Original artwork description:

Winter sketch in watercolors for the interior "Winter in Khotkovo" painted from life in the city of Khotkovo near Moscow, not far from Sergiev Posad, where I studied for 5 years as an icon painter. One fine winter day, my friend, an icon painter, and I decided to go plein air to the city of Khotkovo.

Before that, I didn’t have much experience in drawing from life in winter, so the process of drawing was quite a big way out of my comfort zone, because it was not only us but also watercolors with water that froze, so I had to work quickly.

The work was painting by professional Italian watercolors Maimeri Blu on 100% cotton watercolor paper 300 g/m2, which guarantees the durability of the preservation of the work under proper storage conditions, decorated under glass.

Also on my page you can see other original paintings painted from life during my plein air travels in Italy, India, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey. And also see my paintings with flowers and still lifes painted from nature.

All the funds raised from the sale of my paintings are used to make my dream of a mobile workshop based on a minibus come true. Now I travel the world on a bicycle, it is very exciting, but for greater productivity I need a minibus in which I will live, travel and paint.

Materials used:

Watercolor

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