Announcement

Hi guys. I hope so much you are very well out there.
I have decided to limit my internet activity to one platform.
At a moment it is Instagram. See you there!
https://www.instagram.com/irinapaints

Girls

After a long break I am back with these tempera girls to wish you happy holidays and all the best ahead.

Copying Masters: Sargent

370x480mm, Tempera on wallpaper

Very interesting and educative experience, this copy of John Singer Sargent's masterpiece.

Dacha Life

20x25cm Neocolor sticks; 30x40cm Oil pastel on tempera background

Sketchbook pages.

Buddies

Tempera,20 x 25cm

Shoes as an endless source of inspiration.

Advice: Manolo Blahniks's Instagram (here) helps to lock our crazy world away for a while.

Sketchbook Pages

Outdoor drawing sessions in my sketchbook.

Definition of Freedom

50x70cm, Tempera on wallpaper

This one started with the study of limited palette of white/black/y.ochre/cad.red and the idea to draw something based on folklore.
At the end the painting turned into a symbolic definition of freedom: dignity, wisdom, strength and free will.

Side Light

Shallow Water

50 x 70cm, Tempera on wallpaper

Clown, 8 Years Older

The old clown is laughing and still making jokes on the shelf. I already tried to draw him in the beginning of my art story, in faraway 2009. Here he is, and I love them both.