30.07.2017 Forecast

Today weather forecast on yandex will make you smile. Sunday is everybody suggest to spend on nature or dachas, or somewhere on abandoned places, it's a reminding for me how is changeable summer
Looking for a summer...

yesterday my ambition to repair the printer has failed on a cartridges that doesn't correctly print, i spend day looking for ink and reinstall it but quality of the print very dissapointed me. And i really need to improve smth like a visitors card of Andgopink artist.

Andgopink visitors cards will be a helpful things to start communication whereever i go i'll bring it. If you meet the artist at the streets who make a sketches or a painting you''ll get one from me.

Lately i was trying to find places to make a merch, t-shirts and bags with designers Andgopink slogans.

example " Andgopink ~ 16C still unbearably hot"
I'm absolutely concerned of successful advertising and marketing campaign of Andgopink brand.

We all branded people who needs some new ideas and new brands to be place in a custumer society with bad copywriting and bad media.

My example is absolutly genious and unique.  To me last few days was a kinda weird hot air hear and only conditioner save me from hot flat air.
It's much more fresh air outside flat, but last years moscow isn't interesting to me for a walk tour of a recent shutting down small business.
all small shops i like is closed.

Difficulties, my friends we all have some. That means to a young artists it's almost impossible to sell your artwork at the moment in Russia. People are so much thoughts about food and eating that tooks all their money.
Artworks is for somebody else , for rich people but not for a mass common consumer society. that's a pretty true.
in 90s you can earn something buy selling CD, or some stuff like that on streets markets or cheap things like a cassettes or t-shirt. Today when places like that is closed by municipal laws i got no chance for a street trading.
State and government wants to make people their slaves and it's a country policy that people doesn't have an independence and their own small bussines about to shut down. So i'm no longer want to be a some else servant  and work for other people business. I don't want to manager, or imitate duties at office like 90% of people do.
My choice to became an artist was from research and my likeness and inner emotion to explain the things i see to other people. This is not a commercial project at all. But somehow the reality is playing the role to correct my plans.

i want a bike. Cube Cross for Triatlon

And finally since this week i want to back my triatlon training at least of running few miles 3-4 times a week. Because i feel how much weight i gained and needless eats of sugar and other sweets. So i put my body in sport mode again untill i feel better with a fat level.

Wonderful time near river

In morning it was a bright and clear sky. So it gives me a feeling the whole day will be like that, so i grab my oil instruments, some food and beverages to spend time on my own somewhere far from Leningradsky prospect where i'm situated. 

Strogino

Since1984 till 1993 i was lived on Tallinskaya street and Strogino is very familier place to me, a number of my school mates live there. In teenages we played the grunge band called, "Dead Deskmate" it sounds a bit like Soundgarden and Alice in Chains..

Still the album Jar of Flies is one of my most favourite and we played that sound in 1994-97 i know many musicians of that age and in 1993 was taken part, in Monsters of Rock tour in Tushino,Moskva with Metallica, EST, AC/DC, Pantera and other bands. 

Many of friends today is gone, and some were suicide, first one in 18.. in 1995.
Well, if you were not a fun of Suicidal Tendencies, Faith no More you probably can't understand what i'm talking about.  

Faith no More you probably like this album?














FSo it was a cloudy day.. and i wonder how to bring back a wet panel cause i've anything except skotch  so after a while when i sat on the bank of river and started to paint a man came next to my place with an ambition to swim or get into the water..
Arrrgh, water is still cold and river isn't the cleanest in the Moskva, he simply didn't care at all and get in.
I was chewing my burger and look at him very suspiciously a few moments after ask him ~ how's the water
~"he replayed it's not so warm.." and you should see him standing there with a hands around the body shivering on a wind.

That was certainly the painting in oil.

Here's a second small painting

    

Three copies of Rafael Madonna

Three of Four copies of Rafael in work since May 2017, i don't count numbers of layers,

but it's probably the most hardest work i ever had. It doesn't count my Phd exams in 2001 that i has much more power in twenties. Todays eyes and  attempt to concentrate on the object of my study get harder.

Pokrovskoe streshnevo park

This is awesome park not far from my home was a home of Russians Earls for many years before October revolution, how it looks today you can see on the photos

Park is still looking fine and a good shelter from noisy city and polluted air, a year ago i've done everyday jog for forty minutes. Can't say running is my favourite exercise but as my grandy and me both are runners, he was a running a ten miles every morning while we live outside city.

In park, some few intresting british architectural gothic style privet homes are situated





One of the most mysterious dachas of Moscow. The entrance to it is difficult to access due to a military military facility, it is removed from extraneous by greenery and high fence. At the dacha, according to one of the versions, the clinic of Bulgakov's professor Stravinsky was located.
The dacha of the Moscow merchant and horse-racer Konstantin Franzevich Seeger was built in 1914 according to the project of the famous architect VD Adamovich in the Gothic-Roman taste
English houses of that time.

"The stone house, covered with iron, in two floors, a roof with turrets and iron spiers, externally covered with colored bricks and part of plaster, inside plastered, under the half of the house is a semi-basement .The first and semi-basement floors with concrete ceilings and glued beams ceilings, the second - with Wooden staircase, staircase one oak, the other up to the attic and basement stone, window frames and pine doors are painted, the floors are parquet oak and platy.In the house there is a restructuring, arranged water heating with a boiler and a ventilation chamber in the floor A stone, iron-covered front door, a wine cellar and two terraces, one open, consisting of a perestroika and being occupied by the owner of the "

I draw and paint the park landscape it's so fresh in summertime

Turkey, Side, June 2017

In Side on summer in 2017 hotel prices rather expensive so i've been living in average or common level 3-4* star hotel called Hera, it was in third line from sea coast, only 4min to walk to the sea.

First line hotel Barut Cennet that next to Hera Park was 6or 7 times expansive, Hera is much loyal to people who travelled, it has full board food table. So i don't need to pay extra money eating outside, the things like wine&beer are also free.

This 2017 year i was rather surprise by local prices on beer it's rise up for the same price as European countries. On first day after registration in hotel, and all days i've been enjoy sunbathing and sea swimming.

Sea swimming is one of my favourite sport when it's more 47C degrees outside. the heat waves usually starts at 10 in morning and temperature is high till 6-7 O'clock  in evening. When you or if you're coming from western Europe can be fit to walk or to do something under the sun.


Turkey is much about agricultural country and local trade, I've been in Turkey 4-5 times before, so turkish people are very familiar to me, but not yet language is much common with Uzbek, Tatarian or Eastern asian like Arabic. Many people of eastern russian province can speak Turkish, but for me it sound 2 much Asian.

This is typical market street in Turkey where sellers trying to sell local made stuff to tourists, just you should remember all depends from your own view.

This is East.. Sellers don't have a fix price, they look where are you from and name his own price it could be 10 times higher than in shopping center, all depends from your own talent to offer your own price on a souvenir, or clothes.

Turkish people are not fond of the artists, and there was a talks about paying to smbdy while i paint.

I also admit that drivers in Turkey are  wild uncultural people who stop the car on my way

in this photo car stop accurate behind my tripod and than driver came out and went to the shop for 20 min.

this was a several examples of Turkish manners.




















But if you came from Russia, you had an immunity from maybe worst examples boorishness, or rude behavior, because simply what you can meet in Moscow, you've count a sad incident.
Turkey has low culture yet, because of its Muslim tradition to demolish and destroy ancient and Byzantine architecture goods and sculpture, simply they descendents of Arabs who destroy the high cultural but non violent civilisation.

Turkey wants to join European Union but in order of how they care of their own cultural heritage their true ambition should be to educate themselves from middle east savages  to keepers of ancient Byzantine that was High Develope mother of Roman Empire. 

Side balcon view from hotel

I've coming back from Turkish journey and painting vacation.. Nice twelve days of everyday sea swimming, sunshine and  plein air paintings. All were made plein air in a sunny hot afternoon, when i came back from sunbathing. It usually hard to walk in 50-60C degree and i spent few hours walk and sea where is to hide and paint, but immediately get wet, and out of energy to do smthng, First painting was made in hotel balcony.