Swan Lake

I have been to see a performance of the Moscow Ballet the other day. They performed Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky.
Everything about it was very enchanting and so inspiring that I wished it would have been a bit brighter so I'd actually be able to sketch right there in the audience..

Anyway I did these pencil drawings once I came home and they turned out pretty close to what I wanted them to look like so I'm very pleased. :)
Hope you like them too.

 

w.i.p.

 

 

Cemetery Junction

I spent some time sketching at the cemetery today. You meet some weird characters if you stay there for too long but the weather was lovely and provided just the right contrast.

 

 

 

The Beauty in Decay

 

Hello everyone. :)

We've been given a new long-term project for University. It's to do with recording our lives and the things that excite us so basically doing lots of observational drawings. We also should consider the way we display all these drawings.

Since I'm mostly interested in capturing the beauty of decay in my works it was an obvious choice to pick an old book from a charity shop to work in instead of a brandnew, perfectly bound sketchbook without character. These old books really do have a lot of character and stories to tell - just as the things I like to observe with my drawings so I guess it's a suitable display. :)

Anyway, I splattered some paint all over the pages to cover up some of the images and texts in there and to create some very interesting pattern and textures as well as different colour schemes - for every drawing I do in there now I'll be able to pick the perfect background. I did use acrylics for this in combination with coffee and salt - my all time favourites. It definitely was a lot of fun and I'm very much looking forward to filling all those pages with drawings of strange things.♥

 

 

The first thing I put in there yesterday was a bunch of flowers. Actually I wanted to paint them some weeks ago when I got them but I never got down to do it... Fortunately though, because they've only gotten prettier with time and fit the theme of my book much better now so it was pure joy for me to draw them. ♥

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's for all the lovers out there who's love might not be in full bloom today but who patiently hold on to it because they know some day it will bloom again.♥

I hope you had a lovely St. Valentine's Day.

Commission: Snail Rider + Prints for Sale

A commission for a lovely lady - her OC the mysterious, nameless
Snail Rider, who was an absolute pleasure to draw and paint.
Thank you for this great commission, I hope it'll arrrive soon and safe.

 

 

Also I have been part of an exhibition last Sunday and it was a quite successful and lovely event. I met wonderful people and had a very good time. Also I sold some prints of my work which are available online now as well, here in the new section [Things for SALE].
Go have a look if you're interested. :)

 

 

Commission: Spoon

 

 

 

 

 

More Workshops

 

 Here are some more outcomes of the workshops we did at Uni within the last few weeks.
One was called Realism Now! and we were tought how to create very realistic portraits using layers of crosshatching. I really enjoyed it. :)

 

they looked lovely all put on the wall next to each other.

 We also did some very quick life drawing sessions where we had to change material constantly.

 

 

Then we did something colaborative called 'film on the wall' which was a lot of fun even though it looks kind of weird...

 

And some still lifes using some dead animals.