Luminous fogbank sliding in from the sea, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
In the spring when the sea melts, we sometimes see very bright fog clouds.
This one rolled in very fast, stayed for a few minutes then retreated.
Seen from my office window in Espoo, looking over the bay towards Helsinki.
Leppävaara train station -20C, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
It’s been exceptionally cold here in Helsinki this winter. I drew this from the safety of a warm train.
Drawn from my office window. Downtown Helsinki can be seen in the distance, over the frozen sea.
For the next month or so, the sun manages just barely to climb over the horizon.
Alberga Manor, Espoo – the Sugar Castle, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
I often pass through the grounds of this pink manor house on my way to work. As the weather was nice I decided to draw it.
There has been a manor on this site since 1620. This latest incarnation was built in 1876. I don’t know if this neo-renaissance building bears any resemblance to the original. It’s also known as ‘Sugar Castle’ as its owner Feodor Kiseleff made his wealth trading sugar, and wood from sugar crates was used in its construction.
The first frost of the year melting into mist in the morning sun, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
The title sounds like a bad parody of a Japanese poem, but it’s simply a description of what’s happening in the picture.
A very quick watercolour of the view from my office window, done before starting work.
The clearing in the middle right is a golf course, all frosted over. In the distance you can see a heating plant chimney (it heats up a whole neighbourhood) and the main radio tower in Pasila
Autumn colours, Leppävaara, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
Another phone doodle.
I’m lucky to have these never-ending roadworks under my office window. They keep changing the signs around, and there’s always a new kind of machine working on it.
Power lines in Espoo, late summer, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
I tried to treat the tower as a part of the landscape, as I would a big tree.
A ray of sunlight during a rainstorm, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
Mixed media on paper.
There was a break in the clouds and the sun transformed the highway into a river of gold.
I spent my lunch hour trying to capture the effect.
This is a view from the city of Espoo towards Helsinki. The little peaks you can just barely make out behind the bay are in downtown Helsinki. In the summer I come to work by bicycle, on a bike path running in the woods on the right side of the highway, over a series of little islands.
I have many long phone conferences, so I doodle. Normally I sketch what I see from my office window.
Roadworks under my office window in Espoo, Finland.
There are benefits to really long and pointless teleconferences.
Mille Croquis 