I recently taught an art course on impressionist painting. After the course one of the students asked me if I could make an impressionism checklist for the students to use later and review what they had learned. I said I could make a two-part list to be published as a blog post, with one part listing the stylistic features of impressionism and the other part providing instructions for creating an impressionist painting.
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My YouTube Playlists: Landscape and Art
This post is a compilation of my Youtube playlists of short videos on landscape and visual arts. The most videos are on the landscape playlist, a total of 52 short videos of places that I have found visually interesting and worth filming. In my short videos of artworks, which are on two different Youtube playlists, … Read more
Drawings and Paintings of System Alert series
System Alert Drawings and Paintings
System Alert is a series of artworks that includes drawings and watercolor paintings. The drawings are made with pencil, oil pastel or crayon. The tone of the works in the series is expressive, naive and abstract. In several works of the series, there is a figure-like shape consisting of parts resembling wall structures.
AI evaluating an artist’s production – interesting views or complete absurdism ?
Three questions from the artist about his production for Deep Ai artificial intelligence
This is a post where I asked the DeepAi text generator three questions regarding my own artistic production.
1-8Colors, a subset of paintings in the Breda series
1-8Colors is a sub-set of oil paintings within the Breda painting series that depict modified details from Diego Velázquez’s historical painting Surrender of Breda (Las Lanzas, 1633 – 1635).
Landscape Paintings From Munkkiniemi
Landscape paintings from Munkkiniemi is a series of oil and acrylic paintings whose subjects are views of the Munkkiniemi district in western Helsinki. The works of the series were exhibited at the end of 2023 at the Munkkiniemen Taidelainaamo – Art Gallery’s Paintings from Munkkiniemi – exhibition.
Two new oil pastel works for Our House – series
Our House 18 and 19 are oil pastel works in which I continue the series’ theme of alternating regular and free-form structures.
Development of one Gouache Painting Step By Step
This post is a description of the working stages of the gouache painting “Sculptures in Painting 04”. The painting is made with a brush on watercolor paper.
Gouache is a water-based paint that is similar to watercolor, but with a higher pigment concentration, resulting in a more opaque and matte finish. It is a popular choice for artists and illustrators due to its versatility and ability to be layered, blended, and reactivated with water even after it has dried.
Cardboard Sculptures and Net Paintings
I added pictures of my two older series of works here to the new site. The series are Cardboard Sculptures from 1995 and Net Paintings from 1993-4, 2015-2017. https://miikny.com/cardboard-sculptures/ https://miikny.com/net-paintings/