Croquis

 

1-3 minuutin croquis -piirroksia hiilellä ja tussilla

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1-3 min charcoal ja indian ink croquis drawings

Luonnostelua

 

 

Valokuvia matkani varrelta, piirroksia taidehistorian luennolta ja tekeillä oleva reliefi.

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Drawings made at art history classes, photos taken on the road and a pic of a clay modeling in process.

Wings of a Fairy

The illustrations above are from a fairytale called PESSI and ILLUSIA. 

It  is my favorite fairytale;

because of its humanity - 

there is some good, some evil and something in between...

there is joy, fear, humour and beauty and mystery and truth..

And I LOVE the fascinating, delicate illustrations by Aleksandr Lindeberg.

 

ps. Some years ago the dancing daughter performed the role of the spider in a Pessi & Illusia ballet  at the Conservatoire of Dance in Tampere.

 She said it was an intriguing thing to do, far more exciting than other roles..

 

There has been several versions of Pessi and Illusia done in ballet , see how the charming little dance theater Glims&Gloms did it: 

Pessi and Illusia by the dance theater Glims and Gloms

 

the dancing daughter as a spider, 2009, Tampere Conservatoire of dance

Fairytale

is the theme of this week´s drawing challenge

see Tatjana´s beautiful blog Kleiner Salon for all the participants of the week

  

  from the fairytale land I picked with me the fallen wings of a fairy

and those I have been drawing -

wishing at the same time that my "wings" will hang on and help me to make my dream come true

Wings of a Fairy, charcoal and brown pastels on paper, photographed in my garden

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More about the book Pessi and Illusia by Yrjö Kokko ( in case you are interested )

 ..A book by Finnish officer Yrjo Kokko written during World War II, this enchanting fantasy tale is about Illusia, a little fairy like Tinker Bell, who comes down to earth from the rainbow where she lives with her family, and meets Pessi, a gnome living in the forest. The time is World War II and when they first meet, the soldiers in the area are anticipating an attack along their front line - but as the story evolves, Pessi and Illusia's only real enemy seems to be the nasty Spiderman  and White Death  - nothing a good fairy and gnome cannot ultimately overcome...

..Yrjö Kokko (1903-1977) published his much-applauded book, Pessi ja Illusia in 1954. He first wrote it as a short fairytale during the Continuation War, to be included in a Christmas bulletin as a gift for his children. As the war continued, he enlarged it into a longer work, which is the book for which Kokko is most remembered today.
Kokko is referred to as the saviour of fairies and swans. This is because his other notable achievement was his work to save the Finnish national bird, laulujoutsen, the whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) from extinction.
The fairy , Illusia, and the troll  Pessi lived among the plants and animals in the forest, while the war raged on around them. Pessi´s father, the Great Pessimist, believed that people are too blindly trusting of the future. Illusia´s father, the Grand Illusionist, on the other hand, wove a web of hopes and dreams from people´s imaginations. Without that web of hope, no one would dare to live a single day on this earth.
From the love of Pessi and Illusia was born a new human, who was neither a troll nor a fairy. Perhaps Kokko was hoping that a new humanity would emerge after the war.
In life, both cruelty and beauty are truths, muses Illusia. So why, from these two truths, do we always have to choose the ugly truths? Why not choose the beautiful ones?
That´s something that the news media would also be well-advised to ponder."

Piirtämisestä

Palasin perusasioitten äärelle ja elävän mallin croiquis -piirtämiseen kerran viikossa.
Piirtäminen on  mukavaa ja haastavaa taas pitkästä aikaa.
Keskimmäisessä kuvassa pari 3 minuutin tussi-croquis´ta vähän kaiverretun puupiirroslaatan päällä.
Kaksi muuta kuvaa ovat valokuvia pajan ikkunasta.
Kaivertaminen taltalla puulevylle (koivuvanerille) on se piirtämisen osuus puupiirroksessa.
Viiva eli "kynän" jälki, on siinä lajisssa tietenkin rouheampaa.
Tarkoitus on jatkossa siirtää joitakin elävän mallin piirustuksessa syntyneitä juttuja puupiirroksiin
- saa nähdä mitä siitä sitten tulee.

piirtämisestä aiemmin tässä blogissa/ earlier in this blog about drawning
croquis

Drawing
Back to basics: I started to draw croquis in a class once a week.
Drawing is fun but hard. In the future I´ll combine the ideas of croquis in my wood cuts.
Let`s see what happens:)