Facebook header illustration to announce that I am leaving for the Alps in a few days for a week or so. So I though of something that would remind my friends of the place I went to through the image of this rural mountain cottage wall typical for alpine village landscapes.

some early stuff

Kuhmo skyline. 2009.

Peony. 04.2009. Some negative shaping and then light-to-dark painting.

colors

This one we started with my 1 year and 7 month old son earlier today, he did a few broad strokes with 2 inch flat brush and then we had a long break, I've finished it a few minutes ago, when he has been already sleeping. It is a brief color study with scratching, mixing colors on paper, glazing and blending, wet in wet, wet on dry, painting wood and stone walls technics - just a quick refresher made with good old Saint Petersburg watercolors and 3 brushes: half inch flat/ 2 inch flat and a rigger.