Man in White Shirt

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Man Reading in Sunlight

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Artist Drawing Sketch

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Portrait in Red

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Portrait in Yellow

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Mustachio Man

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The Neck Guy, Take Two

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Man with Athletic Neck

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Nelepa’s Portrait

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Nelepa in Bed

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Crazy Old Man on the Bench

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Childless Lady Knits Baby Shoes for Strangers

This aging childless alcoholic woman in Siberia had spent her youth partying and now she was knitting baby shoes for other peo

Woman of Many Ethnicities – Fragment

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Woman of Many Ethnicities

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Osetin Man’s Dream About Flying Home

Osetin man’s dream about flying home to the Caucasus mountains from Siberia. Share this... Facebook TwitterGoogle Pinter

Osetin Man Reading

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Osetin Man, Stoned

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Osetin Man, Profile

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Two-Colored Ink Portrait of Pavka

I drew him in the style of an early Soviet poster because looked like an earnest, selfless, ascetic, and all-around positive s

Siberian Psycho

This was by no means my best drawing, but just an experiment of what I could accomplish with the limited available materials,

The Renaissance Man

Hailing from the Caucasus, this young man looked like one of Michelangelo’s models. So I also styled it like a Renaissan

Oil Rig Worker in Siberia

Not my best drawing, but he did have a peculiar face… And a weird neck that looked like three Adam’s apples stacke

A Sad Boy

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Nurse Tamarka Sanitarka

Tumen state hospital in Siberia. This nurse looked and acted as if she were on the front lines fighting against the Nazis. So

Sasha the Moscow Hippy

As my friend and I were traveling in Uzbekistan in 1983, we met Sasha – a self-identified hippy from Moscow. He was sit

Self Portrait with a Beard, Pointillism

A fragment of Self Portrait with a Beard, as an experiment in pointillism. Share this... Facebook TwitterGoogle Pinterest Link

Self Portrait with a Beard

This was my last self-portrait, when I briefly grew a beard. I made it in mid or late 20s, right before I gave up painting and

Self Portrait, Picasso-Style

Growing up I had prints of Picasso’s early paintings hanging on my walls. This is my teenage attempt to imitate his styl

Self Portrait with a Smile at 16 Years Old

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Self Portrait as a Conscript into the Soviet Army

Dark and gloomy was the intention. Two years in the Soviet Army wasn’t my idea of a time well spent. Share this... Faceb

Self Portrait as a Student

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Taras Shevchenko Lookalike

This young man reminded me of some of the young Shevchenko’s watercolor self-portraits I had seen in a museum years ago.

Sister Katia as Artemis

I regret never dating my pictures. This one was a rare exception, mostly for decorative reasons. 1984 means I was 24 years old

Sister Katia Reading a Book

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Snoring Patient

This guy had just arrived, told us his name, gave us a stack of humor magazines to read, fell on the bed and started snoring l

Old Man with a Blank Stare

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Tatar Patient Reading in Bed

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Tatar Man – Experimental Portrait

This was an experiment in applying techniques I had learned in Tumen: smudging the ink lines sideways with one stroke of the l

Village Girl from Yaroshivka, Ukraine

This could also be the portrait of Joan of Arc. She had a look of quiet determination and defiance, with crazy sparkles in he

Ukrainian Laborer in Siberia

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