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I want to thank everyone who is interested and reading this post now.

Thank you, friends, for being there.
This year there were many interesting events related to my artistic activities.
I didn’t always have time to report this, and sometimes I was deliberately silent, because I don’t like to discuss , but the year is ending and I’m pleased to resume.

At the beginning of the year, a jury selected my work to make a banner in the city of Pickering near Toronto and now my composition adorns the main street of the city.
When I created the banner, I used a composition of the wave or element symbol, which is inherent in the image used in the First Nation in combination with the popular Petrykivka style, Ukrainian traditional style.

I am very pleased with this decision in the style of color. Since the element of water is blue and the city of Pickering is located on Lake Ontario. The flowers depicted on the banner speak of an earthly image.
Below is the banner Water Element’s image:

Later, in the summer, I returned to this image and, creating a collection in the Petrykivka style, I depicted this composition on wood again.

Autumn gave me my dream and I flew out of media life for a month and took up icon painting. While teaching lessons, I not only had students, but I myself went through and updated my knowledge. This is how my icons appeared.

A huge incentive for me was the result of the jury, which selected my two works in Petrykivka style for the exhibition Roots, which will open in January 2024 in Toronto.

When I sit down to create a painting, I first of all study my previous works. So, this beautiful painting was created, which is dedicated to my beloved Lvov

And absolutely new two large decorative paintings.These are memories of summer, sun, warmth and flowers, happiness and love. Large butterfly on canvas, made in a mix techniques and creating an extraordinary atmosphere of freshness and joy.

I would like to wish you, my readers, a good next year, health and prosperity to you and your families.

Merry Christmas!

Coming to the end 2018……
I do not like to sum up, but I’ll tell you about the past without sadness….
Sometimes you want to quickly close the past.
I still have this feeling today…very difficult year for me….many things still in past now…
I worked hard last year.
Almost did not rest and was taken for everything: for the difficult, for the easy…
My conclusion:amazing everything worked out
It’s nice…..
And now I just want to close it.
A year did a lot of surprises to me. From the last surprise I came out with a loss. I got sick. Seriously enough, and unexpectedly.
Always an optimist, I gave up. I almost got into health problems.
The reason is fatigue and a lot of stress in Ukraine.
I do not even want to remember everything.
Therefore, I think the year is over
here I publish a set of my photos, which symbolize some impressions about the past year.
All photos are from my archive and my collection.

Under each of the photos are my small comments

It is necessary to notice both arrivals in Kiev, I found a difficult, snowy and cold winter

Depresses that everything is in desolation and does not tidy up. People jump on the ice and a pile of garbage. Magnificent Kiev cocked in the garbage on the ice.

I traveled a lot in Ukraine and spent time on trains.

I watched my health, I lost weight….

I visited the auto show, where I liked both the collectors of cars that invited to ride, and the cars themselves. Most of all I liked this particular machine(blue color and model)

I walked a lot on foot, but unfortunately it did not help when pressure jumped.
Thank you for giving me this wonderful watch that helped me to measure the kilometer walk

I spent a wonderful time in the Carpathians, where I rested and gathered mushrooms.

As always, I am sexy. This is a small reminder of my personality.

I visited my beloved Lviv and around this theater I bought myself a present, ate a delicious cake and drank wonderful coffee…..

I lived on the 17th floor and every evening and evening I looked at Kiev from the height of birds. Every day I photographed Kiev. The city was either sleepy, busy and cozy.
I stood at the huge panoramic window and drank coffee, looking down on the city and far ahead, on the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra….

I was all …. I liked to be lonely. In this I saw myself……

I lived in my apartment when a huge house was cut off from heating, water and electricity due to corruption and welding. The month there was no heating for which a huge amount of money was paid in advance.
Country of disaster.
I am very sorry that the people who rule it turned it into a country of disaster.

I survived … this was a month ago. November 2018
Then it was -10 outside, it was snowing.
In the big house where 2 thousand inhabitants lived there were both old men and children.

I made beautiful hairstyles in the salon.

I met a wonderful photographer Alexander Krivitskiy and now have a lot of beauty photos.

Thank you ……year 2018 ………and farewell!

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The ending of the year

The end of 2018