The Old Dutch portraits.

Making shots of my jewerly, using situation, we did some style photos with my friend. But as for me I got an interesting photo that reveal old Dutch portraits as association. I don't know why but position of head, stylistic and artist's manner on these canvases attracts me most of all. I find smth lovely in these women: the structure of faces, shapes of noses, foreheads and hairs tell us private features which characterise their personalities. My portrait is in style.=)

Bastiano Mainardi

Ambordgio de Predis

Piero dela Franchesko

Paolo Uchhello

Allessandro Araldi

Polailo

My jewerly and little teddy bear!

I began to restore my community with good photos of my hand-made jewerly! I like to use Deco clay and Fimo for making goods and just  like to make fabric flowers. Of course with more practice I get better result but it's mandatory position because without it you can't stand a real artist or just real proffessional in all ways. I use logo which I created yesterday and of course snow is the best background ever!

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My new logo

 I always wanted to create a community which unite all my doings, all my creations and paintings which I do day by day, but this idea ripened only now. I made a community in a popular social network about  my  hand-made jewerly, but honestly it was not succsessfull and other sides of my  personal art was not included in this community. And I can repeat that I am an interior designer but since we came to live to a new town it seemed that I forgot about my real education. And only a week ago I got the first interior order.

I always develop my human being in three ways: sport, art and English language(that is why I am writing my blog in English). Since I live in Baltiysk I can't find a good job and places for training(I run and train alone and sometimes go to swimmimg pool and gym with my husband if he has time). And I deside to write this blog and to create community. At first I created logo for it. Do you like it? I and my friend liked to shoot photos and I found an old photo of dragonfly and reconstruct it to this nice logo. I don't know why it's dragonfly but in my head it assosiates with ease and inspiration, with a popular place in Baltiysk with the same title. I like insects and like their shapes. Natural leaves, insects, seashells are my fvourites. I don't know if this logo brings me a success but I hope! Do it! =)

Muesly bars. Recipe.

Today I am going to tell you recipe of our family favourite dish - it's muesly bars.

You need:

400 gr of nuts(hazelnuts, peanuts,etc.)

300 gr of dried fruits and candied fruit

150 gr of seeds (pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds)

100 gr of oat flakes

50 gr of air rice or wheat

                                                     Cinnamon teaspoon as you wish

For caramel:

250gr of peanut butter

250gr of honey

50 gr of sugar

one spoon of vanilla extract

150 gr of chocolate bar

HOW TO MAKE:

Cut nuts, dried fruits and candied fruits not small. Mix nuts with seeds and oat flakes and put to oven(200 degrees C). After ten minutes put it out and mix with candied and dried fruits, adding air rice or wheat and cinnamon.

Make a syrup: cook honey, peanut butter, sugar and vanilla extract in a bucket before boiling stirring slowly all the time and than during one minute.

Mix syrup with dry ingridients and put it to form, press it in the form.

Kindle chocolate in a "water bath".  Grease dish with chocolate and let it to stay in cool place.

Through one hour cut it to bars.

It should be very tasty!

St.Valentain's Day.

A post from which I began my blog was about ordered portrait (the orderer asked to do it for today's holiday) but since I made the first post I changed the girl's face for many times and not always I shooted the result. At the end I didn't hope to achieve the result which order like, but everything happened successfully and I got appreciation! I want to show one of the latest shot's detail:

Then I want to say about our family celebration. My husband is working during the whole day, so he presented my a beautiful alive rose yesterday evening and I was making to him an unusual decorative jar in which I was planning to put sweets, but the holiday came so fast and I presented only an empty gift.

My husband worked and I spent the whole day with Vita and Ksusha. It was the last day they were in Baltiysk, tomorrow they 'll go home by plane. At the beginning of the day we were feeding geese and then we went to Baltiyskaya Kosa by sea transport.

This place is an unbelievably valuable place for painting. I did it and it looked in such a way:

It's me- I am sitting and paint!

The girls went for a walk and I sat before I got colder. In the result I got one more sketch and this day  I felt full of inspiration as I am sitting on the border of the world. =)

Walking day Two.

For a long time I was planning to go to paint to Kaliningrad's public aquarium and it recently happened! With Vita and Ksusha we went for a walk one more day and we were on the Kant's island.

 Honestly I did three things which I wanted for a long time. 

At first I found Kaliningrad's Art Gallery and observed an exhibision of Picasso paintings.There were realistic Picasso's paintings which I liked and many sketchs, also graphic serias from Paris and private european collections. I like this exhibition. It helps me to look at Picasso deeper. 

I got time to paint only at two aquariums while Vita and Ksusha were visiting The World's Ocean Museum. But I'll come back and continue. =)

I like the colours of these quikly fishs, I hope I did true colours with my soft pastels.

And the third thing is I went and looked sculptures in the park on the Kant's island while my friends were listening to organ's concert. I have already heard it and using my free time I shooted the soviet sculptural art.

Day's walking.

Hello! I usually try to paint landscapes I see. Everytime I have time and the wether is mild and comfortable I put a paper for sketchs to my bag. For many times already I kept paper and pencils with me but I didn't paint. And now two sisters- my friends from Oryol visit me here for several days. We spend time together and have fun. Today we attended The Amber House (Amber Museum). It is situated in Don's Tower on the bank of a river Pregole. I have visited this museum for two times. And the girls went without me. That time I painted outdoors for the first time this year. Winter continues, so I kept for 50 minutes than I felt cold. 

Don's Tower.

 But I also have different other sketch views of Kaliningrad which I made since my first coming to this town. For example this one of my favourites - Fishing Village.

Some walking details.