Portraits

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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Ukrainian Worker in Siberia

In the 1979-80s the Soviet government encouraged workers to move to the Western Siberia, by paying them double and sometimes t

Vladimir

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Man Against the Window

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Woman in Red – Fragment

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Woman in Red

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Woman Writing a Letter

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Oil Rig Worker

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Young Man from the Caucasus

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Young Roman

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Zubov with the Shadow of a Wing

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Zubov Reading a Sci Fi Novel

My childhood friend in Ukraine who loved reading sci-fi as much as I did. We shared the same obsession with books, music, and

Portrait: Zubov the Thinker

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Inspiration from Matisse

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Nelepushka on the Bench

His last name was Nelepa – rather uncommon and roughly translated as “farcical” or “absurd.” He

Korepanov the Thinker

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Kropotin, Property Owner

This old man was transferred from a psychiatric ward where he was abused and beaten by other mental patients. He kept to himse

Sketch – Valera the Artist, Red

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Sketch – Valera the Harmonica Player

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Sketch – Valera On the Curb

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Sketch of Victoria M. playing the Guitar

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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