Cold days have come!

 Time to dig in wardrobes and find all possible warmers: gloves, scarfs, caps, hats, wool socks, etc. Dog days are over, rainy days are over, now it's freezing time! Ok, ok...Let's not be so pessimistic. Let's borrow brilliant book, make a cup of hot chocolate, take a warm blanket and enjoy nice evening.  Or, instead, dust our skiis, ice skates and sledges and enjoy winter madness.
  I didn't miss the view of people rushing in dark coats and jackets, desperately looking for Christmas gifts. They're like giant ravens hunting for things that might help them to survive, focused on absurd matters, forgotting how life should look like.

Birds

So it happened-I'll have my first individual exhibition in December! I feel so excited!

Leitmotif of graphics and drawings shown is "Birds". Birds flying, sitting, catching flies, listening to the music,... Birds made of lines and blots, birds that flew out of my head straight on a paper and stayed there (for ever?). The only one more fascinating and beautiful flying objects than birds are dragonflies, but those are completely different story... I like to collect interesting feathers, i love the metalic shine of magpies, I envy nightingale his voice, I always smile at sparrows... They are the most likeable birds. And peacocks, humming-birds, kingfishers... Owls, great highly-educated owls ;)

When I grow up...I want to be an artist!

What makes you an artist? Graduating art school? Few exhibitions? Artistic theories? That undescribed "something"? Talent, hard work, both? Inner call? How many people graduate Academies of Fine Arts and have noting to do with art later? How many people have real talent without studying how to paint or sculpture? So many questions, so little time...

This is one of my father's gold advices: "Less chatter, more action". When you hear it thousand times, it becomes your thought subconsciously, but when you hear it sung by Elvis ("A little less convesation, a little more action please!")it becomes your life motto! ;)) So pencils, brushes, markers, chisels in hands! Let's conquer the artistic world!

Who's afraid of a pink colour?

Me? No longer :) Pink turned out to be a colour like any other-red, blue, green, yellow, etc. Negative associations with Barbie, immaturity and  kitsch are just a barrier created in my head.

This time i attached photographs.  Basal inspiration were naked trees bathed in the sun, seen through something-dirty glass or curtain. Then the colour. I was neglecting pink, but it returned as strong inspiration. Lesson is: never say never!

Light Line

 What is more important-precision whether expression? Both come with time, with practice. "Practice makes perfect". I've been always curious of how artists' sketchbooks look like. Sketchbook is such an intimate space...where you don't feel pressure to create a masterpiece, where you can let your mind and hand go free, without inhibitions. However we're amazed with sculptures, paintings, haute couture, design- everything starts in artist's head, then is transferred to the paper. I'll even risk a thesis that the whole art world is based on sketch, drawing. There's no art without paper and pencil.

10% of talent, 90% of work

Have you seen early Picasso works? Some people think that he didn't put much effort in his paintings, that it was easier for him to paint like that and that their children can do the same. Well... Maybe i won't even comment this kind of attitude.
Some think that dot is a dot and everyone can make it easily, but it's not truth. At least not for everyone, becouse sometimes to make a dot, the dot, it's very complicated and it requires years of practice in making dots. Sounds funny? Believe me, i'm completely serious now.

The more you know about something, makes you feel that you actually know nothing. "I know that I know nothing"-Socrates was a smart guy, he knew my point exactly ;)

Need for Orange Colour

Last year i had need for blue. I wanted to wrap myself up with blue clothes, write with blue ink, take blue photos, listen to blue music. And now my inner season changed from blue to orange. If blue was internal need for calm, what is orange then? Adventure? Courage? Serenity? And how long this need will last? Will i have enough time to change my wardrobe into brighter colours? ;)