Irina Troitskaya

March 14, 2010 @ 15:30

You'll meet an army of me

Bullfinches

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

March 14, 2010 @ 15:29

What do i do this for? I've got to get out some more

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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.

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Updated my portfolio a bit.

Listening to Hayden nearly all the time.

January 22, 2010 @ 16:08

Make me think beautiful unexpected thoughts

Marsketchbook

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.

Tuve

Books from blocks by Natali Fortier
Vintage Fairy Tales

January 19, 2010 @ 01:21

It's a surefire way to speed things up

Studio

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

Portrait

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.

January 6, 2010 @ 15:23

Told a story about a man who is too afraid to fly so he never did land

Nechepurenka

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

Collection a Day by Lisa Congdon

December 24, 2009 @ 20:21

Left beneath Christmas trees in the snow

Christmas

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

December 22, 2009 @ 00:59

Tell them a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call

Caterpillar_krendel

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

Murzilka Magazine, #12, 1980

December 15, 2009 @ 00:46

I've been through the desert on a horse with no name

Redhorseprint

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

Wetki
Alberto Vazquez

December 1, 2009 @ 01:38

Wake me up and wipe the cliche from my eyes

Cliche_printing

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.

Allison Schulnik
Pencil Talk

November 22, 2009 @ 23:46

And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff

Sealer

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

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