Mid-March

I am very glad to get a few minutes again and write little, share with you my news.
I am now in a state where all kinds of my creative activities are involved. Here is the creation of video films and the script for a future film, and the editing of an already created film and coordination, and planning the next step in community service and new acquaintances, and preparing for voting for an Oscar 2023 and….hmm…. There will be heavy snow tomorrow, another one in March.How much more?
That’s all?
No, I still regularly do household chores, from which no woman will run away.
And I’m getting ready for a big concert, which will be at the end of May. That’s all for now. Secret. I’ll tell you the rest as the month approaches.
But for now the main thing for you.

The last work, which has already been sent to the competition, SHEVCHENKO UNITES NATIONS ,,.
Today, March 9, is the birthday that every Ukrainian knows. This is the birthday of Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko.
An outstanding poet, writer, bart and artist. His name has remained in the culture of Ukraine as one of the most prominent cultural figures, whose works give us strength and teach entire generations of Ukrainians.
Today he is known and respected not only in Ukraine, he is taught, his works are read by all the people of the planet.
For you, the performance of Mominul Hoque, the Ukrainian Cossack Sirius from Cherkasy.

What is relevant in Kiev in the autumn of 2018

If I want to see the work of other artists, to understand the style of today’s art, to get acquainted from the work of other people or to understand what is now relevant, always go to the gallery.
Since I am now in Kiev, for me the most interesting exhibition is in the Pinchuk Art Gallery.
For more than ten years, his collection is always interesting.
I enjoyed visiting the exhibition in November 2018.

Today’s exhibition is dedicated about woman:
,,Woman and ex-USSR.,,
,,Woman and socialism.,,
,,Creativity of women in post-socialism.,,
,,What happened to a woman in the USSR,,

Strange choice. Strange, dirty, tangled thoughts,  shows naked women.
Statue of women chained in concrete (monumentalism)
In short, art is on the verge of burning out.
Three floors with different rooms. In one hall, the author from the European Union collects water from the Dnieper, makes a block of ice, drains it into a tank and pours it into the Dnieper. He fights for the purity of nature.
And in other halls there is a struggle around a woman, so I will call everything that I saw.
In fact, scary.
In socialism, everything that was created by Eastern society suffered for so long.
Erasing the line between a man and a woman.
And the show wants to show both crap and results. Both are very sad.
The fact that women’s rights are violated ….is….. yes.
And the fact that it is too late to realize that, the whole world has changed….it… is.

So,my conclusions:there is art and artists react to what happened to them.

Folk art is gathered in one room.

What is relevant in Kiev in the autumn of 2018

It is  creativity of not professional female artists. There are primitive paintings,but they are bright.

I have  heard about the curtains, embroidered in the style of the Kama Sutra, about sex. But I saw them for the first time

 

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The next exhibit — it seems to me, is an angel wing.
But prayer is on him.
Maybe it  is map of  country.
It’s like a picture made from a piece of wood.

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Back to the murals on the walls:

 

 

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Paintings in style resembling painted walls in thatched houses. Often it was painted by women to decorate their houses and decorate them.

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Exhibited by one painting of famous folklore artists Maria Priymachenko

 

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and Katerina Belokur

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Both women create to decorate  walls with animals and flowers.
And payment for creativity, they were whole life lonely.

 

This is a difficult legacy of our time – a woman and loneliness. A high percentage of women in the country live by themselves, alone. Many divorces. Many raise children themselves. It is very difficult in our time. Very difficult.
Therefore, probably, I was interested in the posters of the builders of socialism.
Motivation simply destroys the authenticity of women. And the goal is aimed right at the heart, let’s drop everything, go work, go build, go help.
Fearfully

 

Each of these posters symbolizes a woman, as a country, as a motherland, as a mother:

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But there were very few in really.

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Women- go to work in collective farms….and they went, worked very hard.

 

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Woman- help rebuild the country.

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Women -workers of the USSR.

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This is a very interesting poster – a woman if she becomes in government  , she will help the growth of culture

 

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Through DD societies destroy orphanage and homelessness.

 

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Gymnasts and gymnasts is the pride of our country.
This poster is still relevant.

 

This is the subject of today’s block.
I didn’t take a lot of photos.
I  watched a very difficult movie. I watched it completely.
Movie was shot in the 1990s and I did not agree with the main idea of the film . So that the author understand what happens with Ukraine. Tied up with ropes, a naked, torn, raped woman.
But this is the judgment of the author.
I take a more conservative position in such decisions.
I change everything with love.

 

 


That’s all for today.

Helen

 

If you want to have a good rest in Ukraine

if you- want to have a good rest in Ukraine

For a trip to Ukraine you need to prepare.
This is an interesting country, there are many places in it where you can have a good rest.
I will tell you today about such places.
My path this summer lay by an amazing city on the Black Sea coast.
Odessa
This is an unforgettable place on the map of a beautiful country.
 It is a port. A city where there is always a mixture of languages ​​and a lot of guests.
In the summer there is good time for rest.Odessans say that everything is very expensive .But if take   one-bedroom apartment on the right site of Odessa (Fountain Road) or cottage it is good choice.That is  price startingfrom 450griven to day.Have cheaper options when you come two families and take two-room apartment.
Transport is not expensive. You can live and not quite near the sea, then the prices for housing will be cheaper.
If you eat in restaurants, they are many options..Very popular bakery, where there is always fresh pastries, coffee. Economy offer, you can buy food in ,,Silpo,, and heated in the microwave.
There are a lot of fruits and vegetables in the bazaars.
Prices are different, but by the evening as a rule sales and berries go for half the price.
I do not advise a fish .There is not medical control and I didnot recomend.You can test lot of  beer with dry fish or shrimp from the store (by weight, cooked and frozen).
From drinks a variety of beer, wine, cognac and vodka.Price is different,but I advise middle,becouse cheaper can be fake.

if you want to- have a good rest in Ukraine

There are many beaches in Odessa .Popular and very clean, city’s beaches.
Therefore, you should not overpay and rest in expensive places. Now there are very few people there.

Odessa is interesting by people.…..
And evening walks
In the city there are many parks. Many flowering villages, many flowers.
Very nice and cozy

But around the station is not very good. Even a bit dangerous. Therefore, it is not worth buying anything or living there.

My advice for visitors is not to use a taxi, but by shuttle bus or streetcar.It is quite enough to travel.

In the evening walk on Deribasovskaya and sit in an open cafe and drink coffee or beer, it’s great.

 

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The next interesting place is Cherkassy.
I came there on a minibus. It’s not cheap. But the trip is worth it.
The city is old. The houses is beautiful, ancient, the center has been restored to yellow-white color.
The city is located on the site of the Dnieper, the hunger for the dam. Very beautiful.
Residents of the city on weekends rest on the islands, which are many around the city. Therefore, there are areas of the city that are called the Ukrainian Shanghai.
Stay there on boats and at home stand on piles on the water.People catch fish, rest, go for a drive on boats.

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I had a wonderful weekend with friends in this wonderful city.

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I was accompanied by this little beautiful and fluffy Michelle

 

if you want to have a good rest in Ukrain-e

The prices for rent here are very cheap and the products are much cheaper from Odessa and Kiev

 

April’s Petrykivka.Part two

Most recently, I wrote a post about getting started in Petrykivsky style.
Today I publish to you the completed work.

April's Petrykivka-Part two

 

This is a photo of a completed work.
April Petrykivka is over.
I was fortunate through an all-powerful facebook to consult a talented artist from Ukraine HALYNA NAZARENKO

When I drew a painting, I asked her for advice. She advised me to put the flowers together in a wreath.
I made it.

Of course this is happiness when you draw Petrykivka.
Extraordinary impressions.
I just say one word-charm))
When you create a composition, you draw shapes, you sketch outlines with a pencil, you do not see the whole painting as a whole.
Then you color it in a tone. Then you amplify that tone. The color often wilts and you have to repeat it again.
It turns out multilayered oil paint.
I know that many people paint with acrylic or gouache on paper.
I paint with oil. This is my underscore.
After the first sketch of the picture, you give it a rest. The paints settle down and in the second time you draw an ornament.
When everything is already done, you shape the shapes of leaves and flowers.
Again you give shadows and backgrounds to the painting.
At the  end, you repeat everything anew with a hardly visible dark warm tone to match the color.
Again you let it dry week.
And then the most important time begins for me. When I highlight the individual parts of the flower or leaf. The most unique thing is that the main thing here is the movement of the brush. From the center to the periphery or from the periphery to the center.

Here I made a small video of the finished work and show it to you

 

Where you can hang such a picture?
You ask yourself a question.
,,Everywhere ,,-is my answer.
This painting is harmonious both in the bedroom and in the hallway.
It can be hung in the salon and in the kitchen.
It is compatible both in a large hall and in a small cafe.
It simply needs to either increase in size or reduce.

April's Petrykivka Part two

 

Such a pattern can be decorated and clothes and utensils.
In recent years, such an ornament is very popular in everyday life.
I just remind you

Size:11”x 14”

Medium:oil on canvas

Available for purchase

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