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Iina Koppinen: The time of the fall – and how I value my art work
OHMYGOSSIP – Here I am – sitting in my cozy bed, toes under the nap blanket. Cinnamon candles burning, bringing warm and gloomy atmosphere inside the house when it’s getting dark outside, and the breath of the autumnal wind is
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Iina Koppinen: How to get motivation back?
OHMYGOSSIP – Stress in my mind is not creative. To overcome it in all circumstances is to start doing my work anyway, because just postponing everything.. (like I did these past two weeks), the result was the stress just got
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Iina Koppinen: Writing and speaking – and thoughts about these
OHMYGOSSIP – I’ve been sick, the flu for the whole week now! The stubborn one! When I was getting better – then I had to do some stressful things.. and I was sick again. And I’ve felt that I’am doing
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Iina Koppinen: The impact of blogging and photographing
OHMYGOSSIP – Today I was thinking, do I have enough courage to follow the paths, or not so recommended on photographing styles in modern blogging. Visual art arise from creativity, but it is not synonym for it, you know. The
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Iina Koppinen: Blog’n’roll – decorating and hanging artwork
OHMYGOSSIP – Early in the morning cold wind reminded me of upcoming fall – though sun tried to shine on me while I took a short walk to near forest. While walking I was thinking about wallpapers and figures, because
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Iina Koppinen: Working and vacation in Italy – medieval castle Izzalini
OHMYGOSSIP – The best thing in Italian culture and lifestyle is they know how to have fun and enjoy every moment of life – they call it la dolce vita. It is so remarkable difference to my domestic culture in
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Iina Koppinen: Italy, Umbria – with photos and words
OHMYGOSSIP – Italy, the region of Umbria – when travelling here, it’s worth keeping in mind that easy and slow life are rhythtmic characteristics of this area. Italy is pleasant country in the way, suddenly here comes in my mind,
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Iina Koppinen: Answering a question about my studio habits – and great weekend at the cabin
OHMYGOSSIP – I had a great weekend at the cabin! It’s the silence which makes me relax and listen the sound of the burning woods at the fireplace. Looking out from window to the lake, and sitting at cozy couch..
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Iina Koppinen: Exhibition at Galleria Patina – placement of artworks and making friends with other visual artists
OHMYGOSSIP – On friday afternoon we had the opening parties of exhibition at Galleria Patina in Jyväskylä, Finland. I’am invited visual artist and one of nine artists in July exhibition. I was pleased to meet artists never seen before, I
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Iina Koppinen: Why visual artists should have a blog, success – and one epic failure
OHMYGOSSIP – Here I’ am – sitting and staring at a blank laptop screen. Sometimes it just happens.. if I’am tired, I lose all my good ideas what I was thinking to write about! And that is frustrating. I don’t
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Iina Koppinen: Opinions about critic and art – and drawing with the left hand
OHMYGOSSIP – I can’t stop to admire how beautifully some people can combine their words and their pictures! They can have a such poetic way.. melancholy looks to distance, in the words and in the images. They give this additional
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Iina Koppinen: Visual artist writing a blog
OHMYGOSSIP – Visual artist writing a blog. Visual art tells its own story and the readers are also the creators of the story, because every picture makes its own thought and vision, also to you – if you watch it
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