Dacha Life

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

Sketchbook pages.

Sketchbook Pages

Outdoor drawing sessions in my sketchbook.

Three Images

Pizza in that restaurant was not a success, but the view has beaten it easily up.
Interesting, that each window section of these three can make a separate finished painting

Out the Window 17. No Funny Sky

Do not beat me for the same picture again and again. I can not stop to record the state of nature outside my window. Sky is the amazing master of magic.

Summertime

Happiness of summertime. Long days, warm nights, bright colors.

Roses at Dacha Castle

Roses are my mother's pride and joy, together with her "dacha" castle.

The Man in the Glasses

The unbeatable color harmony - burnt sienna and cobalt blue.

Flowers Bouquet

40x60cm, Watercolor and Pastel

Drawing is the sort of magic. Drawing flowers  is the magic doubled.

Black Background

This collage is inspired by the photo. I used a lot of materials here: collage, watercolor, black ink for the background, Neocolor sticks for the details.

Boots

Old boots' portraits always are like portraits of there owners to me. Boots show character, power, and story of the person they walk the life with together.  

Lavatera

26cm x 23 cm, Mixed media

Lavatera flower in mother's garden. So simple and so beautiful in its simplicity.

In the Garden.

The corner in the garden, guarded and cared by my mother.

Dacha Is calling

13cm x 23cm, Mixed Media

The apples crop is huge this season and the nature still shows a lot of green color.

13cm x 23cm, Mixed Media

Lilac

Lilac in the garden. How to express the sweet scent?

Sewing Machine

The variety of colors and textures made the photo of sewing machine so very interesting to me. So I tried to catch this variety with watercolors and pencils.

We are in the beginning of the spring now. This time of year makes me happy and presents amazing colors and feelings. I made this photo yesterday, in the moment between the sun and the rain.

Green Norway in Yellow

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

Into the Green

My 21 days of creativity were interrupted by trip to the country, where I did some sketches of green world around and some copies of Victorian ornaments (this activity, I like it, shuts my mind and makes steady my hand).

Pears

Sea

How to paint power and energy of the sea, hidden behind calming monotony? I do not know.

Another Sketchbook is Almost Done

Almost last pages in my sketchbook and last photos from 2010 saved to my "art" folder to admire and to copy-paint.

I am sorry I do not remember the sources, and google image search does not help(.