Many Springs Have Come To Pass

Mixed media, 43x30 cm, 2013

Winter Sunset

Oil on panel, 40x20 cm, 2013

January Plein Air

Oil on paper, 29x20.5 cm, 2013

Sleeping Trees

First painting in 2012. Love winter outdoor painting! It's cold, it's cool!
Oil on cardboard, 30x30 cm, 2012.

Warm December

Oil on canvas, 40x30 cm, 2011

Forest Sunset

watercolor, pastel on paper, 21x29.7 cm, 2011

March Plein Air

Another spring plein air. Damn cold again. Very refreshing. And of course fulfilling.

Ostara Sun

First spring plein air. Damn cold.
Oil on panel, 35x25 cm, 2011

Winter Plein Air (Forest Cabin)

Winter plein air is an extreme experience, you have two main goals - artistic and survival. Or, rather, survival and artistic. Still it gives you many advantages - you HAVE TO work quickly and you take on a whole new style due to holding your brush in mittens. And hot cocoa is a must, of course, though I've heard some artists prefer vodka.

Two Oak Trees

Wonderful old oak trees in warm September sun. Wish this weather would last forever..

May plein air. Budaika Bridge

Oil on canvas, 40x30, 2010

April Plein Air

Another perfect day in the forest, some insect bites, cacao to get me warm, some curious public, one too curious dog, more cacao, traffic jam on my way home - and here is the result.

March plein air

This is my first plein air this year and it was an extremely good time spent in the forest. Wanted to capture first spring feeling in the air, and nevermind I was freezing in the end, hot cocoa in my Thermos saved my life.

Awaiting The Rain

While there is a winter at full swing outside I set on summer series and this is the third work from the set. Soft summer evening just before the rain with moisture-fed air and dense colors of green.

summer summit

The perspective was good, so was the sun, the road, the forest and the rest of it.

Every Road Ends Somewhere

Summer memories from late August with beautiful evening sky and mist coming over the grass fields.

Forester's cabin

This is a forester's cabin at Losiny Ostrov National Park in Moscow. Photo was taken two years ago during winter ski walk, but I wanted to paint it all this time and kept photo handy :)
Finally I got my hand at oils and thought this was it, oil being a perfect media for capturing white snow on a cloudy winter day...
Hope this painting reflects the serenity and silence of this magic place.

Nuthatch in early spring

Old pastel revised - with new background and more colors. This photo was taken from my favorite book "Forest" - meaning forest in European part of our planet :)
The name of this bird in Russian is popolzen', which can be translated as "crawler", referring to its way of moving along a tree...