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Working with acrylic. What’s new
There are always stops or braking in the artist’s work.
It is necessary for rethinking.
What did you do?
How much did you do?
What is successful?
What do customers like?
What failed and did not work?
Why?
After such a stop, all creativity looks anew.
Have you ever had this?
I experienced such silence.
During this time, several times I wanted to sit down and draw several paintings in a row. I was drawn to creativity.
But there were reasons that stopped me – this is a bad market in the last two years, this is the inability to actively sell paintings through galleries, these are sanitary standards that interfere with work.

But I went back to creating a few paintings.
Let it be in the last month of the outgoing year, but I will create some work.
What has changed during my time of silence?
I met and started working with acrylic.

After work with oil paint, working with acrylic is both easier and more difficult.
Why, I’ll explain now.
The technique of painting with oil paints is layered. After the initial layer, a second layer is applied, then you wait for the paint to dry and correct the work.
Working with acrylic is easier and faster. The base of the drawing is immediately created and then the details emerge. The material dries quickly and you need to prepare before work in advance.
It’s harder, you need to quickly draw the details, highlight the background and shadows, create a graduation.
From the positivity, I will note the brilliance – this is not in the oil scale. Very bright colors and immediately my paintings revived.
I love the warm range of tones.
But I also love black and white colors.
And then I just relaxed.
Acrylic paints are very bright, rich, rich in shades.
By mixing them, very interesting drawings are obtained.
And it is very convenient to work, and most importantly, they are odorless, which makes it possible to work on large canvases and in closed rooms.
What happened with me? I created two paintings that were shown at the auction in October-November 2021 in Canada.
Now I finished work with two more paitings.
I publish one of them today.
This is a painting with a size of 8x10x0.6

The painting was made on canvas.
The material used for the painting is acrylic,PLAKA paint silver,ink.PLAKA very nicely created the silver lines of contrast in the picture and I used them in the feathering.
I liked the red lines that came out when mixed. I shaded them and deepened them with contrasting paints. I got waves and indentations.
just look at how amazing it turned out
game of colors. Game of juicy bright colors.
Very impressive.
rich polytric, layered pattern structure, corrugation, heterogeneity.
It turned out very nicely.
I took several photos from different positions to show the depth of the picture.
I am finishing the second one.
They look together and separately.
Later I will publish the second work.
If you liked the work, write your impressions in the comments under this post.
Share your feedback with me and write, do you like modern painting and the work of artists using the acrylic technique?
HOT (2019) painting for sale
It’s time to go through all my paintings and put them up for sale
I have several works exhibited in a prestigious online gallery in France.
I ask you to watch it and rate it
https://helen-polishuk.artmajeur.com/
Today I am putting up for sale a painting called HOT
This is a painting of 2019.
How quickly time has flown by and the hour has come to create something new and travel around the world to present in galleries
This painting has been featured several times in art galleries in Toronto.
There are several days in the summer in Toronto when the color of the sky and cities merge into a bright red, when the temperature rises above 35 and when the air turns fiery.
Then the lake turns into stone bound water, resisting evaporation
And only under cover of night comes the long-awaited coolness
Materials used oil paint on canvas
Size of painting 14″ x 10″ x 0.8 ” ready for hang
Varnish is covered for painting protection
This painting is for sale.
Worldwide shipping by Canadian Post with trucking
You can buy it both through my website using PayPal or on the website
https://helen-polishuk.artmajeur.com/
This work also has a peculiarity, it is sent by the author to the buyer with a Certificate Authenticity
This purchase is a great gift for New Years, Christmas and just a home decoration.
And for collectors it is a good price and a new painting from artist.
The price is really hot and discounted.
Feel free to ask questions if you have any in comments under this post or by email or on Artmajeur website
And you should know – I always do everything for you so that you love art
Helen
November 20,2021
Toronto
Renewal
Is it possible today speak with you,my readers, without pictures and photos?
Talk to you directly.
First,I wish you health. It is very important .Hope you well.
I want to read your comments, it is important for me to hear you, my readers.
So that I could communicate with you.
Some from you ask why site was closed? I do not know so much about the problem of the Internet, but there was a failure . I can only say that I am very glad that that again my site, which I created brick by brick, by years, putting my desires and dreams, that this site is now working again. I just wish that there was some minimal consensus between the companies and sites and the failures were not so significant and thanks to them, my site is alive. I would like to rejoice together with you that you, my readers, are doing all right and well.
It is most important.
What’s my news?
For the first time in two years, we will have a major auction in August, in which I participate … The auction is anonymous and online.
If you are interested, please take a look at www.fb/Helenpolishukart -that my page on fb where I share paintings and info about future auction.
Another news: second part stories about small doggy Mimmi started postproduction time and I hope you will see them this fall.
Also I have great short film in production about our time,our reality .This movie take more time in production becouse its have graphics and special effects.
There are a few more projects that are too early to announce to you, but they are in the works.
I do not respond to advertisements and do not work for companies or private advertisements.
If you have any business proposals, write to me by email helen.polishuk@gmail.com
I will try to answer to every one.
Once again, I am very glad that my site is working again and I can communicate with you.
I am waiting for your letters
Have a great day.
Helen
July 14 ,2021 Toronto
ANGELS (behind the scenes)
I am sharing great news, friends for you.
,,Angels,, won its second award yesterday.
This is an award at the festival in Munich New Wave Short Film Festival and I am proud of it.
The film received an award in the category Religion & Faith .
I thank the jury for evaluating the film and am very proud for this award.
When a film is recognized by the jury, it is the greatest joy for the producer, for the filmmaker.
This is a victory for perseverance and creativity, for the set and completed task, for efforts, for motivation, for overcoming difficulties, for the love of cinema.
I would like to celebrate the victory with you and tell you how the shooting took place and show the frame-process of filming.Behind the scene
I already told you about this amazing film
By the way, you can watch it online
https://thinkshorts.com/6788/angels
The film starred a 3-year-old girl Maya, who received an award in the nomination TINY SUPERSTAR at ROMA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL a month ago.
The girl is really very talented. She remembered text well, behaved perfectly and calmly in front of the camera.
In this video you can see how easy it is for her in front of the camera.This is final shot.Final scene.
There were many interesting moments in the film.
At least the one when the actress was supposed to draw an angel, but did not want to.
I had to give her a ready-made drawing and turn on the TV so that she was relaxed and played herself.
Well, and another interesting moment, for the first time in her life, during the filming , in front of the camera, she took a mobile phone in her hands.
https://youtu.be/1ZQImlznyMM
Before that, her parents did not allow her to play with mobile phone.
During the filming , Maya picked mobile and not only took, but she needed a mobile phone to photograph her drawing.
And the did it !
From the first shot.
For her, it was innovation, discovery and pleasure.
In general, the film was shot easily for me.
Let me remind you, this was my first film.
I have been preparing for its creation for a long time, studied and tried a lot.
Therefore, I am pleased with every victories of this film ANGELS
There is a film screening ahead at the festival and I hope that soon it will be free to go to the festival as a filmmaker after a year and a half.
Went into myself and there is a showdown
,,……Went into myself and there is a showdown…,,
Well, to be precise, I’m in the process of making two films right now, which one will shoot first is hard to say.
Even three-third is the continuation of Mimmy’s Adventures. This is a set of fresh videos for the plot of the next series.
But the first two are future films.
Although, like all real cinematographers, I very much hide the preparation, but I can already reveal some details. So, two scripts are written.
Somewhere they are similar, the theme is historical.
But somewhere they are very different. They touch on different topics.
The scripts, I repeat, are already ready. Now for the final part about the writers, if you think this is where my work ends, it’s a mistake.
This is just the beginning.
Having gone through the difficult path of selection and agreement with the customer, now we need to translate this into a film, and then work with the production and producer.
Waiting for evaluation and correction from the director. Discussion of the nuances – how to shoot it. Not all the possibilities (I have a financial site) are easy to put into the film/what I’m wrote.
And here are the discussion about how to shoot this or that scenes. If I hadn’t worked in the cinema before, I would have been scared. But I am a tough nut to crack and gradually came to what I am doing today.
I am very interested in every stage of making a film. And I love difficulties and overcoming them.
I already wrote that when I had difficulties, I sat down and overcame them.
Therefore, tomorrow, this week, for a month, I am waiting for an agreement with the director of his vision of the film according to my script. Then the calculation of the budget of the film and again a conversation with those or more people about how we will shoot this or that scene.
I emphasize that for this I practiced a lot, trained on short films, honed my practice in making videos, this gives me a vision of the whole construction of the film. This is about the first scenario,first future film.
The second scenario has been created too. It is very good. It is at the stage of organizing financing for it. I, as a,, parent ,,of,, my script,,
, will invest here, possibly part of the time and part of the financing also, since the film is very dear to me.
Of course, I will open an account to financing the film and I will ask you to help or suggest who to work with and who can support the making of the film,who can donate for creation film.
This is the next stage and if it goes well, then our second film will be. Did you think that you would write on a piece of paper and this will all end?
Even in the 18th century, all the best poets and writers whose works have survived to this day, they gathered around patrons who publish their works. Nothing is random and I really like it too.
And the short films ?I love my short films. And over this year, many festivals have loved them.
A distinctive feature of my films is a clear presentation of the theme, a refined script and a lot of modern special effects. Therefore, a movie about Mimmy’s Adventures is on its way.
Will you ask about the Blue Funk one? It will be a very cool movie, and I won’t talk about it today.
So, look forward to the next posts. Follow my news on social networks. (Instagram Facebook YouTube channel Telegram Tweeter)
You will find them on the main page of this website and fill free to connect
And thank you for reading my posts.
How to create three short films in a year and half
Hi, I’m back and this is great news not only for me but also for you.
So, my website has been updated and, as you can see, it has become more thoughtful and interesting
I’ll give you a short tour to my website right away, and I’ll create a video late.
In the meantime, I will briefly tell you about the website. This is a personal site and there you can reed not only the first posts about how I learned English, learned to write blogs,how I drew and tried to sell through the website my paintings,how I shared my thoughts and reflections with you.
Now I released share for you news from the world of cinema on the front pages,in my blog and in my future posts.
Yes, I am a filmmaker, my last third of my life is associated with making films.
my filmmaker’s experience
And here, on this site, I will tell you about the news from my world of cinema. Here you will not only hear an interview with me, watch my films, read publications about me, but you will also discuss with me on the most pressing topics about movies, even share your thoughts .
Together we are strong.
So let’s go.
We stopped in 2020. Yes, it has been an unpredictable year.
Suddenly, we became hostages of our own fears and found ourselves in conditions completely unknown for us.
At point A, where the last post stopped, my first film was still being created and I sat day and night at the editing. How much strength was in me then !!! All the past years, drop by drop, step by step, I went to say one day, tomorrow there will be filming. The script has already been written, the actors have been selected, the shooting scheme has been worked out.
But the insecurity was sat in me.
But I overcame it.
The film was shot. I sweated on editing – I had not created films before. I had to learn a lot of new things – editing, color correction, voice acting. When the film was ready, I found a festival of children’s films in Kiev, wrote to them and prepared to fly to Kiev. But upon arrival, quarantine began, the festival was closed unopening and I was in quarantine for a month and a half. This was my first quarantine.
Of course, since that period there have been changes that have affected not only me, but all the inhabitants of the planet.
Sitting on the bed, closed from communication, I wrote a comedy with inspiration about the situation I was in, about quarantine and an epidemic.
With the increase in quarantine and the addition of my experiences to the script, the comedy turned into a tragicomedy, and the script had to be folded and finished, because I found a way to still return between the quarantines in Toronto, to my family.
With a finished tragicomedy, with Angela’s useless short film, left without work, I flew to Toronto.
And then that second and very interesting stage began, after which everything around me changed. Despite the failures, the second and not the last quarantine, I found funds and create a comedy about a dog. Why? I wanted to paint the tragedy and panic in society. I wrote a comedy script, shot and edited a film about Mimmy.
Mimmi’s Adventures,comedy about small dog.
I sent out both films to festivals through the FilmFreeway platform and my films started touring the festivals. You can watch the trailers of my films at the beginning of the website on the main page.
When the films began to be selected for festivals and receive awards, I realized what the festivals needed and created the dream of every American to make a film about fear. Horror.
I created Fear.
You will find a trailer for it on the main page too. Please write to me, you see the picture, the image of the video or it is not of high quality to you.
It is important for me to show you quality
So one and a half years passed unnoticed.
And here I am again with you in point B (not at the end)page
Helen Polishuk
Toronto
May 2021
ANGELS
I didn’t close my site as planned.
I stay here until 2020 ends with its curiosities
This short film is about the support of Ukraine and the warmth of family ties between Ukraine, Latvia and Canada.
This is the debut of a small but strong team and Astra Production Center
In general, the first pancake flew out. And it is called ,, Angels ,,
I presented the film at many festivals in 2020.
I admit I was delighted to receive the awards for him.
Little 3-year-old Maya played her role perfectly. She calmly kept herself in the frame, posed, read her text well.
And we can already say with confidence that both girls in the future, if they continue their career as actresses, will be successful.
Now the film runs through the festivals, as it should be with.
Today I was officially invited to New York Istanbul Short Film Festivale by a letter from the organizers of the festival.
I hold my fists, I want to get a prize, because it is worth the awards.
Here is a link to my Instagram, where by subscribing, you can follow all my news about me in the world of cinema and art.
Facebook this time not active by my opinion
There is a difficult period in the world, many productions have stopped, but I have launched the second film MIMMIS ADVENTURES
New short film being prepared for the release.
I have already written about her and will write further.
Post quarantine
What I feel when I open my site after six months of quarantine to write a post?
Zeroed
This is the name of my new work, which I share with you
After spring 2020 with quarantine?with disrtoy in futures plane,we will not be able to live as before.
As the main thing, we are motivated by caring for the family, the observance of today and the recognition that everything must be treated with distrust
What’s new in my angels paintings?
I express not transparency, hopelessness, anxiety
This is the background of ourselves, me too.
If the previous pictures are interesting, you can find them on the fb page : https://www.facebook.com/helenpolishukart
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I am pleased to receive your feedback from you in,,COMMENTS,,
I always read all the reviews
Now there is a lot of work to be done, about 5 thousand of them have accumulated together with bots…and its waiting for read
Really looking forward to hearing from you comments and stories, how are you doing
New 2020 Year Eve
The past year has been unique in events and discoveries.
In it, I established myself as a scriptwriter.In it,I created 3 screens and continue work an last one.
I photographed and shooted movies and now my short film with my granddaughters as
discover new abilities in yourself, work creatively, do only what you love