You might feel shivers when hearing your favourite music piece, tingling feeling inside your head during haircut, relaxation and pleasure when someone is giving you head massage with this long legged spider looking device. Many get these sensations also when hearing people speaking or whispering, when they are watching some one working or when they get attention from a stranger. Most commonly this sensation is called to Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. Cause of these symptoms is not fully known, but it is thought to come from sudden release of hormones and other chemicals in brain.
Very visual persons like me, can have this kind of sensations when they see art. My strongest sensations include shivers and vibrations starting from head, euphoric feeling, tingling feeling in head, I have red face and my eyes water from joy and happiness. These feelings disappear in few minutes. Spaces and art has the strongest effect on me. Larger items and spaces affects more than small things. Usually I have seen these things earlier in pictures but sometimes new items surprise me. Photographs from same places or items don’t have any effect. I have to see them live.
I asked in Bird Forum if other artists had similar physical sensations and there were plenty of others who knew what I was talking about. They got similar sensations when they saw art or things that mend something for them. Items varied from Archaeopteryx- fossil to Ennion watercolour painting.
Here are some examples of art pieces, architectural spaces and situations that I remember having affecting to me.
Tuthankhamun mask in Cairo Egyptian museum when I saw it first time.
Echo statue by Ville Valgren in Ateneum
Vase crafted by Itaya Hazan
Arhip Kuindzhin painting from Crimea
Hall of British museum
Huge “miniature” of Hogwarts
Dream Theater playing Octavarium in Helsinki.
Lots of experiences of this in comments of this article.
During last year I have constantly worked with painting or planning information boards to Ähtäri Zoo. My goal has been to make a bit different information boards that make watchers surprised.
Here are samples of these new information boards. Layout is done by Tommi Tenhunen. This is our fifth project together!
Boards have species in interaction with their surrounding habitat and species. In this Arctic Fox board the main image is Lapland bunting collecting hair. They use animal hair for insulation in their nest cups.
Finnish Owls board is for identification purposes. Near Owl cages there are also other boards like this Owl sense of hearing board.
Luna Clay artificial clay that main ingredient is specific paper pulp. It is air-drying clay so no firing is needed. In dry weather drying takes only ten minutes. Luna Clay takes colour of oil paints very well and could be pressed into very thin layers. When dry it is still soft and flexible. You can paint details easily to make plants more realistic. After it’s shaped and dried, it’s still soft and flexible and could be painted additional colours to make the flowers look realistic.
Other new product I will test is Sukerukun clay. It is air-drying, transparent resin clay that dries also without heating. Package colour is white, but this clay comes transparent during drying. Drying time is1-3 days. This clay stays flexible when it dries. This clay can be dyed easily with acrylics or oil paints.
My plan is to make realistic clay plants. It will be interesting to see results!
Climate chance shows well here in Finland and especially it is clear when you look at distributions of butterflies. During last decade we have got lots of new butterfly species. I used to collect butterflies when I was child and from that time there have been big chances. Many of the species that used to be extremely rare are now common and there is also new species that we would not have even dreamed to see during 1990.
In this painting there is collection of butterfly species that are new for Siikalahti Bird lake. Species are Purple Emperor, Lesser Purple Emperor, Map Butterfly, Scarce Tortoiseshell, Large Copper and Short-tailed Blue.
When ready, this painting will be framed inside a “butterfly box”.
Here are step by step images of the painting proces. Last image is almost finished painting.
I was not happy with Large Copper so I erased it away and repainted it completely.
I will paint a mural where I need glow in the dark paints. I ordered these Glow nation pains for testing. Paints were on light for half an hour and then I took them inside windowless dark room. Each picture was taken after half an hour from last one. Orange and white had clearly shortest glow time and green and aqua had longest. Last picture was taken 2 hours after the first picture.
I needed lots of red glow in the dark paint. I ordered these powders from Kosmic kreations. It would be non sense to send acrylic medium and water in mail, when I can easily mix these powders to acrylic medium I already have. Reds have pale red color in daylight and orange is slightly yellow. Other powders are almost colorless.
Producer warned that Zink red has bad odor. I was surprised when I realized that it smells the same as hair dye. Not as bad as I thought.
Here the same paint powder bags are under uv-light (black light). Orange and super red shows their color nicely, but as you see zink red does not react same way.
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