Some stylized and decorated giclée prints

 Hello! How has your spring started? I hope you are enjoying the sun! I have started to stylize / decorate my artwork with computer for giclées. Here some examples.

Hei! Onko kevättä jo rinnassa? Olen käyttänyt viime päivinä aikaa kuvieni stailaukseen tietokoneella ja tehnyt muutamia taidevedoksia ( giclée printtejä ). Tässä muutama esimerkki,

Having a break with marketing but not with making art

Hello!

For the moment I am having a break with marketing etc. However because making art is my passion  I am all the time making new pictures. You can any time contact me if you are interested in giclée or other prints, wholesale, illustration or anything. I decided to not show whole  my gallery in internet anymore, but just ask by e-mail, if you want to see more of my artwork.

Have a nice time waiting for Christmas!

Making Fine Art Prints is Science. Test print is a must. / Taideprinttien teko on tiedettä. Tee ensin testiprintti

 

Make a painting, scan it or take a photo of it, print and sell.  That´s it. So simple. Or is it? Maybe something like that with my former simple inkjet printer. But not any more with the more complicated one, my pigment ink printer. I have been studying printing so much that I think could even give a lecture.  Pixels, dpi. Are they something to eat or what? Brightness? No, it doesn´t mean sunshine or happiness. Contrast? Saturation? Highlights? Gamma-value? CMYK? RGB? Does it mean something like ADHD? No?  Now I know it. And more.  Lately I have spent a lot of time trying to learn this kind of things, as a goal to make as good prints as possible.  And have made tens of test prints. It is a must. Before the final print it is obligatory if you want to get the best possible result. But the test print can be pretty and small. And you can use it later if it is good. Its the means to recall how managed to make that great print years ago. ICC profiles and especially customed ones help, but in my opinion it doesn't mean that you then necessarily make great prints without any effort. 

Above you can see some of my test prints of which many are very succesful. However none of the prints taken of the same picture is identical because the adjustement is different. I have also updated my site and Siklee shop and I begin to download Christmas prints there one by one.

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Maalaa maalaus, skannaa se tai ota siitä kuva, printtaa ja myy. Siinä se. Yksinkertaista. Vai onko? Ehkäpä jotain sinnepäin vanhalla mustesuihkutulostimella, muttei enää uudella pigmenttimuste- tulostimella. Jos sillä haluaa saada kaikista kuvista laadukkaita on paras perehtyä tarkkaan pikseleiden, dpi ym maailmaan. Mikä ero noilla kahdella muuten on? Ja mitä väliä? No on todellakin väliä! Säädä sitten kontrasia, kirkkautta, saturaatiota, värejä, ääriviivoja, gammaa jne jne. Nykymaailma on täynnä kirjainyhdistelmiä ADHD, AIDS, DVD....Mitä sitten tarkoittaa CMYK tai RGB? No, nyt senkin nyt tiedän. Ja monta muuta asiaa. Niin hyvin, että voisin vaikka pitää luennon aiheesta. Ja testiprinttejä pitää tehdä. Ennen jokaista kuvaa. Mutta ne voivat hyvinkin olla pieniä ja sieviä ja niillekin varmasti löytyy käyttöä, jos ovat onnistuneita. Sitä paitsi ainakin parhaan lopputuloksen tuottanut kannattaa säilyttää vastaisen varalle, koska sen avulla voit palauttaa mieleen, miten teit sen tosi hyvän printin vuosia sitten. ICC profiileista eli tulostusprofiileista, varsinkin laitekohtaisista on hyötyä, mutta nekään eivät takaa sitä, ettetkö joutuisi myös tekemään lisäsäätöjä.

Yllä olevassa kuvassa on joukko testiprinttejä. Yksikään samasta kuvasta hieman eri säädöin otettu printti ei ole ihan samanlainen. Päivitin myös sivustoni ja Siklee kaupan ja alan ladata viime mainittuun yksi kerrallaan joulukuvia.

On time with my Musician Christmas Elves

Hello! Last year I started to paint my Musician Christmas Elves in November. This year I am on time, started  a couple weeks ago with these two more elves: flutist and accordionist. I  just should put colors on them. I have however - as usual - quite many oher unfinished paintings or drawings. Some flowers have been waiting since last summer ... I have even made a plan what I intend to do during this year. Doesn´t that sound ornanized for an bohemian artist! It is just easier - if you think and put it on the paper - to find out what is realistic.

At the Blueberry Time: About the background of the painting Art Nouveau Cat

It´s  the time of blueberries, so good to tell a little about the backgound of my picture "Art Nouveau Cat". I have already shared it in Google+ quite many times. The cat there is called Mathilda (sister of Mindo). It is quite a typical painting of mine at the time: I like for the first to combine realism - sometimes even photorealism - with fantasy and for the second make some objects with finel details and others approximate. In this painting the cat is painted in a very realistic way. In fact Mathilda looks quite exactly like that. The blueberries are simplified/stylished and make a good contrast with the yellowish background. The leaves of the lilies of the valley are quite redused, not much more than outlines  and two colors. It wasn´t my meaning to leave them so plain, but I think nothing more is needed in this painting. And the beautiful red - but poisoneus ! - berries have here an important  visual role. For the third: typical for me is that what the painting becomes in the end might often be quite much different from the one I sketched and planned. New ideas come when you paint. By the way often the best way to get ideas is to just start drawing something and the ideas just come;  rather than sit and try to seek the right mental creative artistic state of mind. For the fourth I have added here ornaments on the bottom. I like ornaments and decorations. I have left on purpose the lines not-straight. just because I have always preferred free línes. I never use ruler. But I admit that when I scetched the layout of the enlargement of my cottage for the architect, it looked better drawn with the help of the ruler...

But blueberries. They taste excellent as berries or in the form of blueberry-pie! And it is plenty of them arround my cottage. I should pick 1 litre per day. Already have 4 litres.

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Wood Folk "Dragonfly Man" and recent news

It´s been long time since I wrote here. Well the spring went partly in "studying" entrepreneurship. I have launched  a Company of my own, named Siklee.  Comes from the french word giclée pronounced in finnish.

And I had not less than 4 exhibitions in June. One of them in the library of Sello is still continuing till 8.7.1016.

Been also planning to convert my cottage to my home  within a year, or at  least  make my cottage more comfortable to live also in wintertime. Some enlargement and comforts are needed. I´m waiting for the architectural drawings.  We´ll see see how it will go.
I have  also continued my series of "Wood Folk". I put here "The Dragonfly man". "Flower Girl" is the next but needs some finishing. The point in these drawings is to cover the surfaces with structure - without so many outlines - in stead of coloring. Have to confess that got the idea from an ink-drawing course. As an example of this style was mentioned Tove Jansson´s ink drawings.

Carnival, flamenco, charleston and ballet dancers ready / Karnevaali-, flamenco-, charleston- ja balettitanssija valmiit

So far 4 dancers in my series of "Dancers". There are still missing at least oriental dancer, river dancer, country western dancer, also males...with time. Maybe also Finnish Folk Dancers, or a whole series of them, favourite dresses...
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Tähän mennessä 4 tanssijaa "Tanssijat" - sarjassa. Seuraavaksi tulee napatanssija, ja ...sitten varmaan vuorossa River Dance, Country & Western, myös miestanssijoita.... ajan kanssa. Ehkäpä myös kansallispukuinen suomalaistanssija tai sitten kokonainen kansallispukusarja...suosikkipuvut?