With flowers you can say anything…
it was a windy winter day. Here I used only three colors: yellow ochre, burnt sienna, french ultramarine. I left white highlights of unpainted paper to help create the effect of reflections of sky.
In this painting I combine residential and official parts of the town. You can see beautiful peaked roofs and bay windows of Victorian style on front and iconic landmarks of the official DC in the back. The dark sky and alarmed birds create the emotion of a living town.
I lived in the Dupont Circle aria. I love it’s grandiose Victorian-style row houses! I called them “gingerbread houses”. Buildings have a steep roof with large dormers, an asymmetrical front façade. Every house has its own shade.I decided to harmonize them with two opposite colors: green and red.
I have a personal, lyrical relationship with the city. In this sketch of an ordinary Washington Street scene, the memories of my youth come alive.
Living on 13th Street, I often walked along it and reached Logan Circle, where General Logan sits on a horse. Most of the houses were rented out, and many different young people lived in them. In the evening, there was a light in every window, which I show leaving the white paper untouched.
Claude Monet! His wonderful harmonious garden like a palette ready to work.
DuPont Circle is wonderful! Houses look like gingerbread . In spring they are surrounded by pink airy cherry blossoms. Magical! Round or polygonal front corner tower with a conical roof is a distinctive Queen Anne feature on many buildings of this style.
On the third night Ivan-Tsarevich went to the garden to keep watch and sat under the same apple-tree; he sat for an hour, another and a third - suddenly the whole garden was illuminated as if it were illuminated by many lights: a fire-bird flew in, sat on the apple-tree and began to pluck apples.
The multi-colored shades of Magi and horses seem to reflect the uncreated light.
Guess which is which? :)
