– 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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, Read more…
Sometimes putting things on paper is not easy 🙂 You have to try again and again and wonder why things that seem so clear when you look at them just don’t get right… I’ve been always enchanted by water – especially moving water with all it’s waves, and whirls, and Read more…
I wanted to make this post about public squares in different places of the world. Which seems a nice idea to me. But important events are on the way in one of my home countries, Ukraine, so I devote this post to Ukraine and Kyiv, with sincere wish of success. Read more…
Not all that I’ve painted, sketched, and drawn there I have in photos with me now. But there are some – let’s take it from here. We first met in late December 2016 but I didn’t make much art then. It was chilly, grayish, raining all the time, from light Read more…