You'll meet an army of me

Look at my small army of bullfinches! They're waiting for Easter to fly away.

Look at my small army of bullfinches! They're waiting for Easter to fly away.
It's been a while since I posted here. Was on a journey and when came back, need some time to recover. It still seemes quite a silly thing to do - blogging, internet and all that stuff. Though I've started to use my Tumblr account more often to keep some kind of an online inspiration wall. Like it wasn't enough of that crap already, well.
Was in Zina Surova's new studio yesterday. She's making classes with children and the results are stunning.
Updated my portfolio a bit.
Listening to Hayden nearly all the time.

It seems the season of presents isn't over yet. To be sincere I prefer to never end it and keep giving presents through the whole year, especially when nobody's waiting for them. The one above is from Malota. She sent me a beautiful set of her sketchbook drawings and a bunch of pocket calendars. I can recognize myself in that girl with blue hood - it's quite cold here right now. And the book above is from Smil.The drawings of Tove Jansson are just lovely and, oh, those cut-outs make me feel like I'm five.


Yesterday was the last day of our winter intensive illustration courses. We were running it together with Victor Melamed and Ivan Velichko.

Lectures and master-classes from Igor Gurovich, Protey Temen, Lena Plahtienko, Egor Larichev and Alena Smirnitskaya were combined with a lot of practice work and witty tasks. So much fun! For more images go here.

I've got this from Lena Nechepurenko. Just look at this dappled guy! He has an additional hand to cover his mouth which makes him weird and I love it. She's going to sell these brooches, so there's a chance to get one. Or two!
Some other presents of the new year:
PT Sans by Alexandra Korolkova
Diary 2010 featuring Pietari Posti, Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva, Bubi Au Yeung and Irena Zablotska

Wrapped all the presents and scanned all the films. It's time to make toys! Or paint matreshka dolls! By the way Russian Orthodox Christmas is on 7th of January. So I have some time!
Christmas tracing paper toys by Zu4ki
Interview with three designers from Moscow - Vera Evstafieva, Alexandra Korolkova and Elena Novoselova

I made a two-faced caterpillar the other day. Now it's on Craftzine.com.

Red horse prints came out lovely. I wonder how many times did I draw it already? Dozens at least.

Today I made some prints out of that sketch. To be precise I was printing at least half of the day. It's so good to make them tangible.

Lonely Elk made me a gift. It's a sealer! Will be very useful during upcoming season of presents and wrapping.
Clair Loder's ceramic faces