Musta tuli - Black Fire (my 300th drawing)

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Vääristynyt - Distorted

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Sitaatti - Quotation

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Piikkisydän - Thorn Heart

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Ranka - Spine

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Avaruuden värinen - The Colour of Space

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Mannekiini - Mannequin

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Jalkoja - Feet

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

When things stop feeling special

Endless homogenous playlists humming in the background,

mindless reproductions of images that lose their power,

superficial reactions,

doing things in order to fit in,

lowering the bar again and again......

Everything becomes wallpaper.

Wake up. Where is your voice? Where are your genes? It's not enough that something looks good or sounds good. Don't let that fool you. That's not what love is.

This epidemic of mediocrity makes me want to vomit my brains out. It makes me want to give up. It's tedious and depressing.

When things stop feeling special, you are completely screwed.

Huimaus - Vertigo

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Kello - Clock

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Mahdoton - Impossible

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Kelvoton - Useless

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Aukko - Hole

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

2 new tracks from Muses with Tin Tongues

Our Word and Master
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ8R7BtOW7E

Visceralia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_4hDzkA4xg

From the album "Muses with Tin Tongues" - Out: January 1, 2020.

Avantgarde Black Metal / Classical with orchestral percussion.

Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.
Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, October 2019.

https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/releases

Muses with Tin Tongues is the third album in the Vengeful Semblance trilogy.

2 new tracks from Instruments of Unveiling

The Smell of Virginal Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqDKCtBUx3s

Spiraling Vigilance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2OCNAVmwRw

From the album "Instruments of Unveiling" - Out: January 1, 2020.

Avantgarde Black Metal / Classical with orchestral percussion.

https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/releases

Instruments of Unveiling is the second album in the Vengeful Semblance trilogy. Part 3 will also be released in 2020.

Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.
Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, August 2019.

Risti - Cross

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Art questions December 2019

Q: Have you done collaborations?

A: No, I've done everything completely by myself.

Most of the faces in my drawings are mine. I don't do self portraits but I use my own face and body for different ideas. As an expressionist who also loves comedy, I wish I had a rubber face. I've still tried to do everything I can with this face.

Q: Are you going to make another film?

A: I've started working on a short wax drawing animation. I'm interested in all elements of filmmaking.

When I was growing up in the 1990s, I was fascinated by movie posters and soundtracks. Most of them were from the 1970s and 80s. They used to be more creative and important. Reading about movies I hadn't seen was also fascinating. I couldn't do the same things now. I couldn't do that with the same kind of intensity.

Q: Are you going to write more music in 2020?

A: There's one jazzy classical piece for my 10th album. The 8th and 9th will be out on January 1, 2020. The music on those is more extreme.

I thought I would be making less music but you never know when the ideas take over.

Keisari - Emperor

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Korppi - Raven

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Ovi - Door

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Mythical Labourers

Little Green Miners

The Grim Duster

Loch Ness Mowing Boat Man

The Hydraulic Excavator Operator of the Baskervilles

Count Jackula

Sewage Sludge Phoenix

Pluto the Plumber

The Scrubbing Banshee

Recyclops

The Chimney Sphinx

Sotureita - Warriors

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Vapautettu - Emancipated

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Our creative subconscious doesn't register wallpaper

Where are the strong images and do they feel interesting?

These are the principal questions I ask myself when I'm experiencing and exploring visual works of art. These are also the principal things we remember from a dream.

The more we see one-dimensional and typical works the hungrier we are for something deeper.

Great artists know how to use simplicity. All my favourite artists from Edvard Munch to Hieronymus Bosch knew how to draw you in.
I can't remember where I first saw Munch's Scream but I remember the feeling.

Puzzled David Hemmings returns to the scene of a murder in Dario Argento's Deep Red (Profondo rosso, 1975).

Vengeful Semblance: Muses with Tin Tongues

Out January 1, 2020.

Muses with Tin Tongues is the 3rd Vengeful Semblance album
and the 9th album by Finnish classical composer Rinta-Perälä.

Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.
Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, October 2019.

1. Our Word and Master
2. Demachination
3. Inquisiterra
4. The Remains Also Gaze
5. Hermetic Armour
6. The Seed Dust Delivered Moral Evil
7. Visceralia
8. Those Who Breathe Into This Night

Avantgarde Black Metal / Classical

Vengeful Semblance: Vengeful Semblance
Released July 1, 2019.
https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/releases

Vengeful Semblance: Instruments of Unveiling
Out January 1, 2020.

Päätön - Headless

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Art questions November 2019 - Stupid Questions Special

Q: What is your biggest inspiration?

A: Clouds. Clouds and masturbation.

Q: Out of all the drawings you've made, which is your favourite?

A: Swastika on my forehead before a job interview.

Q: What is your favourite colour?

A: Vomit.

Q: Who is your favourite pop artist?

A: Kanye Warhol.

Q: Can art be useful?

A: Ask Vladimir Putin.

Q: If you could be any other artist, who would you be?

A: Oh, it's one of those Young British Artists. Danny Dye... uh, I mean Damien Hirst.

"Black Classical" Trilogy

Muses with Tin Tongues is the third album in my Avantgarde Black Metal / Black Classical trilogy.

Right now I've got all the guitar tracks and I'm doing the orchestral percussion.

I'm thrilled to say the least. I never thought I would create 3 albums in 6 months by myself. I've been working like a lunatic this year (I'm also studying 5 days a week).

 I
Vengeful Semblance
Released July 1, 2019.
https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/releases

II
Instruments of Unveiling
Out January 1, 2020.

III
Muses with Tin Tongues
Out January 1, 2020.

Muotokuva - Portrait

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Tavoittelu - Pursuit

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Älä piirrä minua - Don't Draw Me

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Going to wolf down my tasty Scandinavian burger

Harhaileva huomio - Wandering Attention

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Vengeful Semblance Trilogy

The Avantgarde Black Metal trilogy will be finished this year. The third album needs 4 more songs.

I've been possessed by this surprisingly potent project. I wasn't even going to make the first album but these songs wanted to come out.

PART 1
Vengeful Semblance
Released July 1, 2019.
https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/releases

PART 2
Instruments of Unveiling
Out January 1, 2020.

PART 3
Also out in 2020.

Queasy Poets Society

Dawn of the Queasy

Queasy Poets Society

The Walking Queasy

The Quick and the Queasy

The Evil Queasy

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Queasy

Queasy Presidents

Evil Queasy 2: Queasy by Dawn

Queasy Man Walking

Queasy Sexy

Bringing Out the Queasy

Freddy's Queasy: The Final Nightmare

Queasy and Buried

Queasy Man's Shoes

Wanted: Queasy or Alive

Queasy in a Week Or Your Money Back

Orgy of the Queasy

A conversation with my Swedish neighbour, Bengt

BENGT: Hey, havve youu evver heardd thatt soong, Midnight Train to... Yyooorrya?

ME: Say that again.

BENGT: Midnight Train to... Yyoooooorrrrya.

ME: You mean Midnight Train to Georgia?

BENGT: NO!!!!!!

Rumpu - Drum

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Art questions October 2019

Q: Why do YOU want to be a visual artist?

A: I've been looking for strong images my whole life. I've developed relationships with them and that is the real power.

There are millions of images everywhere. You have to create something that stands out. No one is going to care about your works if the visual impact is nonexistent.

Q: Are you doing any kind of research?

A: Similarly to a lot of the things I do, my research is based on curiosity. Most of the time I'm all over the place and that's what I prefer. I don't want to be an expert.

If you do research based on curiosity, people will make fun of you. They always ask why. Why are you looking up this thing? Why are you reading this book? I don't know. I don't know the outcome.

Ask yourself: am I being joyful?

Q: Do you ever feel like you're running out of ideas?

A: No. There is no ultimate idea, no ultimate sigh of relief or satisfaction.

Q: What museums would you recommend?

A: Ateneum art museum in Helsinki. Ainola, home of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957).

Korva - Ear

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Verijuuri - Blood Root

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Aave - Spectre

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Kriittinen - Critical

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Silmäteriä - Pupils

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Favourite writers and short stories

This is one of the best things I've ever done. Classic short stories are among the works I admire the most. It's amazing what these writers are able to do in the density of just a few pages. I'm usually impressed by everything surrounding the plot and I only know the title before I start reading.

E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822)
The Sandman

Honore de Balzac (1799–1850)
The Curé of Azay-le-Rideau
The Virgin of Thilhouse

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
The Cask of Amontillado
The Imp of the Perverse
The Masque of the Red Death
The Oval Portrait
The Pit and the Pendulum
Silence
The Tell-Tale Heart
William Wilson

Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893)
Fear
Lasting Love
Minuet
The Wolf

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)
A Joke
A Mystery
Sleepy
A Work of Art

Franz Kafka (1883–1924)
A Country Doctor
The Hunter Gracchus

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012)
The Burning Man
Fever Dream
The Golden Apples of the Sun

Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
At Daybreak
The Call of the Water
Conscience

Richard Matheson (1926–2013)
Crickets
The Holiday Man

Clive Barker (1952)
The Life of Death
The Yattering and Jack

Kristallipallo - Crystal Ball

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Art questions September 2019

Q: Why did you choose black and white?

A: This wax drawing technique I developed is a monochrome technique. Black and white is not a strange choice in the world of drawing, but you have to understand it. To me it is mainly about shapes. Bringing out the strength and the energy is crucial. I have never had a list of black and white techniques and I never will. I simply believe in its possibilities.

When I was a teenager I discovered the black-and-white photography of Matti A. Pitkänen and the illustrations of Gustave Dore. Films like Eraserhead, Repulsion and Tetsuo furthered my interest in this visual approach. German expressionism finally urged me to start drawing.

Q: What would you do if you couldn't make music or drawings?

A: I've started writing short stories this year. There's lots of ideas and I'm trying to finish one of these stories.

I would also like to be a comedian who writes books, but that's never going to happen. It's a fantasy. I love language, older stand-up, Spike Milligan, Lord Buckley and Groucho Marx.

Orjantappurakruunu - Crown of Thorns

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Quote of the century

My main operating principle: Don't take any shit from the zeitgeist.
George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

My 8th album is in the mixing process

Avantgarde black metal with orchestral percussion.

Part 3 in the Vengeful Semblance trilogy will also be out in 2020.

Recording the 2nd Vengeful Semblance album

I am currently recording this Avantgarde Black Metal opus. Part 2 in the Vengeful Semblance trilogy.

Instruments of Unveiling
Out: January 1, 2020.

Free digital copy of Vengeful Semblance: Vengeful Semblance (2019)
https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/releases

Paavi - Pope

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.