October, mountains, Safed

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October, mountains, Safed

October, mountains, Safed"> Old Safed is in the north Israel – the city of kabbalists and artists. He is like a jew in an old fashioned frock-coat and with player in the ear. He sits on top of a mountain and looking down on our fuss with condescending understanding...

Solovetsky Islands

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Solovetsky Islands

Solovetsky Islands"> The Solovetsky Islands – warm oasis in the harsh White Sea. The complicated and interesting history (counting from the III millennium BC), the beautiful nature, unique architecture… I’ve been there several times. «Landing» of artists (except me, Vasily Kuritsyn and Alexander Sverchkov)   Under the domes   Well, as without fishing…   Story with a goat. Felt pen   Worldly concerns. Felt pen   Coast. Pencil   White night of Zayatsky island....

Over the Sea of ​​Galilee

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Over the Sea of ​​Galilee

Over the Sea of ​​Galilee"> The Sea of ​​Galilee (Kinneret) has a 60-km length of the coasts – coasts is absolutely biblical. Here is the Tiberias – the birthplace of the Talmud. And here is the Christ began his preachings, has found disciples and performed...

Jerusalem’s spinning top (Sevivon)

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Jerusalem’s spinning top (Sevivon)

Jerusalem’s spinning top (Sevivon)"> I finished a new painting and decided to show several stages of work. I hope, someone will be interested… Sevivon – spinning top, which children play in the holiday of Hanukkah. In the mystical tradition sevivon, among other things, symbolizes the wheel of history, our hopes and choice The first sketch and a color sketch   Preparatory drawing for canvas   The underpainting on canvas   In the work   Canvas / oil, 70 x...

Сaricatures for Blazer Magazine

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Сaricatures for Blazer Magazine

Сaricatures for Blazer Magazine"> Blazer – the most popular men’s magazine in Israel. Here a wide scope for the illustrator – from food, fashion and sport to politics… And I have only pleasant memories of the times of our cooperation   Presentation of new authors   My first work: George Bush, acrylic. Later there were pencil caricatures of contemporary Israeli politicians. Very “friendly” caricatures – almost without grotesque, but in curious images, understandable to the Israelis   Yossi Sarid and Eli Yishai   Tommy Lapid and Ariel Sharon   Natan...

Art School

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Art School

Art School"> Work at the Children’s Art School in Severodvinsk: the sea of nostalgic memories and a little photos. School building, where I began to work   Nearly ceremonial portrait of teachers   Do not ceremonial portrait of teachers at “cleaning day”. With shovels: the then director of the school Y.Zavoykin and the current L.Safonova. Very is symbolic…   In the classroom with schoolgirls   On the plein air with A.Mishin   Caricature of me by work L.Safonova. Clay   Art School...

Two weeks of August

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Two weeks of August

Two weeks of August"> I have been to Russia, visited a relative in Konoshsky area. It is North, where was exiled poet Joseph Brodsky. Years later he wrote: “In these sad edges all calculated for the winter”. For two weeks I never felt sad – I read a lot, watched a lot and painted a little. And I exceeded the plan by good thoughts …         Etudes, pastel       03.09.2013...

Golan – the birthplace of giants

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Golan – the birthplace of giants

Golan – the birthplace of giants"> Israel and Syria consider the Golan Heights as its territory. And the Torah calls this place the “Land of Bashan”. Here lived the giants led by the king Og. The king was lucky – he (only one of the all giants) was saved during the Flood on the roof of Noah’s ark. But he is no longer gave rise to progeny, that can lay claim to Golan … The road …   Foothill   The distant snow   An introduction to the giants   Giants. Illustration fo book “Noah’s Ark”   The king Оg. Illustration fo book “Noah’s...

Etudes of Volga

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Etudes of Volga

Etudes of Volga "> Volga different. You can go across the blue expanse on the white motor ship past the domes of churches. And you can to live in a tent on a deserted beach. Between the river, forest and sky… And that’s another Volga, another poetry. On a river   The campground. Felt pen   A fisherman with a secret. Felt pen   Morning. Pastel   Clear space. Pastel   The first mushrooms. Pastel   Wildflowers. Pastel   Still-life with smoked fish....

Glamour for Channel One

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Glamour for Channel One

Glamour for Channel One "> The offer of the Channel One TV Russia was interesting: to make two “portraits” of actress Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, as elements of a television show scene. Urgent for 10 days in the Art Deco style… When the program was broadcast, I could hardly find my works and I did not recognize them in the light of red spotlights… And it serves me right – do not go to glamor! By the way, the show “Nastya” was closed after several releases Vector drawings. Each portrait 200 x 80sm     Question to the observant audience: did you find the...

Japan Sea coast

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Japan Sea coast

Japan Sea coast"> The Far east of Russia, Sea of ​​Japan. These places not been affected from the Ice Age, so the flora and fauna are preserved almost intact. All the big, bright, enigmatic … By the sea   Rocky shores. Pastel   Bay of the Trinity. Pastel   Steamer. Pastel   Taiga flowers. Pastel   Сatch. Pastel   Trepangs....

Down the Mezen River

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Down the Mezen River

Down the Mezen River"> Russia, Arkhangelsk region, the river Mezen – “Bear Territory”, as they call such areas… We were three artists (except me, Alexander Maletin and Gennady Sadomovsky) on a raft, which we have built of the two boats and a boardwalk with a tent. 200 kilometers downstream to the White Sea – through places almost untouched by civilization. We fished, breathed fresh air of the North and, of course, we were drawing…   Route   As large as life   Song   Sun and mosquitoes. Felt pen   Portrait of a hunter. Indian ink   Island....

Northern Fleet

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Northern Fleet

Northern Fleet"> A few pictures from the time of my sailors’ service. I’m a shooter…       Оn duty        With admiral Makarov        With petty officer Baykov   Petty officer. Pencil       Shot. From the series “Guarding the frontiers”. Indian...

One day in the Timna valley

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One day in the Timna valley

One day in the Timna valley "> Timna valley, Israel, King Solomon’s Mines … Feeling a huge pavilion for the shooting of “space” movies.  ...

Pool: interior painting

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Pool: interior painting

Pool: interior painting"> It was an interesting job: over 200 sq.m of levantine landscape, not counting sky on the ceiling. In addition, were made murals on wall in lobby and on two elevator doors. Object: a swimming pool in a five star nursing home with a beautiful name «Palace Tel-Aviv»   Multiple sketches and fragments of the interior with details of the painting…             In conclusion, a new aspect – photo from the...

Work in Animated Storyboards

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Work in Animated Storyboards

Work in Animated Storyboards"> Animated Storyboards (USA) – the world famous company. The company’s product – “test animation” of future commercials – the result activities of many people. I worked there as an atist-illustrator: making storyboards, drawing backgrounds and objects of future animation. For example, for this video I made the assembling of final scene and vector drawing of apple, which in different variants is used in still life   Here it is, this apple   And this is a vector drawing from the photo on the background of the photo itself. You can compare...

Oleg Lerman

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Oleg Lerman

Oleg Lerman"> Poet Oleg Lerman – author by almost a thousand verses and thirteen poems, winner of international poetry competitions. On his verses written over 60 songs… In his works philosophy coexists with phantasmagoria, drama with irony, lyric with mysticism. I am glad that some verses of Oleg were inspired by my paintings. For the first time, these verses are collected together. Sorry, they exist only in Russian… Perhaps you want to translate into English? Oleg Lerman     Traveling with the dragon Мы полетим с тобою в небеса, Где дивный...