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This one comes from Dennis Severer’s House in East London. The picture here shows  a set up of objects from 18c - the whole house looks like this:  their ancient residents have just left it - tea pots, walking sticks, unmade beds and even food! A must-see if you make it out to London sometime.

2008 oil on panel 15×15 cm

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No completed oil today, just a quick watercolor of my boys roaming around the house on Sunday night.

After a holiday break back to my ongoing theme - Kyiv traffic. Visit there and the exhibit went great, lots of new impressions to interpret here for the next couple of weeks.

2008 oil on panel 15×15 cm

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Neocolor crayons on A4 paper, NFS

Nataliya has very captivating face. I painted her before (the one on the left), in oils, but this one seems to have gone better -  in Neocolor II crayons on A4 sized paper. She came to my Kyiv  exhibit and then we bumped into each other at Repriza on Lva Tolstogo the day after - so I had her on my mind so here’s what turned out.

Don’t feel like I can pull out my oils yet. Here are some crayon drawings of an amazing winter day I witnessed when in Kyiv last week. This is my neighborhood in Kyiv when I am visiting there.  The pine trees were so full of snow that day - they looked gray, so did the winter day. Love how the new high rises when they came up did not wipe out the pine forest around them.

Ukrainian art scene notes: Absolutely favoarite children’s book illustrations come out in the books of Ababagalamaga publishing house that finally came up with their website. The other day I spotted in a London windowshop their award winning Snowqueen.

Here’s a lovely video greeting from Urban Sketchers put together by Gabi (including my crayon sketch of a black cab) Wishing you a happy and prosperous 2009!

After the show in Kyiv I am taking off two weeks.  Thank you all for the great time and making it succsessful!

Just blogged on my current vacation on Urban Sketchers.  Missing my oils on the road very much.

Happy Holidays!

Three days left to my Kyiv show. 

Map to the place (in Russian).

Another take on a fireplace scene - this time of my dad lighting up his fireplace at the Lutsk house. Can you think of more cozy fireplaces to paint for me?! I seem to can’t have enough of them.

2008 oil on panel 15×15 cm

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This view comes from the same friend’s apartment, that the Pushkinska street view. I could not phtograph it right at the time I finished it, so now that a shiny new scanner is sitting on my shelves, here it is:

2008 oil on panel 15×15 cm SOLD