Sketch – Valera the Artist, Yellow

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Sketch – Valera the Harmonica Player

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Sketch – Valera On the Curb

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Sketch – Reading in the Park

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Sketch – Valera Reads A Magazine

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Sketch of Victoria M. playing the Guitar

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My Friend Yan Martsinkevich

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Flowers on a Glass Table

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Black Bread and Boiled Eggs – a student’s meal

A watercolor I once made of my typical meal as a student. Share this... Facebook TwitterGoogle Pinterest Linkedin Whatsapp Ema

An Artist’s Shelf With Brushes

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Still Life: The Turkish Copper Coffee Pot

Where I’m from, we used to brew our coffee in these Turkish-style pots, if we were lucky to get hold of some ground coff

Daisies in a Yellow Jug

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Daisies: A Fragment

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Apple in a Glass of Water

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Paradise Apples, Contained

Paradise apples: a poetic concept suspended in a prosaic container. Share this... Facebook TwitterGoogle Pinterest Linkedin Wh

Mimosas in a Brass Jug

Mimosas in a jug on the floor of the old house where I grew up, lit by the sun from the open window. As I wrote in another pos

Breakfast of an Artist

A morning still life with a cup of tea and pieces of soft and sour farmers’ cheese. Share this... Facebook TwitterGoogle

My Old Shoes

I loved these shoes and didn’t want to part with them even when they began to fall apart. It was as if they were begging

Oak Leaves in a Brass Jug

I got this battered, centuries old brass jug from a Moscow friend, who brought it from an archaeological expedition to the Cau

Still Life with Pussy Willow

An experiment in pointillism. Pussy willows bloom around April, before any other trees. Folks in the old country like to decor

China and Silk: Still Life with a Teapot

This parents’ tea set was too pretty to use every day, but made good still life material in the early 1980s. Share this.

The Black Camel Society

My two best friends from school were coming for the New Year’s party into my house, so I drew a welcoming Happy New Year

The Planet of Thinking Crystals (Teen)

These angular shapes may look like an abstract painting – but they are, in fact, an alien living forest of colorful thinking

Alien Planet with Living Clouds

This planet has a variety of alien life forms, from ball-like creatures that fly in straight formations, to mountainous blobs

Alien Self-Eating Planet (Teen)

As I was drawing doodles in my Biology class, I imagined the possibility of alien life existing, not as individual units, but

The Apple Stub of the Garden of Eden (Teen)

What happened to Adam and Eve’s apple stub? It fell on the ground, developed a root system, and grew into a mighty stub,

A Hairy Jug with Seeing Flowers (Teen)

Just another teenage attempt at surrealism. Share this... Facebook TwitterGoogle Pinterest Linkedin Whatsapp Email

The Interceptor of Souls (Teen)

Another teenage fantasy rooted in childhood nightmares. As I walked home one rainy summer night I noticed that the fog and dri

Surreal Magic Castle (Teen)

Another high school drawing, started in class and finished at home, depicting a magical landscape with a perpetual violent sto

Planet of Erotic Dreams

This was just a high school fantasy landscape influenced by sci-fi novels, hormones, and my attempts to fathom the inner worki

Invader from Hell named Chaos (Teen)

The ultimate horror: a nightmarish nomadic invader bringing destruction and death to civilizations of peaceful farmers and bui

John and Paul Pay a Visit

John Lennon and Paul McCartney hanging out in my old apartment in Ukraine. I originally drew a couple of my friends for whom m

Fantasy Wall Drawing (Teen)

When I was about 16, my parents replaced wallpaper in my room. They didn’t buy enough rolls and ran out of them before t

Mom’s Trip to the Mailbox (Teen)

My mother walking across the yard, back from her trip to the mailbox sometime in the late 1970s. She is carrying home the Prav