Dalat is a mountain town in Central Vietnam (or one could say even “city” – it’s rather big). It’s quite a touristic place, in its central part, but quiet and homely in the outskirts. Once you get there (and you will need some locals’ help if you don’t speak a good command of Vietnamese!), you are surrounded by bursting green, countryside-looking homes, Read more…
– First part of the story is here… – In many of my more recent works I used a “combined” approach: I started painting from life a thing that grabbed my attention, created a general and quick outline of the composition and colors, and then completed the details by memory (or by intuition..) later at home. Like these paintings – Read more…
Here I want to introduce for you one of my watercolors from this last summer (June 2019). This is a tree – and yes, it really exists! It grows in a park in city of Lviv or Leopoli in the west of Ukraine. And yes, it is really high! This is an old park in a very central and “business” Read more…
As I’ve discovered and keep discovering all the time, every artist is likely to have her or his own, individual way and process of creating their art works. And it looks incredibly interesting. So, I decided to share my own process with you here and hope some of you will follow along and do the same! Of course, life is Read more…
As I am adding gradually my new works to my online gallery, let me present to you one of them. Arno river has always been one of my favorite “models” (“always” here means “since I know it” 🙂 ). It crosses the city of Florence (Italy) from East to West, goes down all the way to Pisa and flows into Read more…
I am back to my beautiful and beloved Florence (Firenze in Italian), at least, for some time. And I want to celebrate this by sharing with you some of my paintings and sketches that I made here during the last two years. So, let’s get right into it! Let’s start with some sketches. View of the river Arno from the Read more…
This my painting, quite unexpectedly, has acquired some philosophical and social meaning. I mean, I didn’t plan it. It started just as an exercise to capture colors of whatever I saw around me. Later I decided to complete it, took it off and proceeded to paint thoughtfully but calmly and somewhat detached, thinking of this and that in the meanwhile… Read more…
I created this piece sitting in a street cafe – like a small park for locals and a playground combined with a cafe, as it happens often in Turkish small towns – and it happened mostly randomly. I’d say, it created itself, taking advantage of my relaxed mood when I was just sketching stuff around without any particular purpose, with Read more…
Azdavay (Turkey, Black sea region) is one stop before the last on the road (if we count only towns). I’ve never been there in winter – some locals said it becomes pretty deserted this time and many cafes and small restaurants in the town center close. But in summer it has everything that you may need if you want both Read more…
In this post I introduce some of my works made in Kyiv or nearby in recent years. Kyiv is quite a big city – it has ~3 million population according to Wikipedia. And it feels like a big city: big buildings, roads with traffic, several large districts with distinct character, many diverse smaller neighborhoods inside these big areas… But once Read more…
