Checked out Ding! Dong! exhibition yesterday. The gallery space is nice and cosy, which is rare for Moscow. I've realized I know in person at lest one third of the participants. And the rest by the word of mouth or through the internet. Small world!
Today in the studio. Love that green spot outside the window.
Hooray! My fav local local indie newspaper Okhrannik Spravok Ne Daet runs an exhibition of two projects Ding! Dong! and The Bicycle Map of Europe simultaneously. And they're finally in Moscow. Participated both, lucky me!
Here you can see the preview of the 2nd issue.
If you're in Moscow, be our guest. Exhibition runs until 20th of November.
It was the middle of spring when I got this bear from Ira Vaneeva. Stupidly enough I decided to postpone it to collect a gallery of images first. Well, never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. So, here I am. And by the way looking at my bear now I must admit he has kinda autumn appearance because of that fabric pattern.
Plus some links from the past:
The Truth About Hurricanes by Lena Uzhinova
Life Stories by Polina Petrushina
Ryaba The Hen by Adha
Cool Cat by Lena Potyakina and Zhora Karp
Studio is doing fine, mostly without me. Have no time to get there these days. And if I'm there, I just can't stop browsing through the library or making stupid ink sketches. But, probably, this is exactly what it meant to be.
Can only knit and read. Autumn, here I am.
Look how clever is this! Repair holes and hide stains in woollen jumpers.
From having no studio at all I've moved to two at once. A girl of many contrasts. Just kidding, but who knows. Spent several hours in the art one today. It was amazing. I even made some quick drawings for no other reason, but to use an easel and a brush.
I also found a lot of books there and have a plan to dive into that small library. Pretty sure I had those three when I was a child.
The second issue of my fav local indie newspaper Okhrannik Spravok Ne Daet is coming out. Surprisingly they're going to present it in Berlin! This Friday, September 24th. What the hell am I doing in Moscow?
It's impossible to see my contribution to this project clearly. Believe me, it's in the right upper corner of the bicycle map of Europe. And the map is printed on the back cover of a newspaper itself. And, oh, my task was to draw Iceland with its Eyjafjallajökull! I was one of 30 illustrators mapping the terrain by the way.
Here you can see some work in progress.
For those of you who are in Berlin, please pay a visit. Those guys're going to run multiple activities simultaneously. So you can observe the exhibition of bike-bells, a bicycle map, a selection of short videos about a wheel, dance performance and a live-set by electronic music producer Yellowhead. All at one fell swoop! It will be a nice pastime for sure. Wish I could be there myself!
The exhibitional part of the event will continue till October 10th. Check out Okhrannik Spravok Ne Daet blog for more details.
A couple of images I made for Brazil based agency Pulp Ideias. Plus enormous update of my portfolio just happened.
Also a lot of inspiring stuff at territoiredessens.blogspot.com
Last day of summer and needless to say it was the hottest ever. Still can't figure out really how I managed to produce that acrylic painting for my mom's new summer house in spite all the heat. Used one of my sketchbook spreads though. And, ah, it's important to go back to your roots from time to time. It's a pity I can't actually visit all my relatives, especially those from the country side.
Gone for two weeks to visit my homeland. My colleague Victoria Semykina made a collection of inspired-by-Russia foreign illustrators. Take a look and you'll get a feeling of where I'm going to.
