Hello

I put some of my paintings and drawings on sale as prints (and some as iPhone cases, laptop skins, etc): [link]
Have a look if you're interested! Thank you!

Hello

I put some of my original paintings on sale: [link]
Take a look if you are interested.
Thank you!

And thank you for the recent watches, faves, comments, etc. They are all really appreciated!

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INFO

Size: A5
Material: 300 m/g2 coldpressed watercolor paper, painted with watercolor or drawn with pencil.
Price: 42 EUR, includes wrapping and shipping to everywhere. Payment via Paypal, in Finland via bank transfer.

What to do: Send me a note including your shipment address, paypal name and short description of what you want me to draw/paint for you. I'll send me paypal-address in return.

You can tell me these facts in another note, because I will choose 3 first ones and writing descriptions takes time:
Go through my gallery/tumblr ([link] to see what I do best and how I render characters (what I like and what I think I draw the best are children, young adults and animals, especially canines and horses). Tell me if you have certain kind of set-up, mood, color scheme, etc. in mind and I'll do my best to execute it to paper. If you want commission to be about your character, tell me a little bit of how they are and what sort of environment they could live in. Reference pictures are helpful too. No character limitations / extra charges - more characters just mean less background-detail.

I will start working when the payment shows in my account. I wont send sketches or WIPs to the commissioner to see, but I will do the painting/drawing so many times I'm happy with it. I'm hoping the commissioner trusts my judgement.

Slots & status:

Part 1
1. ~swinsea - a lion and a girl - paid - done: [link]
2. *koyamori - a child reading in a treehouse full of books with a creature-friend - paid - done: [link]
3. ~meerle - a girl and a foxcreature in old museum - paid - done: [link]

Part 2
1. ~cercueil-de-fleurs - a girl in a flowergarden - paid - done: [link]
2. ~blind-fate - a girl on beach with two dogs - paid - done: [link]
3. *Rozenng - a girl and a cat - paid - done: [link]

Thank you all so much!

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Finally:


Favorite materials:

Brushes:
Raphaël watercolor sized 6 & 3
Hanart watercolor sized 8

Paper:
Aquarelle Arches 300 g/m2 cold pressed

Paint:
Schmincke Horadam aquarelle
Talens gouache

Other:
Winsor & Newton masking fluid
Candle wax

For digital finishing Photoshop CS5


Painting process

I draw the sketch of the painting straight on the watercolor paper. Most of the time it is just a rough idea of what I want and where, and the details come in as I paint.

My painting process takes approximately 1-8 hours depending what is the size of the painting and how detailed it is. I rarely paint anything bigger than A4, and most of my paintings are something between A5 and A4.

I prefer to finish the painting same day as I started it - I get anxious and bored easily, if the painting takes more than one evening to finish. It also tells me that my vision is somehow working if I have a smooth, quick flowing mood while I'm painting.


Use of masking fluid and waxes

I use masking fluid if I want something to stay completely white in the painting. Nowadays I rarely use it, because it takes too much time to dry, it easily ruins the brushes and it can damage the paper and the painting when removing it, especially when using rough cold pressed paper.

If I want to make a rough,  "aggressive" texture, I use candle wax. I rub it on a dry, clean paper with actual colorless candle. Paint doesn't stick to wax, so it will make nice texture which can be used to represent mist, snow, watersplashes, etc. Candle wax is nice to use because it is dry - some of the other waxes such as vaseline and so can be wet and sticky and mess the colors.


Commissions, art-trades, requests?

I'm opening few commissions when I know I have time to work on them. Unfortunately I cannot promise to do any art-trades because of the lack of time. Requests can be done, but I won't make any promises to execute them.


Copyrights

My paintings cannot be used in any commercial work or in any context to make money with out my permission. Commissions, gifts, prints and such are for personal use only.  If you use my painting to illustrate your blog, facebook-page or so, I would appreciate if you would link my dA-page as a source.


I hope this was somewhat informative.

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I'm selling some postcards:


One package is 13 EUR. It includes 7 different A6-sized cards, printed on glossy 300 g/m2 paper. The cards are printed both sides, with the address lines on the back side. Wrapping costs are included to the price.

If you are interested to purchase, please do it here: [link]

Suomessa käy tilisiirto, jolloin voi ottaa yhteyttä notella, jossa on postitusosoite. Paluuviestinä tulee tilinumero, ja paketti lähtee postiin kun suoritus näkyy tilillä.

Thank you very much!

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Here's the information how to order my calendar for the year 2012:


TERMS:

Calendar size is 21 cm x 15 cm. Cover + 12 pages.

Price is 18 EUR + SHIPPING FEE to your country. Wrapping costs are included to the price.

Delivery will take 1-3 weeks (or more if you order the calendar closer to christmas).

Payment via PayPal or bank transfer inside Finland.


HOW TO ORDER:

Send me a note where you tell me your full address and the name you use at PayPal and I'll give my PayPal address and the costs of the shipping fee in return. Send me a note also when you've done the payment so I know to check my Paypal-account! I send the calendar when the payment shows in my account.

Suomen sisäisissä tilauksissa annan tilinumeroni Paypal-osoitteen sijasta.


SAMPLE PAGES:




Thank you everyone who have been interested and encouraging about this project! It has been fun.

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