Classes

26/04/2021

Morning passenger in NYC subway
graphite and oil on canvas

06/04/2021

View from the hotel window,
iPad Pro, Procreate

18/02/2021

illustration. Ink!

15/02/2021

quick plenary sketch with Eucalyptus and volleyball net

09/02/2021

: “Field of the Cloth of Gold,” an exhibition of new paintings by Anselm Kiefer, is now open at Gagosian, Le Bourget.

The exhibition’s title refers to the historic peace summit between King Henry VIII and King Francis I that took place five hundred years ago in a field in what is now Pas-de-Calais, France. The conference, centered around a strategic alliance between England and France, had the goal of outlawing war between Christian nations. The alliance was considered a key event in shaping Europe’s geopolitics—until it dissolved and war broke out, a year later. While Kiefer did not begin making these works with this event or title in mind, the connection became apparent and synchronous after their completion. History is one of the materials he uses and synthesizes in his work, “like clay for the sculptor or color for the painter": http://on.gagosian.com/ZNJZ6rM
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Installation views, “Anselm Kiefer: Field of the Cloth of Gold,” Gagosian, Le Bourget, February 7–March 28, 2021. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Thomas Lannes

09/02/2021

Joseph Arthur Smith. A contemporary American drawing master and illustrator. Joe was my professor, during my grad studies at Pratt. A masterful draughtsman and a handsome person that gave me a lot. I am using most of the techniques, that he taught so far.

Jos A. Smith - the creator and the creation.

09/02/2021

A bit of Monet)

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Claude Monet: At or near Argenteuil (1872-1876)
Place of creation: Argenteuil, a commune in the Northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 12.3 km - 7.6 mi - from the center of Paris.

Background Information:
"Paul Hayes Tucker introduces Monet's years in Argenteuil as a 'classic' phase of Impressionism, a period in which Monet developed a formal vocabulary of heightened colour and broken brushwork which he wedded with dynamic compositions and modern subjects.

It was in Argenteuil, that Monet spent the greater part of the decade between the end of 1871 to 1878.

Claude Monet, his wife and son settled in Paris in October 1871 for a few months only to settle later in Argenteuil until 1878.
He would set up his easel out in the countryside or in his garden. But above all it was the Seine and the movement of the small boats which attracted the painter's attention. In his paintings, with their light and vivid colours, Monet shows his perfect mastery of the technique of fragmenting brush strokes, producing an interplay of luminous vibration.

Argenteuil was a picturesque suburban town, well known in the 19th century as an agréable petite ville, which had become, by the mid 1850s, a fashionable place for Sunday outings for middle class Parisians more used to city life.

Stretching along the right bank of the river on a site that gradually slopes up to meet a series of rolling hills to the north, the gracious little town was crisscrossed by numerous winding streets, encircled by fields and promenades, and crowned by the spire of the parish church. It was bordered on the south by the river and linked to the village of Gennevilliers and to Paris by two bridges, one for coaches and pedestrians, and another for the railroad.

Argenteuil, however, was not only the idyllic lieu de loisir of the Parisians, but was also developing into an important industrial area. In his best paintings from the banks of the river, Monet was capable of capturing the double nature of Argenteuil.

In his best paintings from the banks of the river, Monet was capable of capturing the double nature of Argenteuil; the serene, bucolic atmosphere of the countryside along the Seine, and the activity of the new bourg industriel, with its factory sheds and smoking chimneys, cast against sky." — Find out more http://bit.ly/1BNzSI

09/02/2021

Graphite on canvas,
Drawing by memory

30/01/2021

This is a short video of the illustration study of dinosaur's head, done with Procreate on Ipad pro.

30/01/2021

Photo credit: Efim Repin
Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture