1 year ago at Corfu i started a new Graphics from 2 parts. It was an year I was trying to finish it step by step and now, 1 day before I`ll move to Corfu, it`s finished!

(The big picture below)

I focused at a point we plane something having an ideal view and no ideas how it will be in reality. It`s the position we ought to support our understandind the ideal result and accept some aberrations, sometimes it could be stange, sometimes - not intime and so painful, sometimes through deadly tirediness. How an idea could be transfered from it beginning, what we ought have to grow it and details involved - all things here. in shadows of black and white, through dots and strokes you could meditate to achive something new helpful to do.

The idea of that graphics come to me while I was standing on the tail to the fly to Greece. It was many people with laggage, childres, hot air and everyone in harry. So I turned my case to it`s side, sat down on it and started to make the sketch until I felt the idea of future picture.

 It was a strange feeling. A mounting represents the solid reality, and a moonlight is well known as a substance of dreames. I felt how such so different parts could be mixed, how it penetrates each others to form a billion things between it`s limits.

I remember it and in nearest future plan to paint the final picture.

I`ve finished the next picture in seria of graphics work named "The Rising".

That seria represents the way we growth our personality and soul - by ourselves or as circumstances dictate. Even if it is hard (usially it is!) there is several points to have a rest. After mountings it will be a plateau. We fill it as not a paradise and not a final point, but something misty, unclear and afflictable… but also standing. After a hard ascent without any point for rest a plateau feels different.
 

One of the hardest moments is the time you top the border from flank to plateau.  That time eveyone feels exhausted and all feelings and intellection are unclear. Thet time seems as the last night hour before  sunrise, and sometimes we feels hopelessness. It`s the effects of  transformation inside so… We have to make an effort to feel the power helps us.

I started it just in the second moment when had finished "The Great Festival". It was work with full concentration and it was quickly - about several hours. I was trying a new technigue I designet to imitate silk fabric`s effects on the paper.

  The picture includes Chinese style painting and represents… You can imagine anything from own associations, it may be symbols of soul teaching or rememberance about a hart time in own life. From my side it is both position. It shows my today depression and feelings of present moment and also have a symbolic meaning. The great advantage of paintings is possibility to show everything in one A4 paper you can observe by one glance. This is why I practice it all of my life.

Today (may be better to say "that noght, or that early morning? It was about 4 A.M.) I have finished the next Graphics named "Great Festival" and also have made another one ("Rising"). Small picture of "Great Festival" is here, the big one at the end of the post.

  The main idea of it is the cycle of spiritual birth and death and the way to escape it. What is the Festival? It`s may be different for diferent people. One selebrates birthday, another - re-births, or the final salutation such as glory death in samurai`s codex.

Is it possible to selebrate the escape from this cycle? What is the way to be out from it? Or may be the knowledge itself is the reason to be selebrated?

If you know it by your own experiance it is the greatest adventure  be worth to celebrate… Levels of understanding, one inside another, deeper and more clear. This is no words to explain it correctly because words forms the 2D line - but experience is 3D, may be 4D. Spiritual feeling that a soul is the same as God and rules body and forms the line of events by it… I can`t tell it is words the way lets me feel satisfy. So I paint it. You can read the visual information and let youself feel it.

Hello everybody! Today is +20 in Moscow, so i am thaw out and ready to share with you my experience of painting. This is step-by-step description of my work "Komuso monk" and about 10 pictures you can see under cut. This is the final view.

I was impressed by the dark sky with violet clouds described here annamain.org/index.php/site/comments/new_graphic_with_dark_sky_symphony/

My instruments was 2 aqua-brushes with ink; one with pure black ink, and another with 30% ink in water. I used an aquarel paper A4 and several aqua pencils (Derwent`s and Gretacolor`s Aquamonoliths)

If you don`t like aqua-brushes it would be the same process to use a classical brush #4 or #5… or the size you like.  I recommend to use squirrell brush because it could suck up more water or ink in one time. First of all I made several strokes with pure water to form the light tops of the clouds. Then I made the bottoms of clouds with 30% ink. If you make several strokes on one place of the paper it will be more deep color of ink. It was a bit dark on my balcony when I did it so the picture is not the best. But you can see here how the clouds setuated on the paper: with an angle to horizont. It means the wind.

While the picture still wet make strokes with pure ink. If you lightly touch the wet places with a tip of a brush the paper easily and naturally pull in the ink into the picture. You should pay attention how the dark ink distributes on the clouds to make the best shape.

An aquarel paper with rugged structure has own possibilities to interact with water and ink. So you shoudn`t afraid of water`s drops and only check how the ink spreads on the surface. Use pure ink, 30% ink and pure water to form different colors of clouds.

Here you can see how brush strokes creates a vision of cold dark clouds and wind. There is no needs to finish every cloud with the same strokes. If a wind is strong it tears clouds. Take care to paint clouds in different angles to each others. It makes  picture a natural view because as if you see the scene from the earth.

When I had finished with clouds I painted several culms of a grass at the left corner. I did it with 100% ink over the clouds, so it`s importand to make clouds dry before painting.

The figure of aKomuso Monk was made with pure dark ink too, the same way as the grass. The angle of clouds haven`t the same as the grass because clouds are far away. But the direction of the wind for the earth objects is about the same. So the grass and monk`s clothes  flutters together. In that point you could finish your work as a monochrome picture. I desided to go farther and input several colors.

You can see a blank white paper between ink objects. I started with a pancils to make white holes deeper.

Light apricot and several shadows of blue aquamonolith pencils - this is my choice for that picture.

After drawing I washed out pencil`s strokes with water brush, made picture dry and made a durk dust with the pure ink.  It seemed right to made several strokes with yellow pencil and washed it out the same way. White points was made as a last act… So the picture was completed. May be it will be one of the parts for next big acrilic painting.

Hello everybody. I should to say about it ‘Hot news’ but actually this is cold here. This is so cold here in Moscow then my paintings need hours to dry so I have to use fen for it. This picture named "Universe-I" and represents the esoteric idea (also used in Astrology and Philosophy) of the cycle of nature elements: Water-Fire-Earth-Air. Small picture:

  Ideas of movement, how ideal idea could embodys to the solid forms, the process itself - this is my investigation and feelings. Step by step, from quiet statics, so fine and hardly perceptible has it`s own desire to be exist among people. Step by step it percolates through the everyday`s noise to something new, visible. I can feel it before I`ll give my brushes and instruments, choose paper and start to create. Before the first stroke I concentrate to the ideal form, Idea itself, then I must see it through the paper and like under it and then stabilize the image and start to work.

In the Graphics I want to represent the ideal ideas in it`s movement, live and full of information.

Yesterday sky was dark and blue, with lacerated dark-blue clouds aflared with the wind… I opened all windows on my 21-floor balcony and enjoyed that nature`s symphony.

It was a kind of such feeling turnes us to feel deeper so I started to paint. It was dark and I changed the place to the tea-table and made the new picture. The athmosphere of fire, teapot, tea and painting in ink technigue, and mistery clouds in the sky - everything was the reasons to paint the picture with monk-kamuso. This is Japanese Zen sect of mendicant monks trevels around Japan playing sakuhachi flute. (On the 1-st of septebber I was listening sakuhachi on a concert). A monk-kamuso tipically coveres his face with a basket:

In the middle of my work the picture seemed like that:

As I had finished with ink I felt this is something more in the picture. It was the deep storm sea with waves and wind, and colors of sun behind the clouds, So I deside to continue painting. I will publish the result tomorrow because I have to sleep. As a professor  I have to teach students tomorow early morning. Oh my god, I must go to bed and try to  sleep about 5 hours. It`s a pity because this is my favorite time to paint…

I`ve just finished a new one graphics named "Milky Way-I". That time I clearly knew from the first minute what exectly it will be. This is graphic work A4 size (20 x 29 cm) on special paper for aquarel. Made by pencils Derwent, chhinese brush and ink, liners, charkoals and such tools as aqua-brushes. I like that tools and the way I can express my ideas.

And big size:

Later I plan to publish the process of creation so hopes you will be back.