Haraya the Winter Crown | Haraja Talvikruunu (11.8.2009). Pencil, 11×15 cm.
Also known as The Crown King. A character from the fantasy world of New Nature in the Springbringer comic books. This sketch is from the Apokryfia book #1 Alpha.
Haraya the Winter Crown | Haraja Talvikruunu (11.8.2009). Pencil, 11×15 cm.
Also known as The Crown King. A character from the fantasy world of New Nature in the Springbringer comic books. This sketch is from the Apokryfia book #1 Alpha.
A series called Sepia.
Angels.
Encounters in Spring.
Flapsticks and Wind of the Sand.
I participated in a competition organized by Posti in 2009. I chose suitable works from my etchings, comic books and pen and pencil drawings. Some of the works were originally in black and white so I colorized them on computer. I also united the color schemes to match the pictures in a given stamp sheet.
Raion the Deer from the Springbringer world. Etching 16×18 cm. There are 11 prints.
An etching aquatint: Kantele Swan | Kantelejoutsen | Aurinkojoutsen (2008-09). 14×11 cm. Below is the pencil sketch.
I made this as a Finnish national-romantic theme with our national bird Whooper Swan (“laulujoutsen”) having our national instrument, kantele, as a wing. There is also a stamp with this motif I designed for a competition.
Fire Angel in the Room of the Forest / Metsänhuoneen palava enkeli (2009), color pastels, 29×41 cm.
This is one of my personal favorite works. It features the Sprite of Spring – this time in a bit more human-like feminine form. I’ve tried to re-imagine this scene later but sometimes you cannot replicate an inspired moment.
Themes of this impressionistic pastel drawing are nature and rebirth. The composition was originally inspired by Edgar Degas’ Dancer in Front of a Window (circa 1874). I’ve moved the scene into a much more abstract expression and replaced the dancer with my own personal motif and symbol of life and love the Springbringer. A flower that awakes everything.
Mixed technique, 21×29 cm.
Color pencils, 10×15 cm. A Mother’s Day card.
Sprite of Spring or the Springbringer or Calÿaja (in my fictional language) is one of my most important beings and characters. It represents life and rebirth in the world of Springbringer. It fell from space as a seed and landed on a pond of swans one ancient evening “3000 suns ago” and began to sprout.
I saw the Sprite in my dream on December 2002 (the comic book image where the sprite and the swan meet). I woke up and drew it so I could remember it.
Here are various manifestations of this fragile beautiful flower-like being of light:
Snow leopard -sketch and a final Black Leopard -etching. The etching was also supposed to be a snow leopard but I forgot it in the acid for too long a period and it became out as a black leopard :).
Etching 16×18 cm. The graphic series has 8 prints and they are differently colored.
Color on paper, 38×46 cm. Inspired by the stone lion statues in the castle of Mustio near Lohja, Finland.
Monotyping on a canvas, 52×55 cm. Skeleton of a swan meets a flying burning swan. Perhaps the flying swan sees its own mortality and falls inevitably in the tender blue embracing of the world.