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.
Color pastels, 42×30 cm.
Color pastels, 42×30 cm. From the post-apocalyptic world of Soulweaver.
Here is more about the film this dark scene is based on.
Mixed technique, 21×29 cm.
Color pencils, 10×15 cm. A Mother’s Day card.
Color pencils, 15×10 cm. From the Apokryfia book #10 Kappa the Kolor.
Winter Princess (5.2.2012). Wooden color pencils, 10×15 cm * 9. From the Apokryfia sketch books.
Flying Exercises | Lentoharjoituksia (2011). Wooden color pencils and ink, 10×15 cm. From the Apokryfia book #10 Kappa the Color.
Color pencils and ink, 10×15 cm. Inspired by Afrikan tähti (Star of Africa) board game, that is legendary in Finland. I have the original game by Kuvataide from 1950s in my collection which I inherited from my dear grand mother – she was an oil painter. We used to play the game a lot and I have fond memories of it. I also have the extremely rare Commodore 64 game adaptation (1986) made by Amersoft.
This art is from the Apokryfia sketch book #10 Kappa the Color where all the illustrations are in color, instead of mostly black and white of the other volumes.
By the way, Madagascar has traveled all the way to the exact opposite side of the “pool continent” here for some reason.
Fountain of Africa is from December 8th 2011 and it was a follow-up and based on the proximate black and white ink sketch from November 8th 2011. Mountains and some kind of a huge tree-sized plant make the surrounding setting in both and I picked the woman-motif and giraffe for the color work too,
The particular November-sketch on the other hand originates from my morphing graphic novel Apokryfia: Zeta (April 2011) — see the post Venus and the Dream Machine. There is a section happening in Africa with skeletons in the middle of the story where all this started from.
Pen drawing 21x 29 cm and a computer colorized version. Egypt, the Sphinx and pyramids have always inspired me. Notice the owl on top of the Sphinx and the All-Seeing Eye.
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:
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 :).