Hi everyone!
Today I'm unofficially taking part in the YouTube Artists Collective theme Urban Legends
from the artist's home country.
And just a warning, before we get into the video: this will be darker than my usual videos,
so if you don't want to hear the ghost stories, I'll put a timestamp below so you can skip
to the part where I talk about the painting process and the supplies I used.
I started by reserving a bunch of books about Finnish urban legends, folk tales and ghost
stories.
Urban legend by definition is modern folklore so I ruled out the older folk tales, although
I think I might use some of those for future illustrations, because I find the stories
with witches and animals quite inspiring.
I think this theme is kind of funny in a way, because although the urban legends you hear
can be set in a certain city, many of them are just recycled from other countries and
the city and related buildings etc. have been changed to be specific to your country.
Nevertheless, I'll tell you a few urban legends from Finland, which relate to certain mansions
in Tampere and Turku, including the one that inspired this painting.
Our first urban legend is about the Brinkhall mansion in Turku that was built in the 16th
century.
There are multiple ghost stories about this one mansion and I found them in a book about
haunted houses and human fates.
There's a haunted nursery, where a ghost has been seen outside the window and later a skeleton
of a child, a little girl, was found in front of the same window.
There's also a blonde woman seen walking or floating around the park by the apple trees.
There's a gardener's house in the courtyard, where one of the past gardeners has ended
his life in the attic of the house.
They refused to bury the body in the sacred land, which made the ghost of the gardener
haunt the house and especially the attic, which has an oppressive atmosphere according
to people who have visited the house.
Moving on to the urban legend related to this painting.
I was reading through a book about Finnish ghost stories and this story stuck out to
me, because I could immediately see the painting I'd make in my head.
There may have been other interesting stories, but they didn't spark an idea for a painting.
So, there's a mansion in Haihara, in the city of Tampere in Finland and it was built in
the 1870s so almost 150 years ago.
There was a maid working in the mansion and she fell in love with one of the guests in
the mansion.
Eventually she was expecting a child, but the man didn't want to marry her.
And at that point in time being a single mother was considered shameful and she was desperate
and saw no way out, but to run to the lake near the mansion and drown herself.
Her ghost is called the blue maiden and to this day the ghost can be seen and heard moving
in the park of the mansion.
Some versions of the legend even say that as she was running to the lake, she tripped
and broke her legs and so her ghost floating in the park is also legless.
If you're a Finnish speaker and want to research this ghost, she's called Sininen neito.
I haven't been to either of these mansions I was talking about, but I have been at the
Turku castle, which is another haunted place.
It's an old prison with a violent history.
However, at the time I didn't know about the ghost stories surrounding it and the only
thing I found spooky was they way the guides of the museum were dressed in an old-fashioned
way and standing or sitting in the halls so quietly that you were startled when you realized
that's a real person.
I do have one strange experience that happened a while ago that I can't explain logically,
but I'll save that for another video, because it might take a while to explain.
Finally let's talk about the painting process a bit.
So, I started by drawing small, rough sketches and when I knew somewhat what I wanted the
composition to look like, I combined 3 photos into a reference picture and used the grid
method to sketch it in real size.
I used different photos for the building, the position of the girl and her face and
I also looked up references for the trees, the color of the sky and dresses that maids
would wear in the 19th century.
My laptop was still being repaired while I made this painting and I needed to use online
software to do the photo editing.
So, I combined the photos with fotor.com and I added the grid on the photo using http://www.griddrawingtool.com/,
which was very simple to use.
So, this is a tip for if you're using a university or work or a public computer, where you're
not allowed to install any programs, you can use browser based software instead.
I'll list the programs I used below.
I painted this on an A3 size canvas board and I taped two A4 papers together for the
sketch, which I then transferred onto the canvas board with graphite transfer paper.
I was worried about the graphite sketch smudging the acrylic paints so I sealed the sketch
using matte medium before starting the actual painting.
I'll list all the supplies I used below.
Matte medium is basically acrylic paint without any pigment so it creates a clear coat on
top of the sketch.
But on the other hand, you won't be able to erase the sketch afterwards so make sure you're
happy with it before sealing it with matte medium.
I had a bit of a problem with this, because I sketched the tears on the outer corners
of the eye, and then it was pointed out to me that they probably shouldn't be there.
But I couldn't erase the sketch anymore so I had to layer acrylic paint on the tears
to cover the sketch and paint the tears in the inner corners of the eyes and down the
middle.
I started by painting the easiest parts, which were the sky, the mansion and the hill and
the spruce trees in the background and then moved on to the girl and the water.
I'm pretty happy with how to dress and the reflections in the water turned out, but I
was kind of struggling with the hair, I didn't even film much of it.
I also had to look up references on how to paint tears at the end, but I ended up just
painting them with watery acrylic dripping down and adding a few dots of white for highlights
once they were dry.
I used a limited color scheme of blues and light yellow and I shaded the girl with blue
to tie her to the background and also make her skin look pale like a ghost.
Although, technically I don't think she's a ghost at this point.
This is her while she's still alive.
As I mentioned in the beginning, this was my unofficial painting for YTAC and if you
want to know more about YTAC and how to take part in the current or upcoming themes or
see the previous themes all listed and maybe use them as ideas for your own art, I'll link
to a blog post I wrote, where you can find all of that information.
I'm also making a playlist of all the videos for this urban legend theme so you can easily
find all of them in the same place, both the official members' videos as well as the unofficial
ones.
If you're new to my channel, I post a new video every week, sometimes twice a week.
My videos include tips and tutorials for artists as well as relaxing real time ASMR art videos.
And prints and stickers and other merch of this painting and my other artworks are available
in my Redbubble shop.
Thank you so much for watching and see you next week!
Bye!
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