A woman's face

Just a girl

I started making this girl for a project, and by the time I finished, I realized that she is totally wrong for it.

But I still like the girl. So here is just a girl. For nothing.

Hello everybody! Long time no post..

... sorry. I some time post a few pictures on my livejournal blog, but that's in Russian, so no interest here.

Recently I've been drawing girls. Various faces and races.
I finally came to a decision, that I do need a proper drawing pad. Anybody uses any? Suggestions? I can't afford $400 ones, so I need something cheaper. But I need it. Suggestions are appreciated. Brand names, and pros and cons. Worst case scenario, I might look them up on craigslist or ebay?

Here are a few girls

Tried myself in oil...

i mean, i tried oil paint. i really really wanted to try. i realize i gotta learn and be more patient, but this was my first. so here it is.

Renoir had this as "two sisters", my girls grew up a little, and turned into "mother and daughter". (hmmmm.. Freudian slip on my behalf? :) )

Ice cream...

We are lucky today... Rather hot outside, with promises of more clouds and even rain later on...

I am into drawing girls :)



Here is a funny story. I posted 3 pictures for sale on ebay. They were not selling and I stopped checking, hoping to receive email notification if they sell.

And then forgot.

And then 7 days later I found out that I need to send a quote to the buyer!!!! OMG!

I sent invoices. I meant to give the guy a shipping discount and instead of discounting, I accidentally double charged him for shipping.

I sent him 2 apologizing messages, but he has not replied yet :)

What a mess..

Hello again

Hello, dear bloggy friends! I disappeared again. sorry. was busy.
We finally bought a house ('ve been looking since February), I finally left my tech.support job (yay!), and I have found me an online gallery to sell some of my paintings. Here (over 21 years old only) ...(oh,yeah!)

Got inspired...

... by this blog here...

I fell in love with those cute girls and decided to make a few for myself :)

IF: worn

I meant to show a worn out dress, ripped to shreds and all faded. But then just ended up drawing an every day situation at home. When I think what to wear. Everything seems to be so worn.

More faeries

I want to make more faeries, and also more non-faeries art. But I am stuck again, because between work, looking for a house and maybe even another job, I have no energy left for anything else.

Here are 3 more little magical creatures.

Mint fairy

Remember the other one, pulling poor plants, "trying to make them grow faster"? LOL

Now, looky how big they are now! Huge! We've been having mint and oregano every day in salads and with onion and peas, and I even add a few leaves of mint into a jug of water, to give it some flavor. Much healthier than... oh well.

My friend's portrait

I have been trying to paint my friend's portrait for several weeks now. Or months. And I was never happy with the results.

And then I decided to go and just draw something. Paint something. And this one came out ok. I mean, a cat looks like a little daredevil, but this is funny, not bad.

Klimt always inspired me. That's Klimt background

Art weekend. Few more sketches

Yesterday I took my mother-in-law on a little art trip around Thornhill.

A bunch of artists and photographers agreed to invite people into their houses to look at their art and, maybe, buy some too. We didn't see all the artists' houses, but the ones that we saw I really enjoyed.

One of the artists - Gary Wein - is actually somebody I know in the real life. I asked him if he ever goes on sketching trips, and he said that not normally but it would be a good idea! So we decided to go on a hiking trip together to the Rattlesnake Point, not far from Toronto. It doesn't even have rattlesnakes, so it is safe and beautiful. I better get me some hiking sketching gear!

Then I came home and made a few more sketches of my husband, a magazine cover and just doodles.









Also, almost every day of the past week I was trying to draw a friend of mine. But I keep failing and not liking the results. She liked this one, but I know the whole face here is wrong... I better figure this out

Another pastel girl

I have not attempted to go for more details yet. I will... I will...

Rose fairy

I noticed CooCoo staring at our rose for a while. I wasn't sure what she was looking at, so I took a quick picture, and OMG! there was a fairy there!!! Look!

Fairy of the blooming flowers

,We have not planted any flowers yet in our backyard, but some of them started coming out by themselves. Maybe a little fairy helped them out?

Sleeping fairy

I have made a few more fairies. This one is sleeping .. shhshshsh....

Flowers and a fairy

So I had this useless crayon drawing and didn't know what to do with it. So I decided to let a fairy in, maybe her magic can save the day? :)

Pastel study, lights and shadows

I wanted to see how to manage light and shadows. Here is a study

Welcome back

A few weeks ago I made this illo and never posted here. Then I never got around to it being busy with some personal stuff. And now I am still a bit busy (making my portfolio website), but I decided to post this illo and wave myself "welcome back" :)

The day for hugging the Sun

here is a small watercolors illo i made for this day.