graphics including the rainbow haze

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With the beginning of the March I went on the stroll during which I took a few photos. One of them shows naked branches. It inspired me to create a surreal graphics based on this photo of trees. It was foreseeable. To be fair, it would be strange, if I didn't make one.

Anyway, enjoy!

A mentioned photo showing naked branches. Beginning of the March, 2026.

I cropped the fragment of this photo, and started experiments. Mostly with gradients.

Those experiments resulted in the soft rainbow effect. 

So soft, one may think it's a rainbow mist.

landscape graphics

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I would like to begin my post with a question.

What do You see in the photo below?

I took this photo during the stroll in October 2025.

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.

peacock graphics

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Back in May 2016 I visited Łazienki Park in Warsaw. There I saw not only beautiful buildings and nature but also lots of peacocks. I'm mentioning this because one of the photos showing a peacock led me to experiment a bit in graphics software.

Peacock strolling in the gardens of Łazienki Park in Warsaw. I took this photo in May 2016.

When I look at this photo it seems to me as if peacock was emerging from flowers, or walking on the surface of flowers. I found this part of photo fascinating. 

a ghostly presence's stroll

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Do You happen to remember my post about a drawing dreaming in the meadow? I asked because once again a photo from a thin tiny book with variety of aphorisms (e.g. "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." by Thomas Carlyle) inspired me to create a work. To be precise - a pastel.

In the upper left corner there is a mentioned photo from this little book.

Lone tree among the lavender field - this scenery stimulates imagination. 

sleeping fluffiness

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Lately I found an interesting photo on Twitter (user: Gianni, published 27.10.2024) which inspired me to create a pastel. It was showing a lovely white cat sleeping on a windowsill.

Below there's a mentioned pastel.

sleeping fluffiness, oil and dry pastels on a brown paper, 18 x 12 cm.

rainbowbird

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Some time ago I was browsing through the old photographies, and I found the ones from the Łazienki Park in Warsaw. Among them was a photo of a peahen surrounded by pansies which inspired me to create a colourful graphic.

A peahen in the Łazienki Park in Warsaw. I took this photo on May 2016.

At the beginning of experimenting, I cut this photo and edited it a little bit.

fun with a photo showing an old stairs

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From time to time I like to have fun with turning photos into surreal graphics. Generally, I chose photos showing trees, and trees are present in a photo which You can see below.

Photo from June 2021. It shows old stairs in the nearby park.

But this time trees aren't the main characters. 

I decided to focus on a part with old stonen stairs instead. 

So, I cut this fragment of photo, and edited it slightly.

two dragons

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If You come by my blog from time to time, then surreal graphics based on a photos of trees are nothing new to You. I sometimes like to take photos of the trees. I find them oddly inspiring.

In today's post I'd like to show You another work created thanks to a photo of trees.

In February 2023 I took this photo in the nearby forest.

So, I cropped a fragment from an above photo, and dived into experimenting. 

the Poetic Graphics: the Treasure Seeker

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Back in 2014 I travelled to Tatra mountains in order to see Morskie Oko. The beauty of the lake was mesmerising, and this journey inspired me to wrote a poem Poszukiwacz skarbu. Here you can read an original poem if you are interested. 

It's really old poem. Recently I thought it would be a good idea to translate poem, prepare a special background for it, and made it a part of the series the Poetic Graphics.

Hope You will find it enjoyable.

the Poetic Graphics: the Treasure Seeker, graphic.

dreaming in the meadow

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Lately I was working on a drawing showing two sitting ladies leaning against their backs. I felt an urge to draw them because of a certain photo which I found in thin book with aphorisms (there are quotes like "Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study." by sir Francis Bacon).

In the upper part of this photo you can notice a photo in the mentioned book. When I looked at this photo I thought it would be fun to create a picture with two figures sitting like that. But show them in a different way, in a dreamy setting.

blue sorcery

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Occasionally, I find a strange pleasure in taking photos of trees. There's something fascinating in staring at complex trees' branches as they try to reach the sky. It's a usual thing for me to experiment a little with these photos in graphic software.

This is why this post came into being - I've created another surreal graphic based on a photo which you can see below.

I took this photo during the stroll in January 2024.

Curia Julia in the Roman Forum

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Lately I wanted to practise drawing an architecture. This exercise would be helpful when I'll be doing a Cityscape (one of my 3 aims). So I was searching through various photographies on postcards, or in the books. And I found an inspiring one. It was a photo showing Curia Julia (Latin: Curia Iulia) in the Roman Forum which comes from the book about past and present Rome (the polish edition of R. A. Staccioli's book).

Forum Romanum, Curia Julia's building. 
Source of photo:
R. A. Staccioli, Rzym kiedyś i dzisiaj z rekonstrukcjami, Rzym 2008, s. 23.

two barberry graphics

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Back in the 2023 I made a photo of a barberry, and immediately took a liking to it.

I took a photo of this barberry at the beginning of March, 2023.

The reason I'm writing about this photo is creation of a graphic from a cropped fragment of this picture (a photo's centre). Then I started to play with it in graphic software. I wanted to create a completely new graphic. After flipping, combining copies of a photo, et cetera I obtained this effect.

sentimental journey

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From time to time I like to cut intriguing words and sentences from old newspapers. The same goes for interesting pictures. There's lot of potential in them. For example you can create a collage.

And today I'm coming to you with a collage with a travelling theme.

mesmerising forest

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From time to time I'd like to snap pictures of the nature. Trees happen to be impressive models.

Photos of trees sometimes inspire me to create crazy, and surreal graphics.

That's the reason why I wrote this post - I've made another surreal graphic. 

I took this photo on April this year in the nearby forest.

a picture of a horse

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For some time an idea of drawing a horse was clinging to me. So it became my aim.

I started with drawing a sketch based on a following photo.

Horse. Source of illustration.

Below you can see a sketch I've made with a pencil.

unreal impression

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From time to time I spend time on creating surreal graphics which are based on photographies of trees.

Trees are inspiring. Trees can save you during the hot day in the city.

Anyway you see another surreal graphic today.

Here you see trees from nearby forest. I took this photo this year on February.
That day weather was really lovely.

I cropped out a part of this photo and experimented with it.

Oh my dear, isn't it deer?

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Recently I drew a deer. What inspired me to do this was a story of my cousin who saw this majestic animal in the forest. 

A backup for me was a photography found on Shutterstock.

Below you can look at net result.

Deer, pen on a paper, 29,5 x 21 cm.

the Poetic Graphics: blockage

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In the end of July 2021 I wrote a poem which developed from my casual reflections about kanashibari (jap. 金縛り, this is the japanese term for sleep paralysis), and all those stressful situations in which we are unable to say anything.

The original poem you can read HERE.

Below there is blockage as a part of the Poetic Graphics.

the Poetic Graphics: blockage, graphic.