Apple-Pine: February 2013

January-February 2013: Daily Life.

It seems my sketchbook 71 is full of mostly gray sketches - and filled with minute notes on a daily life - a rare occasion when three generations lived, played and worked under the same roof.

Wait - here is some color!

Badger Log: 16 (2013)

The fish is usually sour. It's because it lives in the sea - there is a lot of salt in it.

This is it - my donation to the US Forest Service after my 2012 Voices of the Wilderness South Baranof Wilderness Artist Residency is completed and this is a photo of me holding it just before I sent it off.

My fellow artist in residence - Kaylyn Messer - completed her video interview with me:

Voices of the Wilderness - Interview Nina Khashchina 2012 from Kaylyn Messer on Vimeo.

And I applied for residency with Voices of Wilderness in 2013 :)

Life is good ;)

January Irises

I got a beautiful bouquet and painted it almost every day.

Treasures

I am frantically trying to post everything from 1.5 sketchbooks before my current work because of this strange idea that things should be shown chronologically... well, thinking about it takes too much time - I better get on scanning and posting :)

I took up listening to some videos/interviews while working in the evening and interview with Lisa Congdon was a great inspiration for me.

January 2013: Watching Interview with Lisa Congdon

Badger Log: 15 (2013)

It's Sliding Time!
(ice or floor)

January 2013: Sport Notes

Kids are quick but fortunately work on the same movement several times. I try to draw parents-observers too - thanks to the large mirror wall in this studio.