Flowers

Birds

Birds

I am back to my favorite subject, birds.

Birds

Watercolor

Flowers

Flowers in our little country garden inspired this sketch. Watercolor, ink pen, oil pastel.

Almost Done

I was interested to draw aluminum box's texture and the state of almost spent package.
And I can thank "21 days of creativity" for the idea to add old newspaper as a background.

Girls, I can recommend this cream for your hands, L'Ocittane de Provence hand cream, very good list of ingredients in huge box.

Green Norway in Yellow

My latest sketch inspired by photos I made in Norway last summer.

Dacha Life

Quick sketch from my dacha life this weekend (dacha - small house in the Russian cities suburbs).

Briksdal, Norway

Another photo from my trip to Norway made this sketch happened.

21 Days of Creativity. Day 21.

21 Days of Creativity. Day 21. Last day!
Task is "Make your own book, collection of ideas". I decided to make collage of my works created during this project to keep them all together for future reference.

I liked the project because it was fun.
I liked the project, as it trained me to work daily, without excuses.
I liked it for the freedom and lack of control (no control? - very unusual for my life)).
I liked it for the courage it gave me to post any crap in my blog. To be more myself here.
I liked it for your attention and kindest comments. Thank you so much!

Sketching People.

Another report from people drawing class.

21 Days of Creativity. Days 16-20.

I decided to combine several tasks, hoping this would make my pages deeper and more interesting (to be honest, I have enough of this scrapbooking experience, and try to round it out), so:
Task 16. Use layers.
(And these are the instruction how to make typical scrapbooking page, I did them step by step to decorate my idea of "man and grapes")):
1. Ink cotton swabs and make dots.
2. Blotts from ink bottle.
3. Forget brushes and find some other painting sticks.
4. Paint the top of the page, spray with water and see how free designs form on your paper.
5. Stamps.
6. Add water to ink to reach different shades of grey.
7. Accident lines made by 3 colors.
8. Stencils.
9. Sketch something by hand.
10. Write some text with closed eyes.
11.Draw green leaves from memory.
12. Draw frame.
13. Use white markers.
14. Use black markers.

Task 17. Use stencils (see p.8)
Task 18. Use stamps (see p.5)
Task 19. Relax and enjoy the web pages about scrapbooking.
Task 20. Interpret the ideas you found during relaxing in task 19.

21 Days of Creativity. Day 15

All you need is love, love, love..
Love is all you need..
Task is: Draw what you love, draw about love, draw with love.
It seems I am getting psychedelic..

21 Days of Creativity. Day 15.

Doodling.
Looks like we move at parallel roads - the project and my realization of it.
Here I tried palette knife for the first time when painted Buddha and birds.
6 more tasks to go. Creative freedom feels so good.