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When the lights come on. Etudes for a state of 7 minutes.
Extremely fast etudes are obtained when twilight falls and lights are lit. Twilight is just falling and not coming. The orange light from the lanterns adds extremeness, so you have to work blindly, just knowing where which paint is on the palette. Well, it's already cold at the end of October, even for two blitz sketches of 7 minutes. )
29.10.2018
My favorite autumn. Plein airs 2018.
My favorite weather. I love the autumn ringing silence, rustling leaves and drizzle. The main thing is to dress well in the open air. And this is my first autumn plein airs in the first plein air year in my life. ) October 17 (S.T. Aksakov to A.N. Maykov) "More rain, more fog, And leaf fall, and bare forest, And darkened glades, And low and gray...
17.10.2018
Plein air on the Protection of the Holy Virgin
Instead snow on the Protection of the Holy Virgin it was the sunny day. I was able to write the grotto of count Orlov in Neskuchny garden and not to freeze. The grotto of boulders remained next to the Bath house, the bathing place of Catherine the Great, located above the key and an artificial pond. What a joy to write a sketch in such a place.
14.10.2018
Pencil portraits for several sessions
Pencil portraits for multiple sessions are a meditative and useful activity, as useful as quick one-line sketches. Portrait of Catherine.
10.10.2018
Autumn plein airs 2018
My favorite time. But to capture this beauty, you need to dress to plein air, as in winter. For a couple of hours of sitting, you get very cold. "...I love the lush nature of withering, In crimson and gold clad forests, In their seni wind noise and fresh breath, And sky is covered with undulating mist..."
05.10.2018
A series of Pyatigorsk sketches, 2018.
A series of Pyatigorsk sketches, created in September 2018, includes mountain views associated with the mountains Mashuk and Beshtau. And it is no coincidence, because Pyatigorsk was named in 1830 by the name of mountain Beshtau (it means "Five mountains" or "Five peaks"). Mountain Mashuk owes its name to a mountain legend about a beautiful girl Mashuko, signifying in...
30.09.2018
In studio.
I write a portrait of Yegorych in the studio. Highly intelligent grandfather, now an artists’s model, and once worked as a producer at the Odessa film studio. God works in mysterious ways.
31.08.2018
Portrait of my great-great-great-grandfather Ivan Lukich Shomovsky
I opened the grisaille of the portrait of my great-great-great-grandfather Ivan Lukich Shomovsky. Now he's looking at me from the wall. Old photos and letters are treasures of the past and a base for our future.
29.05.2018