olha pryymak

A completed commission for a friend.  Growing up in West Ukrainian countryside and having a father- an avid hunter, helped imagine this scene.

15×15 cm, oil on panel,  2010, sold

The other weekend went with friends to the local burger joint in Spitalfieds just to be served the tallest burger I’ve ever seen.  Captured them sizing it up to and the taking a pic of it with their iphones.

15×15 cm, oil on panel,  2010, nfs

A new daily painting for today – and a break from working on the very large (2 x 2 m!) Brick Lane piece.  Everyone is pretty tired of bundling up before leaving for outside, and getting drenched in icy rain.  Let there be sunshine this coming weekend!

15×15 cm, oil on panel,  2010, sold

I’ve realized I had this painting finished for some time now and have not gotten a chance to post it. It’s one of my biggish portraits, I am getting more  comfortable with this format. The little guy was very hard to settle down though. My tricks included cartoons on a laptop perched at the back of my easel and getting him to draw me in return.

Meanwhile I’ve been regularly posting one new watercolor a day on Etsy, see the thumbnails below.

oil on panel, 39×55 cm

Number five from the period interiors at the Geffrye Museum in London.

oil on panel,  2010,  listed on Etsy

Number four from the period interiors at the Geffrye Museum in London.

Check my shop for some new reductions on the older paintings in the Sale section.

oil on panel,  2010,  listed on Etsy

I can’t pinpoint what is that gives the scene most comfort: the red chair cushions, the wooden panelling or the marble mantelpiece, but I so imagine myself in that room right now sipping a cup of tea with something sweet to eat with it.

oil on panel,  2010, sold

Another fantastic drawing room from the Geffrye museum installation. Moody blue colour scheme attracted me here. The information on the set states that the drawing room was mostly used for meeting guests, reading, playing music and making art – my kind of place in the house!

Even though I painted it, I have no idea what is that framed board on a pole standing behind the chair on the left. Any ideas from English historic interior connoisseurs?

oil on panel,  6×6 in, 2010,  listed on Etsy

Made a rewarding trip to the Geffrye museum this weekend. As a result – new observations of English period interior . I plan on about four more of similar paintings this week because the bad weather and a cold does not allow me to get outside.

oil on panel,  2010,  listed on Etsy

This beautiful building houses a premier Roman art gallery Dart. This month it has on show the works of Boldini and his fellow Italians in Rome during the Impressionist period. I particularly loved his work because he was clearly very influenced by  John Singer Sargent and Ernest Messonier.

(detail view) pen and watercolour,  2009, listed on Etsy