January goes BW

 

While photographing some of my latest paintings, I tried how it all looks black and white 

( plus a glimpse of sepia ) and here we go!

Oh, this time of year with bright, cold, sunny days, fluffy white snow and blue sky fills me with joy and energy.

Have a wonderful week end!

Winter

It has been very cold but so beautiful. I love the increasing light and whiteness.

Lepää rauhassa, talvi

About winter

Vuokko Hovatta, Lepää rauhassa talvi

Winter Wonderland

Enjoying white landscape with family and friends,

hope you are having Happy Holidays as well!

White Christmas

 

We did get a wonderful, white Christmas: it is so beautiful!
It was nice to have family round the table having dinner and playing games.
Hope you are having a joyful Holiday as well!

Hei sit tammikuu

 

 

 

bye bye January

Valkoisempaa

Whiter.. and what a bright, beautiful winter day with some food of the season:
BLINIs!

A small pancake, of Russian origin, made from buckwheat flour; traditionally served with melted butter, sour cream and caviar or smoked salmon

instead of salmon or caviar you can have onions, capers or olives:)

have a wonderful Sunday

xo Leena

..ja vaikka tämä ei siis ruokablogi olekaan, on pakko jakaa blinivinkki: mädin ja kalan voi korvata oliiveilla ja kapriksilla.. punasipulia unohtamatta:)

Aurinkoista talvisunnuntaita toivotellen

Leena

Fine Day

 

 

 

Astrid Swan /Four Months to Kill

Sirkuksesta tulossa

..talvisirkuksesta

 

 

I am coming from a circus,
winter circus

Walking in the air

puupiirros/ wood cut 2012, 40 x 50cm LV

Walking in the air/ Rajaton

With this music and pics I wish all of my dear blog friends 

a Joyful Holiday Season and a Happy new Year!

I am taking a blog break, will be back in january,

take care, see you soon!

x leena

Talven tulo

 

Winter approach

Kimmo Pohjonen: Routa/Frost

Shadow

Norhern light gives me lots of possibilities to take shadow photos-

and that´s what I´ve done both in winter and summer.

The wood cut below looked at first only as a stain 

 but after a while I begun to see it as a shadow image and did not want to change it anymore.

Shadow

is the theme of this week´s drawing challenge. 

See more shadows via sweet Ariane´s schöne blog Rose

Ps.

Shadow in the history of art brings to my mind the surrealists .
They often tend to show long mysterious shadows in theis works.

The most famous Finnish surrealist is Otto Mäkilä
( I have written earlier about him in my blog, see here.)

Below you can see one of his shadow paintings:
He näkevät mitä me emme näe
(They see what we can not see )