Illustrations of 2021

 Oh look, another year has flown by. 😆

Only 9 personal paintings this year.
All of the paintings are  4 x 6 inches (10 x 15cm), or smaller.

Materials used: black micron pens (003, 005, 01), black and white waterproof inks, as well as white crayons and salt for some final touches and texture effects.

 

A variety of prints and other items are now available at my shops below.

RedBubble

Society6

INPRNT

 
Originals will be available through my Etsy shop.

Thank you so much for looking and till next time!

P.S. My previous series {is here}.

Снегурочка (Snow Maiden) Holiday Card

Happy last day of November!

I have some new work to show today, finally. This is my holiday card this winter. It's inspired by my Ukrainian and Russian heritage by way of stories of the Snow Maiden and the traditional Slavic headdresses. Hope you enjoy! Below is the creation process.

2. Detailed pencil sketch.

3. Ink drawing with micron pens.

4. Work in progress; painting with (diluted) waterproof coloured inks.

5. Nearing completion; further painting with the (diluted) inks and also gouache accents.

7. Printed holiday cards, almost ready to be mailed. I'm considering adding some flecks of silver, to make them really pop!

Some close ups.

For the original painting, here are the specs:

Size: 6 x 8 inches (paper size)
Materials: Micron pens, Koh-i-noor waterproof coloured inks and water soluble gouache on Strathmore Mixed Media vellum surface paper.


The cards I had printed are 4 x 5 inches and are now available on my Etsy Shop {here}.
Other assorted prints and products are now available on my Society6 and RedBubble pages.

Firebirds of Night and Day

I painted a skateboard deck last winter for a gallery show, and I was pretty happy with the design so when I got a bit of time this summer/autumn I decided to render it on paper=) I called it "Carpe Diem, Carpe Noctem" because "Seize the Day" and "Seize the Night" are some of my favourite sayings. And these Firebirds are reminiscent of night and day, so there we go - a Latin title for a Russian fairytale inspiration. :)

"Carpe Diem, Carpe Noctem"

Here's a close up of some details

And the original deck:

The deck was painted with acrylic paints and Staedler markers for the linework

The work is inspired by Russian folk tale of the Firebird
Original was about 7 x 17" (I think, I'll double check later)
Painted with waterproof inks
  
Prints on Society6{here}
and RedBubble {here}


Happy Monday!

Russian Patterns

Earlier this past semester for my Surface Illustration we were doing various pattern exercises and now, during my holiday I've made this Russian folk art pattern digital. Have a look! I have a few different colour versions here.

a coloured version of the design

black+red

Burgundy + red

white + red

an black outlined rendition

 See how I've put my patterns to use on RedBubble!
Almost Christmas time by the way!