Character: Haraya the Winter Crown (2009)

Published on October 8, 2016October 8, 2016 by Avalkis

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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.

Stamp series (2009)

Published on September 26, 2016April 7, 2023 by Avalkis

stamps_mini A series called Sepia.

stamps_angels Angels.

stamps_spring Encounters in Spring.

stamps_flapsticks stamps_sandwind Flapsticks and Wind of the Sand.

Etching: Raion the Deer (2006)

Published on September 25, 2016September 26, 2016 by Avalkis

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Raion the Deer from the Springbringer world. Etching 16×18 cm. There are 11 prints.

Etching: Kantele Swan (2008-09)

Published on September 25, 2016October 4, 2016 by Avalkis

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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.

Pastel: Fire Angel in the Room of the Forest (2009)

Published on September 25, 2016April 7, 2023 by Avalkis

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Fire Angel in the Room of the Forest / Metsänhuoneen palava enkeli (2009), color pastels, 29×41 cm.

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 personal motif and symbol of life and love the Springbringer. A flower that awakes everything.

Painting: Black Firebird (2006)

Published on September 25, 2016 by Avalkis

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Mixed technique, 21×29 cm.

Drawing: Is It a Bird? Or Is It a Flower? (2016)

Published on September 25, 2016September 26, 2016 by Avalkis

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Color pencils, 10×15 cm. A Mother’s Day card.

Character: Sprite of Spring (2002-11)

Published on September 25, 2016April 7, 2023 by Avalkis

Sprite of Spring or the Springbringer or Calÿaja (in fictional language) 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).

Here are various manifestations of this fragile flower-like being of light:

an etching aquatint: A Garden of Stars (2009), 11×25 cm
a digital work made from a water color painting (2009), used as a poster for the Springbringer film
a color pencil drawing (2011), 10×15 cm
a clay statue (2007), 21x17x15 cm
comic book pages where the Sprite meets Qwaidun the swan (2002-09)

Etching: Leopard (2006)

Published on September 25, 2016October 4, 2016 by Avalkis

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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 :).