Psychodelic elks- психоделические лосики

Psychodelic elks are painted by myself with acrilic paint and varnished with acrilic water-based lackuer. Actually wooden bases have antlers, so they`re male-toys, but one of animals is painted in pink hues to make him a girl :)) 

Drawings placed on the background are drawn by Finnish graphical artist Inari Krohn.
Pappa- deer is not for sale:)

Cost: 1 elk- 9,5 $

Психоделические лоси покрашены вручную акриловыми красками и лакирован акриловым лаком на водной основе. Деревянные основы имею рога, так что это, по сути, два мальчика О:) Чтобы одного из них сделать девочкой, я его покрасила в розовые тона)

Рисунки, расположенные на фоне- это работы финской художницы Инари Крон.

папа-олень- не для продажи:)

Цена: 1 лось- 300 р

Box for spices\ seeds- коробочка для специй\семян

This decoupaged shabby-chic box is made for kitchen or  summerhouse. You can store here packs with spices, bottles with sauses, oil, as well as seeds and other goods needed on your country site:)
Box is painted with acrilic paint and varnished with acrilic water-based lackuer.

Cost: 22 $

Эта коробочка в стиле шэбби-шик сделана для использования на кухне или на даче. В ней могут храниться как специи, соусы, масла, так и семена и другие дачные радости:)
Коробка покрашена акриловой краской и лакирована акриловым лаком на водной основе.

Цена: 700 руб

Scientific illustration

The drawing was made as an commission which i`ve recieved from Finnish scientist Markus Rantala- for his thesis book. 
The title is: the evolutionary psychology of beauty. Markus` homepage you might see here.

 Some sketches =>>

Decoupaged box for drawing tools

Box for my drawing tools is ready :) 

Have been decorating (decoupaging) it for more than 2 weeks. But it was not because of my slowliness or laziness. I just couldn`t find best-fitting pictures and this tiny hanging leather thing with bead :))

On the top of the box is the coat of arms belonging to Northern Ireland, and there`re drawn two my favourite animals- Stag and Lion. 

On both sides there are placed black-and-white crowns, which are supporting the same crown shown on the coat of arms. 

My drawings are in semifinals:)

Both my drawings for contests have reached the semifinals:)

1. the Lord of the Dance (previous article about it)

Actually i (or better to say my `fresh eyes`) see some imperfections in composition and filling with details- yes, already i`m not satisfied with the drawing. But anyway i`m pleased that this work is placed now in `the gallery of best works`

http://citycelebrity.ru//citycelebrity/Post.aspx?PostId=62864

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151861882294546.1073741826.161749069545&type=3

http://vk.com/album-4921329_172616582

2. Contest in the name of A. Chekhov (previous article about it)

Here drawing has also reached semifinal. There`s only one `but`- if you want to know who are winners, you need to come in Summer to Croatia and spent there 4-5 days on Fest before Ceremony of announcing of winners. Or just come to Ceremony only. Anyway you need to travel there :`) Or stay home and get left without prize (or just good spending of time on Fest :D)

Art-contest with topic `Irish culture and dances`

Actually i`ve discovered this contest 1-2 days ago, but the deadline is today. So during these days my head was stuffed with thoughts, ideas what to draw. Thanks to my Irish friend, an idea has finally come in time and got polished to the end :) 

Contest is dedicated to event- in Moskow comes back the dancing show `The Lord of the Dance` with Irish dances. Site announced art-competition with task `to make design, illustration or make a photo which is connected with Irish culture or dances. If you choose dances you can make a work not connected with Ireland` (to be honest, this last position confused me...)  

Drawing is made with black liners, Promarkers, black marker and acrilic paints.

Celtic ornament, celtic crosses (very small though...), round tower, village crossroad dances, national green color- aren`t these are the things which assotiated with Irish culture? 

I even made there a Stalin dancing... accidentally, of course :D

And.... some weird sketches 

Competition in the name of Anton Chekhov

I`ve decided to particepate in contest which is helded in the name of famous Russian writer Anton Chekhov

 This competition generally consists of Writing-, Literature -nominations, but one of them is `Illustration`. So I`ve grabbed opportunity to make couple of drawings based on story `A man in a case` (in the end I`ve discovered that there is only one art needed)

After 15.01.13 it will be clear if my work taken into the next part of competition~
Materials: black liners, promarkers and watercolors.

And this is the extra illustration

Please, leave in comments your opinion and impressions about my works! It is needed for any development :) You can write here even as Anonimous if you think I`ll get upset or angry with your words:)).

Little update: sketches on this topic