. . Hanna Aalto . .

This new Eurasian Lynx painting has female lynx walking down hill slope. Beautiful Common Hepatica grows often in this kind of places. The cat is nearly finished, but there is still some work left in foreground.

Painting is 10″ x 20″.

Work in progress images:

This A4 size Snow leopard painting has been made for Ähtäri Zoo. In real life painting has more different hues, but camera does not get them. Especially light blues are difficould for digital cameras.

Slavonian Grebe with young

In this painting female Slavonian Grebe offers a feather to its young. Slavonian Grebe chicks eat small fish and spiny water insects that could block their stomach. Eaten feathers will help bringing these undigested things out safely.

This painting is painted on 20×20cm Ampersand clayboard. During the painting work I realized that I should have done this in bigger size. Now birds are only 12cm long and many details are tiny and that’s why difficult to paint. Now I will put this painting away for at least a week. Then I will see what mistakes are left and I can fix them.

Cameras struggle always with faint blue hues. I got best result when I photographed this painting out side and in shadow.