a figure with a book (Caserta)

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Recently I was working on the drawing. I treated it as a form of exercise. My main model was a photo showing one of the statues from the garden in the Royal Palace of Caserta in Italy. I'm not sure who was pictured in this sculpture (I suspect it might be allegory of something associated with wisdom, or a goddess). The picture I'm talking about You will find HERE.

So, I took a pencil, a brown paper, and started drawing.

Soon afterwards I was not only using pencil but also a white crayon.

Temptation

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Some time ago I found an old schoolbook. There I found a reproduction of Alphonse Mucha's work called: 'the Moon' (1902).

In 1902 Mucha worked on the series of decorative panels called the Moon and the Stars. 
The illustration you see here, shows a study for the Moon (technique: ink & watercolour on paper).

When I was looking at the picture of the Mysterious Moon Lady, a thought of creating a collage came to my mind.

A Bold Decision

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From time to time I like to cut an interesting words and pictures from the old newspapers, flyers or printed essays (for example a collage poem hanami was created from my old essay about japanese custom).

As time goes by those cuttings will become a part of collage.

And I'm writing all of this because I've created a new one, involving drawings and scraps.

ENJOY!

the Poetic Graphics: the Uncertainty

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     Now's the turn for the fifth post concerning a cycle the Poetic Graphics. This time I made a graphic with english version of my ekphrasis based on Frida Kahlo's the Broken Column (and you could familiarise with original version there). During reading her biography, I emphatised with Mexican artist pretty much... And that was the reason why I wrote this poem.

the Poetic Graphics: the Uncertainty, graphic.

Inspired by Vermeer

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the Other Side of a Girl with a Pearl Earring, graphic, 22.03.2020 r.

It is a graphic which happened quite spontaneously. It was based on my last year's sketch inspired by Girl with a Pearl Earring painted by Johannes Vermeer. Obviously during drawing I couldn't help but do it in manga manner (still see some One Piece vibes ❤️). 

This graphic I'm dedicating to my friend P.P.

Have a Nice Day!

Plus - stay health and strong nowadays!

touched by the Sun

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the Other World: touched by the Sun, graphic

I hope you will appreciate another computer graphic from this little cycle based on work the Other World. This time I focused on yellow colour. 

One of the reason was reference to splendid art of Gustav Klimt - actually I'm still under influence of beauty of the Tree of Life. Another cause were all those free associations with this colour. Obviously, I mean the Sun, sunflowers, grain and even feelings like happiness, joy, optimism, etc.

That's all.

Have a Nice Day!

... to be continued... 

next long story as it seems

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Today I won't write too much. I made a short cycle recently because I wanted to understand something connected with communication among people. I'll just publish it. When I'll show the last one piece of this cycle, then I'll write what's going on. 

Everything is ok (no. 1), pencil, crayon and pen on a paper.

By the way, idea about spider came to my mind thanks to Caspar David Friedrich's work. You could find in the link below.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Melancholie_(Herzog_August_Bibliothek).jpg

Please, stay tuned :-)

Have a Nice Day!

Reverie

Long time no see!

Firstly - I'm sorry for my long absence (again!). I've got lots of things to do and somewhere between them I stopped with my drawings. Well, today I decided to do the same thing I've done with "a hope of the phoenix" - I'll publish not only a drawing but also a poem (THERE <- polish version). I hope you will enjoy this.

Oh, and one more thing. 

Why did I decide to draw a theme like "reverie"? Once in one of the books about art I noticed a masterpiece of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Its title was Reverie. 

It depicted a beautiful and thoughtful lady. 

To be honest, it was a little inspiration for me.

Reverie, crayons on a cardboard, 19,5 x 19cm.

Siren Song

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     In the last day of September I published a drawing inspired by Yuki Kajiura's composition - "Siren song" (Tsubasa Chronicle OST). And I'm sorry for a quality of photo - in fact colours of the drawing are more saturated. Mermaids are connected with water so I decided to draw them in shades of blue and green. 

       Oh, and there's one thing - you probably wouldn't see this. A mermaid from the left lower corner is a small reference to Girl with a Pearl Earring made by Johannes Vermeer. That's all :-D 

Siren Song (Mermaids), crayons on paper, 29,5 x 20,8 cm, 29-30.09.2017.

I hope you'll enjoy my work.

Have a nice day! 

A drawing of sculpture

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   Again - long time no see! Today I'm going to publish my drawing of sculpture. I chose a David made by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. But I didn't draw a full sculpture... My drawing is based on a photo of Bernini's sculpture in the catalogue 'the Galleria Borghese. The Masterpieces'.

This is my drawing:

Bernini's David, pencil on paper, april 2017.

the Beach and the Best Wishes

the Beach, pastel

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That's a kind of a short break in drawing 'Galadriel'... I think that this pastel was made before a Christmas Eve in 2014... I drew it for someone. 

I found a nice photography of Polish beach in one magazine and - inspired by this photography I made this pastel. 

You know... 

Pastel isn't perfect but I love a blue colour.

That's all.

I want to wish you a lovely,

peaceful, happy and cheerful Christmas Eve and Happy New Year 2016!

Bartolome Esteban Murillo,
Adoration of the Shepherds,
c. 1657, oil on canvas,
Museo del Prado, Madrid