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My Dream

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Today is my post of gratitude.
This is for you, my fans and admirers.
This is for all lovers of art in any form.
In my opinion, art is divided into commercial and non-commercial (uncompromising). No matter how rude it may sound, but it is the second that is most valuable. And the first – commercial – is doomed to perish and at some moments to enmity and war.
So here is my gratitude to you, my dear connoisseurs of the beautiful – in music, art, poetry and life.
I thank everyone who fills their life with the beautiful with the first sunny morning light, with relaxation after a hard day at work, with diving into the abyss of relaxation on vacation – thank you.
After all, in essence, life should not be bitter, scary, unhappy.
After all, we, born of screaming and pain, strive all our lives to find happiness, peace and love in it.
Thank you.
I see everything that surrounds us as beautiful.
I try to create everything that is in my hands with love.
And you feel it.
The smile in my eyes will not fade, no matter how time destroys me, no matter how the years take their toll, no matter how old age approaches…
Thank you…
In the world of art, I have risen to the step of the creator. This is the highest step, where I can easily imagine what I need to create and find the time to gather strength and implement what I have conceived.
Thank you.

Today I will present to you my most precious work.

  1. A turning point in my life. I refused to do many things that I had done before. I stopped working in the film industry, retrained as a screenwriter and still did not understand at all what and how to do. I was left without a livelihood, but I really wanted to narrow the field of activity and do only art. This is how Helen Polischuk was created,my production and a new stage of life began. A lot of study, attempts, orientation, skills, experience. During difficulties, I often created paintings and drew. It helped, distracted and I learned to train myself. Now a lot is behind me, my third children’s book is already published, production is working and beautiful pictures are being created both in the Petrekivka style and in various other styles. In 2017, a whole collection of my, I dare say, masterpieces was released. One of them was later exhibited at many exhibitions, had great success, for it I received the title of Best Artist of Ukraine in 2022. I will present this painting to you today.

Tell me, my wonderful colleagues, can you repeat your most chenial paintings?

Understood.
But the copyists can.
They can copy))…that’s their skill. They can also copy Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”, Van Gogh and Rembrandt.

I created this painting in 2017 and called it, “My Dream”
What’s special about it?
Well, I was creating a portrait and, as is typical for me, with humor and novelty, I showed how many thoughts and dreams I have.
Of course, I can’t repeat this anymore.
But someone will try someday))

I’ll go back to the beginning of my post and thank everyone who read it to the end and whom I interested in art even more.
Thank you

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CHANGE

Helen Polishuk
Modern drawing made in the style of Petrykivka painting by Natalia Stasiv-Garko

It may seem that time is unchanged. More than six months have passed since the last publication. During this time, many events have passed that can be packaged in one word – change.
The Chinese, when they want to wish something bad, say that you should live during changes. They make sense because this is the most uncertain time, which slows down any planning, postpones things indefinitely, interferes with meetings and postpones events. But what to do, when this happened to you.
Therefore, I will briefly summarize my post.

I’m sure many people have found themselves in this state.
Today I am only talking about the present tense.
The large collection of wood paintings I created in the traditional Ukrainian style was shown in August and had both positive and negative responses. I may return to the positive ones, but I’ll dwell on the negative ones in more detail.
This is my first time painting on wood. I have not done this before. If we approach the creation of the project technically, then its goal was to create mutually complementary objects that together would create the same composition.

Composition of the drawing, completed in Petrykivka style and presented for teaching drawing techniques in a book about Petrykivka painting

The critics felt that I did not perform the traditional Ukrainian Petrikovsky painting correctly, or to put it differently, in an original way. Well, although these critics do not know how to draw and have a superficial understanding, they decided to consider me a failure.
I am not defending myself and I am not going to argue. But thanks to the first women (Petrikovsky painting is known for the fact that the first women who mastered it were women who painted the walls of their houses) who painted cockerels, birds and flowers in an absolutely free style and decorated their houses with them, we now have a whole galaxy of artists of this style. If you look at the works of each of them, they are very different and they have in common the creation of a composition around several symbols.

One of the founders of Petrykivka painting in Ukraine Maria Prymachenko

Years have passed and this style, thanks to modern graphic programs, has reached absolute perfection. Moreover, many schools and courses have appeared that are ready to teach you this skill for your money.
And yet, based on primary sources, I would advise you to remain tied to the three fundamentals of this painting – creativity, composition around symbols and image technique.

One of the famous paintings created by Maria Primachenko


That’s why I wished and wish today to everyone who is fighting for something, look at the primary sources and add your creativity – you will succeed.

Another painting by Maria Prymachenko, the founder of Petrykivka painting


The most interesting thing in learning any folk painting is mastering the principles.
Although I will now be criticized again, the founders of this type of painting did not interconnect the composition; many objects of the composition were, as it were, separated. If you look at photographs of one of the first creators of this type of painting, you can see how stamping, the creation of separate drawings, which are located one next to the other.

Modern apartment decor in Petrykivka style

Two centuries ago, the goal for artists was to create a drawing that would create coziness in the room, protect it and harmonize with everyday life. Therefore, cheerful roosters and hens, wonderful bright princes with colorful plumage and long multi-colored tails, flowers of unusual shapes and color harmony appeared on the walls.

It was rural folklore, the art of the country people who decorated their homes.
And today, Ukrainian artists have supplemented and improved it and created masterpiece collections of paintings, introducing this type of art into the traditional Ukrainian folk art.
I’ll return to my collection. Drawing on wood requires its own skill. Technically, this is a more long-term work, and I was also required to create compositions on two chests, several kitchen boards, kitchen wooden shelves, souvenir wooden houses, Christmas tree decorations and sections of wood. I also tried painting on bags.

Photo from exhibition where was present my new collection.


I liked the combination of animals with modern elements. I took the cat as a symbol on the bag. That’s why I received criticism.

Another part of the collection among the exhibits on display


I’ll wait until the passion to ruin someone subsides and all this settles down and still, I’ll remain silent.
Someone else criticized that I was too confident in myself.
Friends, no. I hid, broke all my brushes, threw away the paints and am sitting waiting for something else to come to me.
I would like your problems.
Today I have donated several works to auctions and I believe that they will be useful.
Tomorrow is not predictable for me, I will say one thing – only those who do not do and do not create are not mistaken.
And I am again full of news and ideas, which I will tell you about in the next post.
All the best