"Muskoka"

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Medium: Watercolours

Size: 45 cm x 58 cm

Before painting this little scene in Muskoka, I made a couple of charcoal sketches. Later, in my studio, I used them for one more study in paint. After finishing that sketch, I was ready to paint an original painting. While painting, I was consciencous of light; I used empty space to convey sunlight and perspective. I am very happy with what I did with this painting because the overall effects, composition and colours are just so complementary and vibrant that without them "Muskoka" would not be so charming.

"Red Propelers"

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Medium: Watercolor
Size: 50 cm x 70 cm

These are flowers that I just can't remeber; I'm an artist not a botanician. But they remind me of propelers; so that is why I named them "Red Propelers". Once again, I concentrate on their size and position to reveal something of supernatural character in them. Fast flowing skies, intercepted with burning light further adds sacredness, not to mention intensity and movement, to the flowers. "Red Propelers" is perhaps more effective in suggesting sublimity than Sunflowers, a painting that triggered my interest in romantic composition of flowers.

"Open for Life"

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Medium: Watercolour
Size: 45 cm x 58 cm

If only people were so open and transperent. Unfortunately, it is something people don't always know how to do. But this is exactly what individuals have learn from nature and flowers in particular. "Open for life" invites viewer inside its cup and entertains him with redish tones. These tones are less stark than Red Propelers but they carry the lightheadines and transperency that previous painting does not.

"Klondike: Gold Rush"

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Medium: watercolors
Size: 60 cm x 75 cm

"Klondike: Gold Rush" is meticulously painted watercolors. It's aim is to show the loneliness that nature has to offer to people, who are willing to throw everything behind them, in order to strike rich. I used empty or white space to show that loneliness. But on the other hand, "Klondike: Gold Rush" also reveals how tranquil nature can be, how calm it can get. So, in a sense, I find this watercolors very therapeutic and soothing.

"Musical Interval"

$ 700
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 65 cm x 85 cm

Musical Interval is a pictorial presentation of music, inspired by the fast and melodic sounds which often accompany Ukrainian folk dances, in particular, Hopak*. But there is nothing common about this painting, as it does not contain any of the traditional or ethnic symbolism. The connection, however, is made purely on a spiritual level and it becomes more vivid when one listens to the music composed for the Hopak. The painting itself is a bridge between new and old worlds; it is a testament to how modern style and its influence on life can accentuate and reveal often forgotten traditional and cultural ways. Similar ideas I further explore in the painting called, Banduras in Paris.

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Hopak - an original Ukrainian folk dance of an improvised nature, where musical beat is 2/4.

"Cover Page"

This is my first ever design of the cover page for a book. Author of this book, who fought against the Nazi Germany and the Soviet occupants in WWII, had asked me to design a cover page that would reflect activities of his early life, which he had recorded in this book. The name of the author is Mykola Karpiy and he had written his memoirs in Ukrainian. Hence, all titles are in Ukrainian, too. Cover shows compass needle pointing to the east, where Mykola had been recruiting fighters to fight Nazis, Polish collaborators and Bolsheviks. I have used lines and images that are native to Ukraine and date all the way back to the Trypylian Culture (Bronze Age) to depict that needle. Overall, I think it captures action and eagerness that one associates with war well. Mykola Karpiy is very happy with the cover.

"Banduras in Paris"

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Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 90 cm x 60 cm

Just like the Musical Interval, this painting, Banduras* in Paris, explores a theme of music and movement in combination with modernity and tradition. The aim of this painting is to embrace the Old and the New in an original fashion that belongs to the 21st Centuary.
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Bandura, also know as kobza, is a unique Ukrainian folk instrument of which there are no anologous instruments in the world.

"Ralf"

Irish Setter (Ralf) - Impression
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Medium: Oil on Panel
Size: 40 cm x 58 cm

This is by far one of my favorite paintings. In best traditions of impressionism, it vividly captures light, color and various tones.
This painting had been painted outside, in front of a playing dog. After observing him for hours, I used a pre-made palette to quickly paint the fleeting effects of light. Bold brush work and alternating light effects successfully capture the happy nature of a dog.

Memory, Respect

Flyer/Card


This is a flyer that I have created using Photoshop on the request of the League of Ukrainian Canadians, a Toronto based organization that has used it to promote its exhibit on the abuse of human rights by the Soviet Union in Ukraine. The exhibit took place in the Toronto City Hall Rotunda.

DVD cover

DVD cover

"Nature's Gate"

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Medium: Watercolour
Size: 60 cm x 75 cm

"Nature's Gate" is more of a symbolic name than anything else. After my trip to the north of a country, I witnessed some very inspiring and picturesque scenes that captured my heart forever. Of course I couldn't paint a painting without some mystery, so I decided to paint a cave or something that could act as a gate to the underwater/ground world. Behind the clifs, storm is gathering as clouds come together. Painting seems to suggest that if a piligrim decides not to enter nature's gate, he will experience the turbulence of a storm.

"Weeping Widow"

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Medium: Watercolour
Size: 40cm x 34cm

More flowers are available in archives on the right.

Figure #1

$400
Medium: Oil on Panel
Size: 65 cm x 45 cm

Figure #2

$ 200
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 30 cm x 40 cm

"Dragon Fly"

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Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 80 cm x 90 cm

"Plow in Action"

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Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 45 cm x 90 cm

The Plow in Action is a painting that celebrates the work of plow man. Through sharp colors and stylized plow and additional decorative elements I try to show energy and intensity of his work. To that plow man, who through his work supplied humanity with bread, we own so much. Without him, our current civilization would not be there where it is now.

"Corn"

$ 300
Medium: Watercolors
Size: 45 cm x 55 cm

Corn is another painting from the series of painting on the subject of how plants reveal the supernatural in ordinary things. As in "Sunflowers", colors, shapes and the overall composition of a painting was carefully coordinated to show awe in the corn.

If Only He Knew

If only he knew
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Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 60 cm x 70 cm

"Storm"

Storm
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Medium: Watercolors
Size: 45 cm x 58 cm

The Storm is a painting of pleasure and skill. This painting was a challange to me, as I have discovered that painting waterwaves with watercolor is not an easy task. But painting successfully revealed the rustic nature of hostile environment and sea.

"Still Life with 2 Onions"

Still Life with 2 Onions

$400
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 45 cm x 37 cm

"Sunflowers"

Sunflowers
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Medium: Watercolors
Size: 45 cm x 58 cm

Sunflowers are symbols of light. The flame like petals represent sun rays and their burning bringht coloration enhances effects of fire.
Sunflowers are painted in Romantic style to reveal the supernatural in ordinary things. The angle of a painting that leaves most of it open shows how big and limitless the world really is. Also, light and skies that originate behind the sunflowers suggest a mystic nature of a flower.

"Blues"

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Medium: watercolors
Size: 45 cm x 58 cm

Blues is part of a series of painting painted on the subject of flowers and how they reveal Sublime. Flowers are innocent and weak bodies but their powers in pleasing and soothing human feelings are great. But this painting is meant to disturb as well as shock viewer. Oversized petals and sickening blue should do the trick.

"Bluebells"

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Medium: Watercolors
Size: 45 cm x 58 cm

These bluebells were inspired by Romantic Art. In them, I want to reveal the Sublime that hides in nature. Angles, shapes and colors were hand picked to show mysterious and yet pleasing side of nature.

"Fall"

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Medium: Watercolor
Size: 60 cm x 75 cm