Julia's curious art

for little Miss Kushner

2010-01-02T18:33:00.000-08:00

happy birthday!

Seven slightly crazy aunts (again)

2009-12-15T12:54:00.001-08:00

They are back!

Little Red Riding Hood embroidery

2009-12-15T12:41:00.000-08:00

how awesome is this embroidery based on one of my Little Red Riding Hoods?
Skillfully executed by lagidgette - here is her flickr page
Her niece was upset about wolf eating Little Red Riding Hood and her grandma and this embroidery will definitely cheer her up. Wolf and Red are friends!

Festive cardboard town

2009-12-11T09:30:00.000-08:00

Lately I have been slightly obsessed with old European towns, well at least my version of the old European town, case in point - couple of small children fishing on the lake surrounded by a small red-roofed town.

So when my husband showed me some cardboard dividers I immediately new what I can make from them - cardboard town.

Here is how the cardboard dividers look. They are used as a packaging material for mailing and storing small fragile objects. Several of them can be assembled together using long cutouts on the bottom to form a 3D grid. But once disassembled they are ideally suited to make buildings, or even whole blocks of buildings.
Just cut out some windows and fold. I also used some acrylic paints, pencils and ink pen to give my town some additional color.

Here is the final result.

Some detail shots.

As you can see I also added cardboard trees to cover up some awkward spaces between the buildings.

Finally, I added lights behind my little town and voila - little town all decked out for the holidays
right on my fireplace mantle.

Exciting news

2009-09-11T11:24:00.000-07:00

I have three "Little Red Riding Hoods" in "heroines and Harlots" - art exhibition in Da Vinci Art Alliance (704 Catherine street) in Philadelphia. The opening reception is 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday September 12th. There is also the closing reception on September 27th 1-4p.m.
http://www.davinciartalliance.org/

2009-04-02T16:30:00.000-07:00

"Little Red Riding Hood brushing wolf's teeth"
Before the start of the "Is that you, Little Red Riding Hood?" show I decided to randomly choose one of the LRRH suggestions submitted to me, illustrate it and give it to the author. And - this is it! The author can pick it up from the "Sweet Mabel" starting tomorrow evening. Thank you for you wonderful idea!

I have 3 more suggestion for the new adventures of Little Red Riding Hood to illustrate - 2 of them have to do with current economic situation :( I have chose current affairs to be the subject of my drawings, but there is always the first time for anything. I'll try my best.

2009-04-02T12:59:00.000-07:00

Hello dear friends. It is April 2nd and I am still working on illustrating your great ideas for the new adventures of Little Red Riding Hood. Today's suggestion - Little Red Riding Hood, Grandma, and Wolf are at the psychiatrist's office. The person who suggested it thought that one of the psychiatrist might be one of the woodcutters, but I decided he must no other but Sigmund Freud (but check out the drawings on the wall all kind of woodcutting-related images; and here you can see Freud's couch that inspired all the colorful patters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Freud_Sofa.JPG).
Also, check out his notes :)

As a bonus - awesome drawing by my daughter Nina - Little Pink Riding Hood is attacked by the big Red Wolf.

2009-03-29T18:21:00.000-07:00

Little Red Riding Hood goes for a stroll with the wolf on their bicycle built for 2.

2009-03-29T18:00:00.000-07:00

Little Red Riding Hood and Wolf on a swing set.

2009-03-28T07:42:00.000-07:00

Sorry I have not been posting for a while, I have been away on a vacation. But not to worry - everyone's suggestions will be illustrated by the end of March. Today - two Little Red Riding Hoods - with aliens and this one - "car ride with top down (wind too!)."

2009-03-28T07:37:00.000-07:00

Little Red Riding Hood is abducted by alien wolves.

2009-03-23T09:13:00.000-07:00

Little Red Riding Hood decorating a cake.

2009-03-20T13:11:00.000-07:00

Little red Riding Hood and wolf shoe shopping.

On Monday: Little Red Riding Hood and wolf decorating a cake.
Have a good weekend!

2009-03-19T09:20:00.000-07:00

Little Red Riding Hood and wolf singing a duet.

2009-03-18T19:39:00.000-07:00

Little Riding Hood daydreaming in tree about slow dancing with wolf.

2009-03-18T06:24:00.000-07:00

Today's adventure:
Little Red Riding Hood having a bath with the wolf.

2009-03-17T10:53:00.000-07:00

"Little Red Riding Hood staring each other down under the full moon."

2009-03-16T23:08:00.000-07:00

At my exhibition in "Sweet Mabel" I asked everybody who came to submit suggestions for the new adventured of Little Red Riding Hood. First suggestion that I illustrated came from the 7 year old Karli - "Little Red Riding Hood plays hide-n-go seek and freeze tag with the wolf." I had to google what kind of game freeze tag was and maybe I will figure something about it later, but here you can see Litttle Red Riding Hood looking for the Wolf. Do you see him hiding behind a tree? Thank you for a great suggestion, Karli!

Tomorrow: The wolf and Little Red Riding Hood staring each other down under the full Moon.

Illustration Friday: Similar

2008-12-06T12:13:00.000-08:00

Wolf's nightmare (or dream)

Illustration friday: Pretend

2008-11-14T13:29:00.000-08:00

little red riding hood and the wolf

Happy Halloween

2008-10-13T09:42:00.000-07:00

2008-09-04T19:23:00.000-07:00

Illustration Friday: Memories

2008-09-04T07:13:00.000-07:00

Come see this painting in the front window of the "Bike Line" in Ardmore. It is a part of "Miles of Art" organized by the First Friday Main Line. There will be paintings in store fronts along Lancaster Ave from Bryn Mawr to Ardmore. One of my painting is featured on the Main Line First Friday webpage http://www.firstfridaymainline.com/

2008-03-18T19:04:00.000-07:00

Illustration Friday: Heavy

2008-03-06T09:55:00.001-08:00

Illustration Friday: Leap

2008-02-02T21:05:00.000-08:00

2008-02-02T20:07:00.001-08:00

Illustration Friday:Blanket

2007-08-02T14:19:00.001-07:00

Illustration Friday: Moon

2007-07-23T20:10:00.001-07:00

Illustration friday, Poem

2007-07-23T09:40:00.000-07:00

recently I was playing with Adobe Illustrator, so here are the results. These are some illustrations to my informal biography - happy childhood in the USSR.

2007-07-18T14:33:00.001-07:00

Small paintings - "Faces", all of them are 9x12. I painted them in March-April 2007.

2007-07-18T14:21:00.001-07:00

A portrait of Nina in a bird garland. I painted her much older then she really is. It's hard to paint children :(

2007-07-18T13:14:00.000-07:00

I started a new series of paintings called Circus or Cirque. here are the first four.

Ночной свистун (Тимур Шаов) www.shaov.ru

2007-01-22T09:05:00.000-08:00

Свистит, свистит, зараза, под окошком,
Ну нету Любки, что ж ты, тварь, свистишь?
Свежо. Впотьмах свалилась с крыши кошка.
Деревья гнутся да шумит камыш.

А чтой-то ночь зловещая такая,
Блуждают на погосте огоньки.
В такую ночь, обычно, самураи
Канают на границу у реки.

Трубу прорвало, из подвала пахнет гнилью,
Свистит влюбленный третий час подряд.
В такую ночь, чтоб сказку сделать былью,
Был Зимний на «гоп-стоп» братвою взят.

Жужжит в стакане пьяненькая муха,
Я соль рассыпал, – видно, быть беде.
В такую ночь Ван-Гог отрезал ухо,
А Грозный треснул сына по балде.

Пошла муха на базар и купила самовар,
Приходите, черти, я вас пивом угощу!
Черт заглянет на часок, он не низок не высок,
Здравствуй, паранойя, я твой тонкий колосок!

Бурчит с экрана футуролог злобный:
«Увы вам, люди, бьют уже часы!»
Смесь Иоанна, Нострадамуса и Глобы,
Апокалипсисом пугает, сукин сын.

«Падет Звезда Полынь, грядет разруха,
И брат у брата уведет жену,

И Пятачок зарежет Винни Пуха.
Конец эпохи, все пойдем ко дну!»

Вот так живешь, гребешь деньгу лопатой.
Тут трубный зов – и всё коту под хвост.
Мол, Страшный Суд, звоните адвокату,
С вещичками на выход, в полный рост!

А этот все свистит! На гульках твоя Люба.
Убогий жребий брошенных мужчин!
Что он Гекубе, что ему Гекуба?
Пошел бы, лучше, выдавил прыщи.

Баю-баюшки-баю, спать ложися, мать твою!
Хочешь, милый мальчик, я те песенку спою?
Завтра будет день опять, ночью, мальчик, надо спать.

Приходи к нам, Фредди Крюгер, нашу детку покачать!

Печаль светла, но нет императива,
Чего свистишь? Уже написан «Капитал».
Швырять столы в окно, конечно, некрасиво,
Но я швырну так, чтобы наповал.

Луна желтушная измучена циррозом,
Свингует на трубе Архангел Гавриил,
А выше – Бог, терзаемый вопросом:
Какого черта он все это сотворил?

Искажено пространство, место, время,
Бомжей в подъезде примешь за волхвов:
«Шолом-Алейхем, как погода в Вифлееме?
Что нужно вам в стране бессонных свистунов?»

Но с кем вы, мастера ночного свиста?
Какая сила остановит вас?
Пойду голосовать за коммунистов –
При них хоть ночью будет комендантский час.

2006-11-08T12:50:00.000-08:00

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