Artist Ixygon

[Seriy]

This portrait of threw me back into the world top 100 Artmazhera where I was not very long ago.
At 28 th place.
Another reason I do not see, I have long been stationed there was nothing, that's just the portrait.

[Seriy]

I am in San Francisco. I will write, if possible, on local cultural practices and events! Weather usual-degrees, 15 wet.
Stay till the end of March. If someone finds in the Gulf region, I will be glad to acquaintance.
News-border U.S. now put a stamp on the 6 month stay, I did not know. America does not want that you left :-) m e in the U.S. is now possible to live without any bezvylazno emigration.

[Seriy]

In California, I'm pretty much draw, though conditions I have, I live in a hotel. If I lived with friends, too, oil can not write, you must shoot the studio. I write in the street and make new friends in their own terms. I am writing is always on time, which is not enough. Took with him to the streets of pastel lubricant, which has never worked. With butter hands an hour later completely frozen, in San Francisco in February, several scroll hail heat total. Pictures varying degrees of completeness, it's just travel sketches.
1. View of the marsh in Palo Alto is the center of Silicon Valley. Oil, x, 50x40
2. Ibid. Building-old yacht club, a lake drained and the yacht club was in a swamp. In Palo Alto I'm writing together with artists from California Academy of Painters, Jim Smith. Big thanks to him! He gave me an easel, and all that is needed, driving me to the train.
3. Irises. Wrote in a beautiful studio artist Lisa Eshrik Berkeley. x, m, 60x50.
4. Eucalyptus trees in Lafayette Park. Unfinished, his hands completely frozen.
5. Another view of the old yacht club with a different point.
6. Golden Gate Bridge pastel on paper A3.
7. Lafayette Park, pastel, A3.
8. View on Angel Island, pastel, A3
9. Eucalyptus, pastel, A3
10. Trees, pastel, A3.
I also wrote to the Russian artist of the academic school Ina Polnarev at her studio in San Mateo, but Ina has put such a complex still life, that I will still strongly strongly unfinished.

[Peter]

America acts for you horosho.Mozhet stay?

[Seriy]

Peter, I would have stayed, or, say, would have spent some time in the U.S., but the arithmetic of the matter is, the rental plus a studio should be 2,5-3 thousand dollars a month, a pair of thousands on the life and contributions. Total 5 thousand per month. To acclimatize and vstraivaivanie in the art life - 2-3 years. THEOREM 150-200 thousand dollars and you can try :-)
In general, everything is absolutely the same as in Moscow. The difference is a good climate, clean, good situation with the purchase artmaterialov.
And I had not written to plein-air, this is my first experience, and I noticed that if I write very quickly, then it looks better, EM mind control to me-the artist interfere, well, I wrote about it already ...

[Pavel]

Well done!
Work is really better and brighter.
Come on!

[I-V]

Yes, excellent work! The entire collection is integrally looks.

Here not long ago in one of the themes Mr. fabosch talked about the similarities and influences, as the "cultural soup", which only enriches the "soup" ("soup"), an artist, cooking over low heat for individuality. In your works, too, feel the flavor of this "soup", which is completely without interrupting their original taste, makes them very appetizing:

Maurice Prendergast (one thousand eight hundred fifty-eight - 1924) - So that's why - America

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Prendergast (Wikipedia article)

http://www.mauricebrazilprendergast.org/ (Virtual Art Gallery)

[Peter]

Seriy, but what about the demand for paintings by contemporary American artists? They're also renting studios somehow have to pay. "I think many of our artists, it would be humanly interesno.Kak feel our kollegi.Vostrebovany it? What preferences have publiki.Vy because now directly located in the very midst."

[Seriy]

Peter, on such topics, I wrote a little here-
http://artnow.ru/forum/showthread.ph...=7096#lastpost

Now the crisis, the pictures do not buy. The average price of oil in the Gallery 4000, a cooperative gallery of artists, where newcomers, from $ 150
Studio - is a luxury. Those studios that I've seen or constructed (rented) the money is not from painting or paid no income from painting, and learning from students, for example. Willing to learn a lot and pay a good teacher. T e is probably somewhere there are highly paid and successful artists, but I'm not familiar with.
 Many galleries, red dots on the exhibitions, too much, but you know, it could be a marketing ploy.
 What are the preferences? thinking, abstraction, decorative positive things. Very much appreciated sense of humor, invention. Of course, many American huge, but quite a few abstract works of small, up to 40x40. A lot of works on paper, perhaps the paper in the U.S. on an equal footing with oil on canvas. There is paper made from cotton, thick as cardboard. In the store all the paper expensive, a small sheet of drawing paper, from 2-3 dollars, and fat may be more expensive 10 per sheet.

PSPrislali me a couple of photos from the open air in Palo Alto. The day was cold. Visible Yacht Club.

[I-V]

Сообщение от "Seriy

Now the crisis, the pictures do not buy.

Everything is so ...
from a few artist friends (our former) heard the same thing.
And some of them before things went bad - now complete the seams!
they are just in a panic ...



Seriy, vpomnilos when I saw your photo