February 2022

It was the end of February 2022. The month was coming to an end. I rustled several robots in a row: selection of films for my project on the topic of thriller, historical film, spy thriller.

I looked at the finalist films of the annual Oscar to analyze the best works, which films are now in privilege, what are the trends of recent years. Over the past few years, I have regularly done such analytical reviews. It helps me a lot and I recommend such trainings to directors and producers who want to understand the world of cinema and see the latest changes.

By the way, I post notes on my Instagram and those who are reading this post now will easily find me on Instagram @astra_production

The weather was getting better and I thought with pleasure about those days when all the barriers would be removed and I would go to a fitness club with my body that had become obese for two years.
The temptation pushed me, I planned the workouts ..

Finally, hands will reach the editing of two films to send to the festival.

I read the news, but did not pay attention to any details or changes.
Night of February 23. I open Facebook, as I browse for the night. One of the actresses from Kyiv writes: It has begun…started….
I didn’t understand what. I looked at the comments under her post, people began to unsubscribe to her that they heard explosions and the sound of sirens over Kiev.
Kyiv? The noise of sirens? Is it really … War?
This is the most incredible thing that could come to mind.
Can not be.
I quickly skimmed through the news bulletin. Yes, martial law.
The Russian army invaded the territory of Ukraine and immediately began to attack and launch rocket attacks on all territory, including Kyiv.
Life.Time.Fat point.No comments.

This is where the new vision,new life starts.
A new world. A new reality, which is difficult to believe in, in which one must live. Get used to? No, the brain refuses to get used to. It is taught to exist in the world, seeks balance, is not capable of destruction and perceives such changes hard

Trembling. The whole body was trembling.
I didn’t sleep that night.
I started writing to friends and acquaintances.
They answered me. I asked them again, hoping that this was a mistake.
No. It turned out to be a reality.
My beloved friends who have always supported me are now in great trouble and danger.
I did not fall asleep until the morning, texting with friends, following the news and watching videos that were published by news channels about the first strikes and destruction in the capital of Ukraine.

after a sleepless night with sleepy eyes, with trembling in my body, I went out into the city in the morning.
Like any person living in another hemisphere, in a completely different world, in a Canadian city of millions, reality cut me.
Two realities – the reality of hell, deaths and refugees, the destruction of cities and the danger of movement in Ukraine.
And children peacefully playing with their parents on the playground, young people hurrying to work, people sitting at the bus stop waiting for the bus.

The world has collapsed and there is no past.
The world is divided into before and after.

February 24,2022

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.

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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.

From the back


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

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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 .

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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,,……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.

 

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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.

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Although, like all real cinematographers, I very much hide the preparation, but I can already reveal some details. So, two scripts are written.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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And thank you for reading my posts.

How to create three short films in a year and half

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Hi, I’m back and this is great news not only for me but also for you.

 

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So, my website has been updated and, as you can see, it has become more thoughtful and interesting

 

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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Together we are strong.

 

So let’s go.

We stopped in 2020. Yes, it has been an unpredictable year.

 

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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.

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But I overcame it.

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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.

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Of course, since that period there have been changes that have affected not only me, but all the inhabitants of the planet.

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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.

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With a finished tragicomedy, with Angela’s useless short film, left without work, I flew to Toronto.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

 

 

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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