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International Women’s Day

Women day illustration by Elli Maanpää 2015

Tänään vietetään Kansainvälistä Naistenpäivää. Vaikka näin länsimaisena naisena tunnen tilanteeni olevan erittäin onnekas ja arvokas omana itsenäni naisena tässä yhteiskunnassa, on edelleen kansainvälisesti naisten oikeuksien puolesta taisteltava. Kuten Unicefin facebook viestissä lukee “Tytöt, jotka käyvät koulua yli 7 vuotta menevät myöhemmin naimisiin, saavat vähemmän lapsia, eivät todennäköisesti menehdy synnytykseen, kasvattavat terveempiä lapsia ja heidän lapsensa käyvät koulua. Kuka voittaa? Kaikki.” Olkaamme tyttöjen ja

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Posted: March 8, 2015 by Elli Maanpää

Magic Is Something You Make

Taianomaista viikonloppua! Luotetaan siihen, ettemme voi vielä edes kuvitella kuinka mahtava se voi olla. Kuvituksena piirustuksia päivieni varrelta: Geisha, Venus ja Hipsterinörtti. Magical weekend! Let’s just trust that we cannot even image how beautiful it can be. Illustrations are sketches from past days: Geisha, Venus and Hipster Nerd.

Posted: February 20, 2015 by Elli Maanpää

Blueness

Tämä sinisten pilvien keskellä oleva Mona Lisa on Essi, poikaystäväni toinen sisko. Toisen siskon muotokuvan näitte edellisessä postauksessa. This Mona Lisa surrounded by blue clouds is Essi, my hubby’s another sister. The other sister you met in the previous post. Tämä muotokuva oli astetta haastavampi, sillä valokuva jota käytin referenssinä oli todella tummasävyinen ja kuvanlaadultaan

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Posted: January 19, 2015 by Elli Maanpää

Pink

Tämä Pink ei ole se laulaja-Pink vaan avomieheni pinkkihiuksinen sisko Anni. Annoin hänelle joululahjaksi pinkin muotokuvan. Alla on prosessivalokuvia maalauksen teosta. This Pink is not the singer Pink but my boyfriend’s pink haired sister Anni. I gave her pink portrait for Christmas present. Below are making of -photographs of the painting.Kun teen muotokuvaa – jossa näköisyys

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Posted: January 15, 2015 by Elli Maanpää

Third Week Of Postcard Art

The past week I’ve been on a road again. But that has not affected to the amount of days and postcard artworks done this week. 7 days 7 new postcards. If you have no idea what I’m talking about here is the Postcard Project in a nutshell: For every day in October 2014 I draw a

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Posted: October 23, 2014 by Elli Maanpää

Hipster

I’ve decided to aim to do two blog posts a week. The first one in Monday – cause Monday is always the beginning of a whole new week – and the second one on Thursday – because in Finland we have a saying “Torstai on toivoa täynnä” which means “Thursday is full of hope“. So

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Posted: October 2, 2014 by Elli Maanpää

Want a Postcard?

Would you like to receive a self-made… …postcard… …from me? Yesterday I got an lovely idea thanks to my mom who asked me to draw a “Thank you” -card for our relatives. There is still couple of months left of my sketch-a-day challenge. For the whole year I’ve been sketching daily – sometimes big and bold paintings

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Posted: September 29, 2014 by Elli Maanpää

I Will Make It Happen

Today started with mixed feelings since I had to make some hard choices. Nothing too dramatic but choices of how I want’t to use my time this Autumn. Do I want to take singing lessons (yes) or take part in a improvisation course (I’d love to but couldn’t register on time). In the end of

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Posted: September 10, 2014 by Elli Maanpää

Pastel Story

This is a story about big package of oil pastels. And about the fact I love receiving new free art tools. These pastels belonged to my boyfriend who was cleaning the house and thinking about getting rid of them. He said: “I haven’t use them in 10 years so I’m probably not gonna use them

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Posted: September 3, 2014 by Elli Maanpää

Delirious

Can you believe it’s already 1st of September? It’s sad to say good bye to Summer but it’s nice to welcome Autumn after long warm Summer. Delirious is a sketch-a-day painting I did already in July. But since I did it while visiting Turku and left the piece there I only now had a chance

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