Night in the desert

Bedouins on my mind

When I hear a word "passion", I see eastern men. To me, there`s nothing more passionate, than a black-bearded man from the desert, all covered in raw natural cloth.

A move

We`re moving to a new apartment. Big, light and empty.
For the first time in my life I will have a possibility to make a space for myself, to create furniture, to have a bird, to grow a little garden on a balcony, to store all my books in one place.
It`s just too good to be true =)

More shells!

Painting shells is such a pleasure! I think these aren`t the last.

Indian house and plant

For two month we`ve been in India. That`s my first time in Asia and I`m really impressed. 

Drawing a lot on the way. Here`s old indian house at the market area and a popular plant which is everywhere on the southern India. I gathered seeds from it, but not sure if it can grow 5000 miles away from home. I`ll tell you next year)

Pigeons houses

So many great books I haven`t read, so many places I`ve never been, so many people I haven`t met yet. I`m so grateful to the World for its endlessness.

pigeons houses, watercolor 

The start

Maybe you don`t need to change anything -  maybe you need to start something.

Countless small steps. One by one. 

Ще не пізно почати все знову. Десь я звернула не туди. Або це був обхідний шлях, який почався 5 років тому. 
Раптом усвідомила, що єдине, що я добре  вмію робити в цьому житті, це вчитись. Я це роблю ось уже років 18. Суцільне навчання. Робота? Треба піти на рік в яку-небудь контору повчитись. Малювання? Треба спочатку повчитись. І бажано років 5. Сім’я? Треба потренуватись, рано сім’ю. 

І шото я задовбалась вчитись. Пора вже жити, чи що. Власне кажучи, не почати все знову, а почати все вперше.

 gouache on paper

Burnt forest

Міжчасся. Коли старе вже все втрачено, а нового ще нема. 

Навколо хаос і вакуум, з якого тобі треба створити цілий новий світ. 

А в тебе попелище всередині. Всередині попелище, навколо хаос. 

І з цих двох інгредієнтів має вийти ліс. Обов’язково вийде, бо вже нІчим дихати.

І більше жодних недбалих туристів, що запалюють вогнище і йдуть.

Portrait of love and change

This is a portrait of me and my boyfriend Pavlo. Our relations are quite strange now, and I wanted to visualize it. Expressing feelings is what I love the most in drawing.  
I made it with gouache and charcoal pencil

Mountain man

I met this man in the mountains of Caucasus. 

Like my friend from Nigeria used to say, he is my brother from another mother. 

It`s watercolor, though I think gouache suits him more.

Girls

Glass and watercolor

Painting glass is not so easy for me yet. Here are my attempts in watercolor. 

The last one is a jar of stones which I gathered in Albania. Great country. A piece of Asia in the heart of Europe.

Oil pastel food

Hello!

Last year I started to draw on regular basis, and I like it more and more. Now I`m in an active search of my style, technic and niche in art. What I know for sure is that I want to work for myself, work in art and travel the rest of the time. This blog is going to be something like chronics of the process of reaching my goal.

Here is something from my fridge in oil pastels =)

Fenchel

Baby banana

Chili peppers

Pomegranate

Figs

Cherries