I`ve just finished my new AB Painting started before Corfu.

It wasn`t easy to concentrate enough to make last pat of the work, so my special thanks to my friend Stathis for his friendly push me to complete.

Wow! ))

OK, the hot news for today is I am pretty good and ready to an active something. Last several dayes I have negotiations etc planing my new year season:

Last several dayes it was many changes in weather, my mood and health was also unstable so the acclimatization was prepared that way. The weather jumped from warm sweet pleasant to walk in my park:

... to dull raining! What could we do if it`s so heavy clouds over your head?..

... and then turned to windy with my headache:

It was too much for one day so as I overcome it I felt a wish to play my Guzhent tonight just to express unclear feelings:

Next day I had negotiations and then force myself to go out and have something to eat outside just as my friend Stathis told me:

Of course it was a chokolate cake and also I bought a book about Asian Art Museum in France and couldn`t wait with it so started to read in cafe:

Sharing attention between the book and chokolate cake I observed the evidencies hoe Greek culture influenced Asian especially in Gandhara period so the statues of Afganistan and India was very similar with Greeks style:

That everning windy cold weather somehow turned warmer:

It was clear beautiful sunset I saw from my window:

Step by step sunset was off:

So that day I assesed the acclimatization was nearly finished and prepared to everything glorious deeds.

Every time I back from Corfu I have a strong adaptations. Last seasons it was about a month and even more, especially first 1-2 time. I saw crystal sea waters and stones just as a half-transparent layer covers the solid reality. That time the process seemes smoother and may be will finished in two weeks. Yesterday I felt sadness and several times fell in tears about something I didn`t understand exactly. It seemes no logical reason because the weather was sweet but I failed to work and went to our park. Today the weather here changes from a dull rain to windy sunshine and back several times, I am feeling ill and deside to stay in bed doing nothing. May be it`s the right moment to recharge my life-batteries by here specific Moscow-energy, put my feelings of ethernity deeper inside, the place it was before Corfu, so then concentrate and start to work.

Today I have a little bit sadness mood, 1 week out of sea, it`s raiining then shining and raining again so I deside to check my Corfu pictures to have a rest. That seria is about the food.

That visit to Corfu I tryed to forget the law "Never play with food". It suddenly started when I realized that after having my dinner (greec salad) I still have 6 olive bones. That season I took my chinese chopsticks because it more elegant and more comfortable to eat that way. So I could make something interesting with 6 olive bones without using hands directly. I made a flover on a napkin and left it without a mind, but  it took an attention. Next day I did something else the same way, using an olive bones and a little pieces of salad and then the game started.

Kostas - the peson took care of me in dinner time was glad to see the pictures and  turned me to idea to create something more for him. So all of my GreecSaladPictures that season deducates to Kostas

It was about 6 different pictures becames moe and more interesting before I deside to make a photo. Actually I desided only when I created a Mermaid and fount her interesting enough to put into memory. It was a windy day when Kostas offer me my usual Geec Salad and extra italians food. When I saw the makarony I realized a fish tail hiding in it and then use it as a matherial. So you can see her: Kerkia Mermaid for Kostas, was built from salad leaves, makaroni, olive bones, cucumber, small feta cheese pieces and tomato sause (i used it as a glue because it was strong wind blowed up everything).

Two flowers in Kerkira the Mermaid picture is out of my rules to use only matherials existing on plate but it was so lovely to use it!

As I started with biggest and complicated pictures it was a challenge how to support differencies with the same food details. Next time I made a fish:

From time to time I was tired or hungry and ate everything from my plate so it was no matherial for Kostas`s pictures. That one it smaller and was made on napkin:

As I have som exta dishes it turned me to made something new. For example as I starred to sause I realized an elefant inside and did it:

That pictue the extras was a pepper, so the peaces was suitable for red sharp figures. You can see I used onion rings too:

That one is the last picture I made in my last dinner of the season. It was a kind of sad I feel all time I need to leave Corfu so I made a simple flower from tomatos, cabbages strings, watermelon bones, small peaces of cucumber, carrot and olive bones. 

If I will play that game next season it will be pictures too, so Kostas could see it more then one time

That season at Corfu I made several detailed sketches I`d never done before. The environment was so harmony organized that I was catched with a beauty of moment and started to draw instead swimming.

That place is the view from my favourite table in Crickete Taverna belongs to our hotel. Sitting here many hours, observing how the road floats down to the seashore, how shadows changes. Suddenly I realized the beauty of dancing performed by the shadows of trees, dancing of light and forms and blue spots.

Afte several hous shadows become dark and deep as if it was tired from movements.

SO beautiful scene turned me to thing I usially avoid: to paint architecture. It was the fist time I did it, and I started to be involved in a process of understanding how natural and humancould be put together to perform living shadow dance.

At 6.20 it will be the bus pick me to the airport and in the middle of the day I`ll be in Moscow. Sitting in darkness, catching internet connection I recall the colours of sea:

This is the view from my favourite stone to Liapades beach Gefira.  I brought y camera with me when I swimming and make the pics of green crystal water far away from the beach, among stones. Several stones was sharp, another - smoothed by waters, someties i was near falling into waves, but anyway I catch the pictures!

This visit to Cofu I have a chance to see seveal kinds of weather. The most beautiful is clouds in evening sky:

Big clouds was splitted into smallest parts, it was a gentle pocess without strong wind but it could be visible how different layers of air was mixed. All scene with the diection of light and siluets of tees on the mounting was so beautiful then I ran fo my camera to fix it. So after an hour big clouds exists only in my picture:

The sea was sweet and quiet:

... and this is the autoportet!

8-)

Tea ceremony (very short variant) is a significant part of my life. I like tea itself, but not less- accessories and the pocess. So I arranged the trevel tea set and bought it here, to Corfu.

Although I choose everything from many others (I have a lot of tea ceremony accessories and happy with it! 8-)  ) and the set looks nice in my home, here at Corfu it seemed unharmony,  less appropriate to the environment and coused me a little bit upset so I didn`t realize what`s the reason. And once I catched it! My japanese half-moon form tea taray was unrelative to here. So I went to Corfu town in hope to find the best… and I found it! ))

The small thing from olive tree with an elegance wave-shape wasnt` a tea tray exactly, but it ideally suits for the small set:

The result of so small changing overcomes all expectations! The new tea tray is small, for one teapot anf one cup only, but it literary sounds in precious accord with this atmosphere, with mountings I see from my balcony, with trees and sea, sounds with everything. So the small chenge show me how it`s important to invite local things in your life to make it shining.

Well, although I don`t work here so intense then I planed, I`ve made several scetches. This is the olive tree I saw in Paleokastriza:

I use craft paper for scetching to feel free out of details, so the pictures seemes dark. But if you have a moment to imagine what is below the lines you could feel how it is in eality.

Here it is glicinia, just from here, restoran. The day after it dryes so my scetch is the last point of it:

... and sweet rounded stones from a nameless small beach between Hefira and Rovinia available only by flippers:

Such scetches is not self-sufficient pictures but the windows I use to refeel how it was and then transform it into another picture, another feeling, another view may be far away from the basic, started from earth, facing to stars.