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How to describe the period from February 13 to 18, 2025. Toronto. Canada?
In a word – it continues.
There is little joy in the city from the snow, everything is buried in solid snowdrifts. Even cars did not rise to shovel them on Sunday. If the weather spoils us and more snow falls this week, then even a very active snow digger will give up from the impossibility of clearing the paths. On the night from Sunday to Monday, some crazy guys decided to drive along an uncleaned street. It all ended with one in a pickup truck flying up a mountain of snow across the road, breaking all the cables and scattering parts of the car. Removing it was also problematic, since it is difficult for cars to leave and arrive at the location. And at that moment I noticed that the cars were driving carefully along the open lane. And not one, not one stopped to help remove the moron from the hill!
We must understand the harsh, specific character of our inhabitants.

Then a gusty wind blew and a small plane at the airport landed on the roof, flipping over and breaking its wings. How can they allow landings in such weather? And perhaps this is not the best time for flights.
But today the sun is shining blindingly, cold, provocative. We fed the sparrows that spend the winter in our trees. The birds pounced on the food, not even waiting for us to move away. They already trust us. Weather-tested))

I am disabled in one eye, I am trying to pull myself out of idleness and painted.
All the critics around me, discussing my work, say that I am great at landscapes. Winter ones, for example.
So I am trying.
I want to sweeten my condition with something.
I am giving you a new work – Winter landscape
You will see from it how much I miss painting with oil paints.
Still, oil cannot be replaced by acrylic. And in the summer, when there is an opportunity to paint with oil paints in the open air, I will return to my favorite technique.
In the meantime, for you – winter landscape

Size:7 ”x5

Acrylic on canvas

Feb 2025

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.

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Continuation

Working with acrylic. What’s new