Way from Filaos

So long time I haven't been here and as I see dreams really comes true. From my last post already gone more then a month and finally I got the monstera plant! It perfectly added warm and cozy atmosphere at our office living room. And when it's a sunny day I see elegant shadows on the wall from big leaves.  Today I'm going to share my recent artwork. It was painted (not drawn!) while there was winter in Mauritius. As I'm living here on pretty high altitude, there was really rainy and cold. And the seascape was painted with dreams about warm sun. We can see the side of blue boat and sparkling ocean on horizon. It was a beautiful morning in December 2012, when we were going back from music festival on the island. We were on boat and water around was so turquoise. After sleepless night we were looking at sparkling splashes of water and were hiding tired eyes behind sunglasses.

Monster from the garden

I was always dreaming about big home plants and especially about big monstera plant, like in old libraries. And now, while living on warm island, I found it pretty difficult to buy this tropical plant. Everything else but not monstera. So I created this drawing with dreams about plant, maybe dreams will come true soon...

clouds

Every time when I want to draw clouds from memory I can't remember the shape of it. It always become like in cartoon round above and flat underneath. So I decided to look up last weekend and to see what is going in the sky.

Experiments with materials

I liked the theme of skull, it reminds me my school days. We were drawing the real skull and learning anatomy of human. Now I decided to create something interesting and use not only my favorite ink. Here is a mix of few types of paper, paint and ink.

spring smile

Finally, my job and my hobby have merged together! Check the last artwork.

Wild berries

What I really like in Mauritius - season of guava. As I have a russian appetite to vitamins from forests, guava is definitely what I need!))

Cloudy days

Sometimes you come to the beach and realise that there are same clouds as in your town. How sad to think about it - it's winter in Mauritius.

Bananaz!

Wish you all to have a nice Sunday rest))

Leaf and stone

Sorry for the long silent here. I finally finished some new drawings and will share it very soon. Today I want to show my pencil drawing of magic leaf. It is magic because it is something not common for me that the plant (one leaf here) can stay alive during so long time. I started draw it in the beginning of february and finished today. The leaf have been  in glass with some water. It didn't give any roots and any change in color. It's just a magic gift for such long-play artists like me)) And this leaf still alive! Maybe it will appear on other drawings.

portraits

People are always in a hurry and do not want to pose for a long time. Like this appear small sketches drawn with a ballpoint pen.

exotic flowers

More than one year I've been living in Mauritius but still can't stop wondering of the wealth of local flora. So small island but I still haven't seen all treasures of it!)) 

on the hot sand

One new sketch from Albion beach.

Evening in Tamarin

Sometimes there are days when you feel like the silence in the air froze. Pleasantly warm evening sun, coming wave after wave,  people sit under umbrellas in the distance,
but it seems as if shot from the film put on pause. Sunset is long, lingering flight of bat, it all stopped around. And so nice at this time quietly scratch pen to paper.

rainy mood_2

In such rainy days I can't even think about long sitting on plein air. Some aquarel on wet paper + ink for today.

back to school

Long time I wasn't here. Finally after hard work in the end of 2013 I back here with new graphic works. How pleasure to take a brush with ink again. Well, for today I post a new 1-hour-sketch from Curepipe Botanical garden.
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