've been talking to some of the closest friends I can't wait to meet, and they unfortunately or fortunately I don't know, add into my previously existing ENTHUSIASM. I am SUPER excited!!! In the middle of all this excitement, I've been doing some painting...:)

One thing about me and my works; I never like to plan too much. I just go for it, get my starting point from somewhere (a picture in this case), but I never plan it out with a pencil etc. Even if it sounds weird, I like the process to be there, even if it cannot be seen. When painting with paints (usually acrylic for me), the previous paint layer can be covered, but it's still there. This fascinates me. I'll show you an example (I should have started taking photos from the very beginning..sorry.)

Okay so I am very very impatient with my paintings, and even this was made to the third step from these photos on the first night, another night I just made some small adjustments..
That's also probably the truth behind me not drawing with a pencil too much... requires a loot of patience..:(
I give my respect to at least one friend I know that really takes time to make his drawings perfect no matter how long it takes!

BUT MORE EXCITING THINGS ARE HAPPENING!!!

The MidSummer confrerence is starting next week!! The "Juhannuskonffa" :) If you're going, what do you wait from it? I know what I do... I shall get to that once I've shortly explained what this awesome summer thingy is ! For those who don't know, it's held in Keuruu (<33), in Iso Kirja. It starts on the 20th of June, and lasts from that Wednesday till Sunday. It's full of awesome services for all ages, good food (the pizza and pancakes are a must). Now everybody google where it is because I'm not sure what the address is, and I shall see you there.

http://www.isokirja.fi/konferenssikeskus/juhannuskonferenssi_2012/

So what do I wait from it?

• Walking across the field and spotting friends I haven't seen in a long time
• Going for pizza with a bunch of people
• Going around the booths and getting stuck talking to people
• Sit around and be lazy on the field
• Sense and enjoy the atmosphere, simply amazing
• Make new friends!

The smell of sausages and pizza in a slightly cold summer night, when it doesn't get dark at all is just remarkable.

I'll see you there, peace <3