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Greeting Card Designs for Christmas..With Animals

11/13/2018

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Merry meet my fairy-souls! As some of you  might know I am a fan of all animals great and small and I love to paint and draw animals (which usually is easier than painting f.e people..especially babies lol!). These holiday cards and many more are available in my zazzle-store. You can get to the invidual product pages by clicking the images. 

December Kitten 

Oh Christmas and cats...don´t even get me started. Many years ago when my cat Noki boy was just a kitten he used to chase his reflections in the mirror. But unlike December kitty Noki hated going outside. 
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Birds of Winter 

You know how in every country certain animals are connected to winter time. Well in Finland little birds and especially bullfinches are connected to winter and Christmas. Back in the days people used to leave bundles of grain for them to eat. They are adorable creatures.

This is actually one of my oldest animal paintings... maybe from 2008.
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Reindeers in the Night 

More than any other of these card designs, this one was mostly inspired by fairytales. Especially Hans Christian Andersen´s Snow Queen and Sampo Lappalainen by Zachris Topelius. Both fairytales describe the northern nature with magic and beauty. 
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Field of Frost

Back to the little birds! Original was painted with acrylics and I sold it for a Finnish collector couple years ago (love when that happens). Design itself is one of the most popular ones. I tend to be often quite self-critical what it comes to my artworks but with this one I was especially pleased with the magical "misty" feeling it has. 
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That´s all for today :) For those of you in the northern hemisphere I hope you are having great time enjoying the winter nature. 
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Winter Fairy Greeting Cards

11/3/2018

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Merry meet my fairy souls! For those of you who enjoy my paintings and illustrations here are some of my winter fairy greeting card- designs. You can find these and other Christmas/Seasonal Greeting cards from my zazzle store. 

Winter Bringer - Fairy 

This was loosely inspired by the Germanic legend of Frau Holle. She was a winter goddess who was told to create snowflakes by shaking sheets/apron. I turned the idea a bit so that the winter bringer fairy would create snow by flipping her wings (you´ll get straight to the product pages by clicking the images). 
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The Ice Fairy 

Idea of the ice fairy was more straight forward. I was thinking all the colors in an icicle. How it reflects all the color spectrum. The ice fairy must have all those colours as well. 
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Aurora, Fairy of the Northern Lights 

The only acrylic painting of the bunch. Aurora is the joyous fairy of the northern lights. To me this painting reminds me of my childhood. We used to spent Christmas at my grandparents who lived in the border of Lapland and northern lights were in the night sky every night. 
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Halloween Art Slideshow Video

10/23/2018

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I made a little video of some of my favorite witching hour/Halloween/Samhain/Kekri paintings.
​Enjoy )O( 
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Spook-Ta-Cu-Lar Greeting Cards For Halloween

10/5/2018

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Merry Meet! For all the American friends of Fairychamber and anyone else who celebrates Halloween I am happy to tell you that I´ve turned bunch of my illustrations to Halloween cards. Click images to get straight into the store and to the product page. 

When Black Cats Are Seen...

It´s near Halloween!

One of my personal favorites. I had a black cat many moons ago and he was a cat with sweetest nature. I can never understand the fear for black cats. They are often more sensitive and attached to people (and other pets) than any other cats. Anyway I love witches, autumn and black cats. That is all :) 
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Keep It Freaky This Halloween 

..and every Halloween to come!
Based on my watercolor painting called "the Circus of Shadows". 
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Brandon Lee 

Are you one of those blessed people (like myself) who likes to watch the Crow every single Halloween? 
+ the lost boys, hocus pocus, the original Mummy, any movie with Sir Christopher Lee....
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Witching Hour

What is Halloween (or Easter) without witches! I would imagine that witches can fly with anything, like stars. 
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The Raven Witch Laptop Skin

9/27/2018

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I love this time of the year. The leaves, autumn colors and of course the witching hour...

Today 40% from all art prints, mugs, iphone cases, laptop skins and other me-time products in my society6 store. 
You can find my Raven Witch laptop design there as well. 
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What would Scully and Mulder do?

9/6/2018

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The question of our time!

You know how many people have their comfort tv-show that they watch again and again. It entertains, brings comfort and you laugh and cry or feel bit spooked (at least in my case). For most that is usually friends or sex and the city but for me that is The X FILES and that is the truth that is out there. 

Prints and other inter-galactic things available here. 
scully and mulder, x files, x files art, space nebula, geek stickers

Space/Nebula painted with watercolors. Text was written with masking fluid. 
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Whales, Dolphins, Leopards Oh my...

9/6/2018

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I´ve been busy updating my Zazzle-shop. I have made some special keychains from my most popular animal designs. Click any of the images to get to the store. All are based on original watercolor paintings. 
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Leggins (for art fans)

9/3/2018

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Turned some of my watercolor textures and palette knife/acrylic paintings into leggins. What is your favorite? 
I´d think I´ll go with the turquiose watercolor. Reminds me of mermaids of course. 
Click any of the images to get to the store. 
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              Marble 
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Blue Fantasy 
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Northern Lights 
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Blue Circles 
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Mermaid Tote Bags

8/24/2018

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I added some Tote bag designs to my Zazzle store and I must say I think these all-over-print bags look pretty nice. 

These ones have some of my favorite mermaid artworks. Click on the images to get to the store. 
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Illumination 
Ocean Gypsy 
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Mermaid Door 
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Mermaid Dreams 
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Postcards Of Greek Deities

8/20/2018

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I updated my zazzle shop with Greek gods and goddesses. Characters from myths and folklore are some of my favorite subjects to paint. 
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Pan is my man and Kallisto is one with the bears. I believe she was the first bear- shapesifter in Greek myths. 
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 We all know the story of Persephone. This was something different for me since I used combination of watercolors, watercolor pencils and colored pencils to finish the piece. 

I like the way she is looking into distance. Who knows what she is thinking. Was this before or after the deal made with Hades. 

You can find all my Greek mythology inspired paintings as postcards from here. 


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