Mikko Tyllinen`s Art Blog

2012-02-11T22:52:00.000-08:00

"Pink Rose"

Photo from my new project "winter magic"

~A little warmer than the glass, but the evil frost
I walked into the doors, like in the garden of July flowers
I want to warm them with warm, but the pink roses

Pink roses, Pink roses, the thorns are defenseless
what did with them made the snow and frost, ice blue windows
People decorate with you, own holiday only a few days
And leave you to die on a white, cold window"

Poem base on song: "Laskovyj Maj - Bielyje Rozy/Tender May - White Roses"
That was one of the best song of 80`s in USSR

New year's eve magic

2012-01-02T06:39:00.000-08:00

"New year's eve magic"

Photomanipulation 2011

Last work from 2011 :)

My dedication to all of you! ♥

If it didn’t Bring you Joy,
Just Leave it Behind.
Let’s Ring in the New Year
With Good Things in Mind.
Let Every Bad Memory Go
That Brought Heartache and Pain.
And let’s Turn a New Leaf
With the Smell of New Rain.
Let’s Forget Past Mistakes
Making Amends for This Year.
Sending You These Greetings
To Bring you Hope and Cheer
Happy New Year!

2011-11-13T05:38:00.001-08:00

"Anything But Love"

Photomanipulation from my old creations.

"So go on and fight me
Go on and scare me to death
Tell me I asked for it
Tell me I'll never forget
You could give me anything but love
Anything but love

Without any faith
Without any light
Can dare me to live
Can dare me to lie
Inside I am dead"

Got inspiration from Apocalyptica featuring Cristina Scabbia performing S.O.S.
(Anything But Love)

2011-10-31T10:47:00.000-07:00

"Halloween tea"

Photomanipulation from my old creations.2011

I didn’teven realize this at first place when I was creating this work, only after whenthis work was ready and I started to search for good name I realize that thisred dark work fit perfectly with Halloween, so there is the name Halloween tea!

Or like myone friend suggest this is: Tea of the Hell's Kitchen... hahahah!

This wasFeatured in absolutely fantastic collection on SHADOWNESS! Happenings in theArt World #11

And got aDaily Inspiration Feature!

My monochrome creations

2011-10-22T03:57:00.000-07:00

"Snowfall"

Thispicture is from few years back.. it was amazing day and so strange! Find thisplace I got such a hypnotic feeling like I am in some kind fairy tale! Everything looks so stable and still there isa sense of motions! Everything looks somysterious and peaceful! Silence reigns everywhere and only what can hearis own heart beat!

"Coffee time"

This is wastaken a few years ago..Place is a “Lapland hut/ kota” And the coffee wasprepared like true wilderness coffee in Lapland! If my translate right thiskind coffee called "Soot Coffee Pot / Nokipannukahvi" its boil on thefire. The fire gives unique smoke flavor. Someone may put there different herbfor more taste! That kind coffee definitely better than normal city coffee! It was truly divine! Really miss thattime what I was spend there!

"Memory from the past"

Well the nametells it all!

Magic in the air

2011-09-03T06:53:00.000-07:00

"Magic in the air"
Photomanipulation.

I just realize how this perfectly suit this work!

I got the goodies baked
Got more than you can take
Just try and nibble on my biscuits and my rainbow cake

Let's be traditional
And non commissional
Got my elbows down, pinkies up
That's the way you sip my cup

Welcome to the Tea Party!
Kerli – “Tea Party”

Hope of the morning

2011-08-17T06:59:00.000-07:00

"Hope of the morning"
Having fun with my old creations, actually there are 2 of my pieces that I have attached to one!

Do you see a dragon that spinning around the sailing ship almost like play with it! Oh there is also the others characters, open your mind and tell what you see!

Storm

2011-07-19T09:47:00.000-07:00

"Storm"
Oil on canvas.

Imagination about sea crossing in the past! How dangerous and at the same time in some ways romantic that adventure was!

Sea storm slowly captured the small sailing ship in to his own power! Imagining how crew felt at this moment! When feel like whole world against you, and there is nothing you can do, only fight with weather and try to keep ship above the surface and at right direction and hope that everything will be ok! It is a struggle between nature and humans without pity! Many of those men are real hero! Sail into the unknown it takes courage!

So here I wanted to create that atmosphere to show this straggle, this adventure!

Storm in a dream

2011-07-14T10:36:00.000-07:00

"Storm in a dream"
Oil pastel on paper.

Is it reality or not, but did you ever see the dreams when you sleep about storms! What they are, some kind warning from ours mind! Or it is a different reality.. we go sleep in this reality and wake up there to live the second life!?

Perhaps our really is a dream that we live, hope… And one day we wake up!

Really like the feeling here like you are looking through a frosted glass into another world. You can find here many characters it a really more surreal concept that tell the story then just a stormy seascape! Do you see the young woman or child face that watch on you from the depth of the sea? Or that white bird that flies in the sky and bring hope to the people who are in those boats!

Detail.

Here is one example of those details! The face that creating by the small details!

MY FIRST BLOG AWARD!

2011-07-14T09:42:00.000-07:00

Thank you Marcela from

Fashionadictas by Marcela

for my first award! I am very touched and honored!

For the one lovely blog award:
-thank and link the blogger who has given you the award.
-copy and paste the logo in your blog.
-share 7 things about yourself.
-nominate 8 other great bloggers.
-comment and let them know of the award.

1. Art is my life and passion!

2. I love the rainy day!

3. Dancing in the rain : ) do you remember this song?

4. Enjoy music and tea time!

5. Create magic whit colors!

6. Chocolate my second passion! : )

7. I am very happy to connect with my new blogger friends across the world!

My8 new discovered favorite bloggers are:

Lisa Gordon Photography
Don't Call Me Fashion Blogger!
Red Reidinghood
Valzer di emozioni
Karen!
Adventures of an Artist, Wife and Mom
True Colors
Nancy Goldman Art

I love you, my followers and my friends!

Magical tea time

2011-07-11T10:42:00.000-07:00

" Magical tea time"
Photomanipulation
Having fun with my paintings, actually here are few of my paintings that I have attached to one, and digital painting on them!

Today we at last have a rainy day! So I was very exiting about that and this is inspired me to create this beauty!

At first I didn’t have any idea what I want to do but then it just hit me! And when everything was in place this piece was created! After moment of thinking and searching for name and the idea what I made, I find that this remained me of teatime! Maybe in some ways even “Alice in Wonderland”. Everything so dreamy, mysterious even crazy in some ways, a perfect teatime!

All those details, faces surrealistic characters are absolutely awesome and saying the true.. Many of them I have found after this piece was ready! So open your mind and see those entire magical creatures that will join you on magical teatime! hahah! I know , I know to mad, I am today! Enjoy!

Gentleman

2011-07-10T04:31:00.000-07:00

                                                           "Gentleman" self portrait.
                                                                    81x65cm.
                                                               Oil on canvas.

This is a self portrait that a made many year ago! I wanted to paint myself in 1800 officer costume. I love wear like those! Imagining summer evening, fresh air blow from the sea brining some sweet scent of flowers! Thousands of candles illuminating space, everything glow of celebrations! Beautiful ladies, gentlemen, music, dances, delicious food, it is a really time full of magic and mystery feel like you are fly back in to the time!

Metamorphosis of day

2011-07-08T09:08:00.000-07:00

"Metamorphosis of day"
Oil on canvas panel.

Here i wanted to play with ordinary everyday’s objects! Bring them in to the life! Not exactly like Frankenstein but close to that! :) Every material, atoms in some ways are alive and create life! Its understandable when we speak about animals, humans et cetera.. . We are alive but what about trees or candle, bottle of Coca-Cola? There is coming more interesting to matter what I wanted to search in this painting! There is no permanent in our lives! Time fly away, everything change, reborn! That what now is reality sometimes ago was fairy tales, I think that’s including our future in some ways! But what happening if even for a moment or day, we in some strange ways are able to see all materials are alive! Is that would change our view on life or attitude to everything!?

We ourselves build our reality, and knowing world that we accept! But can it be something else?

Ruins

2011-07-06T08:22:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas.

Here I wanted to create something mysterious on summer motive!

It's still early day and it's not too hot and not to cool. Just perfect condition for adventure! That old ruins hold many secrets in themselves, even there is maybe somewhere hidden treasure! Or it’s just a perfect place to relax! What you think! What kind conception you have when you look at this painting!?

After the storm

2011-07-04T08:04:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas.

Saying the true I love the sea! It’s my passions! When you watch on this huge mass of water that moves feels alive its amazing feeling! And of course it very beautiful view! Specially its magical view on sunrises or sunsets, it always so beautiful and romantic! Here I wanted to recreate one of those special moments! Beautiful sunset after storm, when nature started to calm down before peaceful night!

Magic in the air

2011-07-03T03:13:00.000-07:00

Photomanipulation

Having fun with my paintings, actually here are few of my paintings that I have attached to one, and digital painting on them!

Springtime is full of wonderful surprises and I think one of my favorite times! When everything wake up from a long winter sleep and its feel like whole nature reborn! It’s a truly magical time, and I wanted to recreate some of this feeling about his this time, from different points of view!

Sweet dream

2011-06-30T07:36:00.000-07:00

Photomanipulation
I made this work from my paintings! Mostly photomanipulation and digital painting on them!

Usually it is very hard to me to name my work. Because there is always so many points of view and create short name that hold and open to viewer’s whole story is a very hard work! But here with this work it was a foregone conclusion how I named! “Sweet dream” tell everything, about my creation! Connection between people, timeless story of passion and tragedy of life!

Dream or reality

2011-06-29T09:42:00.000-07:00

Photomanipulation

Having fun with my old creations, actually here is 3 of my paintings that I have attached to one!

There is a wonder of Asian fairy tale and magic of ancient Egypt with some drops of beauty of fairies or maybe she is a mysterious queen that touch your heart with here wise thoughts and beauty! Are all those fascinating stories from fairy tales, myths, that we heart in our childhood are true even in some part or just a beautiful dream?! I would like to believe that in whole those stories there is a part that in some ways are true!

Dancing trees

2011-06-26T07:45:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas.

Have you noticed, that at the very cold winter sunny day, when you were a long time outside in freezing temperatures! You started seeing mirages; everything’s starting to seem so mysterious like in this painting! I was to long time outside and started feeling how trees started to dance! How awesome is that!?! Especially these two beautiful trees had a very gorgeous dance for me! I was so amaze about beauty of them that, I have decided to paint them!:o)

At the End of the Begining

2011-06-15T08:42:00.000-07:00

Acrylic on canvas

Here i wanted to try something new for me! I got inspiration for paint this painting from my teacher great painter Andrei Gennadiev! He have a very interesting style very different that mine, so I wanted to create here charge of mystery In symbol language! Here is a later that is the first letter in the alphabet and Omega that is the last letter in ancient Greece alphabet! So is start and finish, like our life beginning and end of it, or is it?! I've also added Egypt symbols of eternal life, godhead to create line between afterlife and mystery of idea of god and beauty of this world! What all this mean? is destiny exist or have a free will to do what we want to do! At all those lines, are the other persons that across our life in some ways or maybe they are the other worlds that exist in parallel reality!

Winter evening

2011-06-03T09:49:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas

Cold winter evening, slowly but surely approaching darkness! Tensions float in the air and create mysterious atmosphere! The sky looks like in the fire; its vivid colors highlight the cold on the land! Somewhere out there sight a village, that is already in deep sleep only in some windows still can see light! It would be nice to be there in some of that small cottage and enjoy that kind of magical winter evening!

Winter wilderness

2011-05-29T08:46:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas.

An idyllic winter landscape! Perhaps it is somewhere in Lapland.

Winter afternoon

2011-05-29T08:22:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas

I loved paint the winter landscapes! Here wanted to create a winter evening atmosphere in Lapland! Mysterious, endless landscape with snow! Oh and I imagining that in these cottage over there live a Santa Claus!

Frosty morning

2011-05-28T08:08:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas.

I love sometimes to imagine how life looks like a few hundred years ago, somewhere in villages! Imagine frosty winter morning, can feel all those freezing cold but it is also so peaceful everywhere! There is no rush no noise and perhaps there is coming some holidays and whole village still in deep sleep! Dreaming of better life!

Imaginative realities

2011-05-21T05:34:00.000-07:00

Mixed media on paper.

Last breath

2011-05-20T04:29:00.001-07:00

Oilpastel on paper.

Salmon on platter

2011-05-20T02:54:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas

Salmon on platter Detail

Salmon

2011-05-20T02:49:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas.

Still life with salmon.

Symphony of the past

2011-05-20T02:36:00.000-07:00

Pastel on paper.

“Symphony of colors” is my imagination music through the time in colors! Here i wanted to create the link between past and present that fly through time and connect everything! For example the ancient fort, mean security and life, home for many generations in the past. The forts were the base for cities that we know right now. They are like start points for culture life and on the other side musician instrument are from present time. They are advanced instruments that have evolved in time to these perfect beauties. Everything is connected to everything and like sound of music flies thought time and spaces. History of our life and cultures lives in joy of this beauty and colors of life!

Rose

2011-05-19T02:58:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas.

After rain

2011-05-19T02:50:00.000-07:00

Oil on carbord.

My one of the favorite moments in nature is times after rain, when feel that everything is wake up and kind of joy and refresh by rain! It so inspiring time to feel connected with Mother Nature!
Here I wanted to imagine how may look the lake at early autumn after rain! I think it may be a joyful moment to be there!

Morning magic

2011-05-14T08:21:00.000-07:00

Photomanipulation

Its early morning! Still can feel the the morning's freshness! And sun just started to plays with water droplets that are everywhere! Gentle, cool wind blow away sleepiness and bring new day full of flowers and joy! There is feels like time just stopped for a moment and was connected with the other realities!

Syringa 2

2011-05-14T08:14:00.000-07:00

Oil pastel on paper.

Still Life with Syringa. Joyful time of spring!

Spring

2011-05-14T07:49:00.000-07:00

Oil on cardboard.

What a fantastic time is springtime when everything reborn and enjoy of life! It’s a magic time and I wanted to capture here this wonderful moment of celebrating new joyful sunny day!

What a wonderful smell was standing there in that amazing place when I pained it!

Sunny morning

2011-05-14T07:41:00.000-07:00

Pastel on paper.

Syringa

2011-05-14T07:37:00.000-07:00

Oil pastel on paper.

Still Life with Syringas.

Summer lake

2011-05-14T07:17:00.000-07:00

Acrylic on paper.

Dreamy moment in Lakeland! Mostly created by memories and dreams from finish landscapes!

Sunny day

2011-04-30T06:56:00.000-07:00

Oil pastel on paper.

It was an ordinary winter morning. I had a break from study, back then I was still studying in high school. There was nothing to do so I went to the library and read some books. I was sitting near window and began to examine one thick tome. After some time I glanced out the window, there was beginning a great sunny but very cold winter morning! But I've flown at the same time attention at the bloom that stands on the windowsill! That looked as though bathed in sunlight! Somehow I immediately fell in love with the atmosphere, and I decided to draw a sketch of this flower.

Time went quickly, and eventually I got home from school day.

Picture of this morning moment in the library was revolved all the time in my mind, so I took out the paper and pastels and began to create this work. The end result is you in front of your eyes!