New Graphic with dark sky symphony

Yesterday sky was dark and blue, with lacerated dark-blue clouds aflared with the wind... I opened all windows on my 21-floor balcony and enjoyed that nature`s symphony.

It was a kind of such feeling turnes us to feel deeper so I started to paint. It was dark and I changed the place to the tea-table and made the new picture. The athmosphere of fire, teapot, tea and painting in ink technigue, and mistery clouds in the sky - everything was the reasons to paint the picture with monk-kamuso. This is Japanese Zen sect of mendicant monks trevels around Japan playing sakuhachi flute. (On the 1-st of septebber I was listening sakuhachi on a concert). A monk-kamuso tipically coveres his face with a basket:

In the middle of my work the picture seemed like that:

As I had finished with ink I felt this is something more in the picture. It was the deep storm sea with waves and wind, and colors of sun behind the clouds, So I deside to continue painting. I will publish the result tomorrow because I have to sleep. As a professor  I have to teach students tomorow early morning. Oh my god, I must go to bed and try to  sleep about 5 hours. It`s a pity because this is my favorite time to paint... :-/

 

My new work: Milky Way-I

I`ve just finished a new one graphics named "Milky Way-I". That time I clearly knew from the first minute what exectly it will be. This is graphic work A4 size (20 x 29 cm) on special paper for aquarel. Made by pencils Derwent, chhinese brush and ink, liners, charkoals and such tools as aqua-brushes. I like that tools and the way I can express my ideas.

And big size:

Later I plan to publish the process of creation so hopes you will be back.

My today art work: Maya (Illusion)

That work I started in Mu-Mu cafe, waiting my friends. It was started from one spiral only and when friends had come I interrupted drawing. But it was something in my mind dreames to be born. So today`s night I finished it.  Small size:

Big size:

Story: That picture I can read as a book. It represents an ancient Indian philosophy term "Illusion Maya". It means the special energy of god used to create for human possibility  of human passions, desires, expectations, selfish plans and events coused by such things. It is the theatre, the stage with actors and play. We want the play interesting and full of passions, and sometimes it capture us and we can live the same life with heroes. But it is the illusion, real illusion, true and bright - Illusion.

If you can have a look under Maya's covering energy you can see deep happiness, light and power of  existance. There, in silence, you can feel God.

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I want to play Indian flute bansuri

Yesterday I saw several series of the great Indian epos "Mahabharata" and suddenly realized that somewhere deeply inside I am still dreaming about a flute. My experience with block-fluite was terrible, it was from plastic and I can`t feel it. Indian flute bansuri is from bamboo and today I have met the master, who make it here in Moscow. One of his bansuri in the picture:

I have found him by his blog http://bambooway-ru.livejournal.com  and found his way of understanding music, musical instruments and Zen right. I have visited his school Zentaku in one of tea houses of Moscow today morning. So I desided to apply for bansuri to him. As he said it needs a time to feel what bamboo matherial will be the best for that kind of flute. I want my bansuri small and dark as at the picture. Hopes I will receive it soon and try to learn it. 

Actually I want to have small musical instrument to carry it with me in adventurres. It will be the great  enjoyment to play flute on the seashore, to feel how music and sea sounds interlaces and how it connectes with moon and trees and my mood too. Hopes our winter - so long, too much long for me! - would be shorted with bansuri. I will try it by intuition and play improvisations. Anyway I listen music inside so it will be great to play it in reaity.

 

My Odisseus Trip (Corfu, 20 of July)

I was extremely lazy at Corfu and so didn`t write several important things. One of them was my crazy swimming on 20 of July. I started from #1 point - it`s Hefira beach. I swam with snorkelling set (mask, flippers, tube).

All trip  took from 11.30 to 17.30.

Point #2 is my favorite rock, so friendly it is that I can`s defy it`s hospitality. I spent hours lying on it`s surface,  listening breath of the sea and heart of the mountings. I`ll write about my spiritual sence later and now only notice - that rock is important and I always come to see it. After who knows what a time I continued my swimming trip.

I`ve seen an octopus here, in Liapades! :)

It was beautiful. Not bigger then 50 cm in diameter (it screw up hands), it was soft and beautiful. Not so bright colors but something like that:

I have meet it in 50 meters from the beach line, not more then 3 m depth. I was surprised how gracefully it is, how elegantly it curl it`s hands and it`s color.

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Drawing a leave of ivy

Corfu is the place ideal suits me. So I could make paintings, sketches, draw everything.

Here it is beautiful nature admires me for the arts. A small objects has it`s own cham and I have a relaxation to draw it.

It is interesting to study the nature so close as I can do here. There is no time for it in my life in the big city so this place turns me to understand new simple things.

So that`s result! I like to draw it and then to understand more and more in nature and both in the art. So during such study I feel better my future projects in paintings etc.

 

 

It`s the first week on Corfu that year

Wow, I am happy in that lovely place. This is my 2 time here and I hope to stay here every summer.

The sea is a bit cold but I adjust for it and swim every day with flippers far away. The best place for me for work and relaxation. Geat-great-great! :) :) :)

Things I can do by own hands: painting on denim, Annamain`s unique clothes design

I prefer denim like no others and spent several years to design several special techniques to pain denim clothes.

Every design looks great and have a deep meaning. That one is from my collection "Power of Gods".

Learn more on my website www.annamain.org

Things I can do by own hands:clothes design, painting on shirts

About 2 years I spent to create and modify the technigue to paint on shirts. My paintings allow shart`s fabric to be flexible and gantle.

That one is from my collection "West spirit".

Learn more on my website www.annamain.org

Things I can do by own hands: Satin Stitch Embroidery

I love it. Satin stitch emboidery in chinese style makes me silent and relax. A like cotton threads more then all.

I created several designes of clothes and wrote several books about satin stitch embroidery. My free course you can download hee http://www.ann-mary.com/freebies.shtml 

This is my satin stitch with viscose threads:

Things I can do by own hands: batik

I know batik technigues and do something like that from time to time. It will be a decoration for interior, hopes i will finish several in nearest future.

 

Things I can do by own hands: crochet and knitting

It was one of the the hardest  education in my life - to learn knitting.  However crotchet crafts was easy and soft. Then I combine all technigues in one design!

You can see a lot of my works on Ravelery  http://www.ravelry.com/projects/ANNAmain , and that winter I did 5 things (currently unfinished because of long sleeves). Wow, I have to finish it before september but lazy. It is cazy even to me to knit wanm sveaters in so hot summer :) :) :) .

Things I can do by own hands: sculptures

This is normal for me to create something and then to forget it because so many ideas clouds around me and inside. Therefore this is a small resume of my arts, crafts and other creative activity.

My first sculpture I did when I was 11-years old, oh - it was the great history with glory and blood! One day I will tell it. Many sculptures I did from sand, plastic matherials, wood, clay... It is interesting and impressive to create in 3D format.

A Color of Clouds

The most beautiful and perfect thing I have ever seen is clouds. This is today sunrise.

The greatest panorama greets from my 21-floor window: infinity of green forests, nearly prominent skyline and very small number of houses. And the clouds spreads over that glory. 

Just choose the color! Pink? It is the blush on the cloud`s tummys when the sun just going to rise. It happens about 5 o`clock in summer and hardly ever seen in winter. This pink as if it lightly violet, and lilac, with slightly inkling to a drowsy mist.

In the daytime the same basic pink color has changed. It has been just impregnating by in-between tints of honey, from slightly yellow to deepest, sweetest shadows. Bright-rose color has been only on the edges of clouds. It`s shadow as if ruddy, mellow apple.

On the surest the pink color of clouds has changed in the third time. Now it is glutted by crimson splashes, filled by bright-orange on their edges.

Who said that fluorescent colors are unfamiliar in the nature? All of that colors are here! You can paint the evening clouds by a simple office highlighter, and the colors will be true. At that time clouds as if they flaming from inside, especially from their back side.

Let`s see to another colors. How about blue? This is the deep-deep sky. The endless deep-blue far away, then it is slightly dashed by light-yellow-green. It`s shadow so light than will determined only by experienced eye. By homely glance you can see not more than water down blue as if you mixed white color with general blue. But look attentively to that shadow, it is not nearly white!

Here it is all gradations of milk, from transparent-white to drawn-milk color. And in inaccessible height blue color becomes bright and deep dark blue.

 

My love to the clouds is a gleam of desire to see a virgin perfection. It makes me happy. It protect me from dingy, grip, commonplace, powerless and flat human society`s colors.

 

Cat-yoga by Annamain

Hey-hey, I have started a new funny project I called Cats-yoga! :)  Now I have made several pictures about yoga`s asanas as it could been made by cats.

Later I will write a coulpe words about the character I create, Misha the Cat. Now I only like to draw it by fine brush and black ink. The process make me in meditative mood because I like to work with calligraphy style, brushes and black ink. So pleasant peaceful thing.

See more at http://www.annamain.org

Wow, it`s the great rain! I am absolutely wet!

It`s the great rain now! Like a shower! The day began a bit cloudy and then a big clouds covered all sky up to horizon:

 I owerslept everything and went to the market too late so the great tropical rain shower me at all. Unfortunately there was no foto to meka a picture of such disaster. And when I came back in 5 minuter it was a clear view!

I guess it`s specially for a lazy landlady as I am. So I came home absolutely wet with my shoes and clothes full of  water.

Hah, funny! It`s something like adventure for that day :)

Two Funny Fishes on brother`s shirt

Lady and Gentlemen! Dear friends! Anna have the day out of work and get enough sleep the first time at that month! Oh my god! How small things could make us happy! So I want to introduce you my resent work:

It was the awful day, full of unprepared graduation works refered to me and students unready to prepare their graduation works by themselves. Than I fell myself so bad and had to recur to my art. Art and painting recover me from all situations, but I had no blanks for it... so I stole a white shirt of my brother Alex and did with it something you can see at the picture.

The technolagy to paint it I developed last september 2009 (the period I , did my  t-shirt collection, taught Mary Terechina and created the site www.ann-mary.com  ). It is hard to paint on fabrics bacause you can`t  controle the colors and water. Everything based on hight intuition and feeling of grains of fabric. The water and colors flows in differend ways depends on type of fabric, direction of stratchin, nature of fabric etc. So the techigue needs a great experience of work with water colors, deep understanding the final idea and sense of the process. So that work is somethig like meditation and pure zen.

...But it`s enough of  philosophy! Tjis is my new design deducated to fishes. Why fishes I don`t remember; if I do I`ll tell you. Let`s see it :) .

 

Also I did several another designs I`ll show lated and created a funny cat-yoga pictures you can see later.

Deducated to the next day

Hello everybody! Next day it will be the final of graduation process and exams for all students. A small joke from me for them.

All characters belongs to the authors, of course.

Absolutely exhausted and fallling to sleep

Subj! that week was so hard that I can` feel the taste og tea and food, can`t sleep and work.

And I was follen to sleep at 6:00 PM and slept up to midnight and didn`t feel myself refresh but found the fresh mails from students. That  term is really hard and i am looking forward to my holidays in Liapades, Corfu, Greece. I desire and dream about the sea.

The final period close to graduation work

Tht week was awful. A lot of students i saw the first time appear on the horizon of my life with their unfinished graduation works.

Most of them have no ideas about the deadline, graduation work`s structure and my own free time. Actually I have no free time. They found me on Skype at any time, includes 7:00 PM up to 4:00 AM. Thanks God for Skype and typing, it is the best thing for professors like me to make an advice. God bless advisors, God bless professors, and let our students to make better works.

P.S. I am going to hate mibile phone. students calls me too and it is much more noisy and annoying that anything else.

P.P.S. God bless Skype. I love it!

All-Forum.Org - I have prepared it!

Today - tonight I daresay - I have finished the main preparation to my new project. The universal, global Forum now is available on www.all-forum.org

Now we have opened the part in Russian, and the english-language will be in nearest future. If you ask me why I decide to build such new project I would answer: I want to create a place to many people could discuss many themes without borders. From business to teaching, from housekeeping to hobby, from psychological problems to yoga and healthy life. Of course I will support it with all of my possibilities, will make psychology consulting, coaching and even will start several online courses. It will be! And now, happy, I want to sleep. The beginning is done.

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My life with the Persian Cat, part 1

Hi everybody, now I have finished my lectures and I`m thinking about 2 issues: to have a rest or to walk. Actually I am too tired for everything. Until my decision hasn`t been ready i would like to have a fun.

This picture is about my life with Misha, my persian cat. Every owner of cat could understand  what i mean

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My brain has broken into thousand pieces, tired.tired, tired

This is the hardest period of the teacher`s year. Many students are passing their exams, graduation works, also I make my lectures, working for projects and try to have the time for my painting. Just imagine the life: from the sunrise I check my e-mail to found student`s works for that day. In the morning I look like this bird:

If they forgot to do it yesterday they try to trick and send it

Hard week night

Wow, it was hard week! Thanks god I was able to check student`s works successfully and eventually had a short free time for my paintings etc. 

As you see it was tonight, mostly near 3-4 AM. If you think it is really my free time you are not right.

Happy birthday, my Lizard. Master-class with aqua-pencils

Lady and Gentlemen! This is one thing to say about my today activity : tired. A lot of students and their works made my mind heavy as a stone. So I wish to do something creative in hope to have rest, peace and good sleeping.Here it is something like Master-class from Anna.

 

I would like to invite you in spiritual journey in Lizard`s life. For it I used aqua-pencils by Derwent, ink-brush by Pentel, water-brush by Sakura color products corp and unnamed peace of paper.

Body`s Best Time

Scientists and adepts of yoga tell us about biorhithmics and cycles of sleeping and wake. I`ve read a huge amount of researchs and several time several times have been trying to live as healthy as I read. It was pleasant life but... absolutely against my nature.  First of all the best of my rest is 8:00 PM.

The right life means to stand up at 7 AM, have a good breakfest, after work have a walk and then go to sleep before 11-12 PM. I would like to have a short sleeping at 11 AM and 8 PM, no breakfest and work to all night. I would like to meet sunrises and then do yoga...  Even to do yoga before sunrise as recommended by specialists! But normally my nature rebells against any sport at 10-11 AM. They say the morning is the most active time for our bodies. They say an active morning is the best time to do a brain work, to meet people etc. But I would like unhurried hours to drink green tea with honey and nuts before 11 AM slipping. No bustling and no meetings. No sport or phone calls. It is my slow time for invite myself into a new day. Somethins as you slowly go in cool water of ocean.

The Underground Madonna

Yesterday I was running to work. My way passed by underground and I was lucky: the picture I had seen was so beautiful and exciting: Young woman not more then 23-25 years old with a baby in sling.

She was beautiful by nature, with long blonde hear and blue eyes, fine features, miniature. It was beauty itself, but I sense something more - strong, true, spreading in space. It was the handmade bag in patchwork style in her hands. The bag seems to be made by herself, from velvet pentagons patchwork style.  Everything in her was exactly in place. There was no expensive things or stylish accessories. No glamour or artificial things.

She and the baby was simple in the way makes people silent and rest. Such aspiration is deeply inside us.

The essence of warm, love, softness, tenderness; silence and rest. It seems if the waves of harmony and peace flows around her. The saint thing, pure and divine, wich so rare meets in everyday bustling. The essence of divine rest and safety, and care I`ve seen before only in dreams.

You know, it is forbidden to use camera in saint places, such as Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai. I agree with it. Camera could make a perfect picture but also it lives the point  instead of us. We can`t be involve in a process if we are trying to shoot it. Then, disturbed by shakes of the undeground wagon, I made my unperfect scetches by hands.

The thing I want sense more and never forget.

Mystic Dolphin: panno in batik technigue

It is spring, the end of April. Cold, sunny, windy, cloudy, reiny and cold, cold, cold... My internal calendar scream that cold weather should be finished. So I imagine several decorative soft panno in batik and mixed technigues.

All cells of my body and soul need warm, grass and more then all - gentle touch of a sea. I found rest, peace and consolation in sea colors.

What is the essence of a sea? Waves, soft passage of colors, undulate lines. I sense it by skin and paint it and feel it in silence of mind.

Have you ever seen how change colors of sea near a seashore? Deep blue color of waves becames blue-green, emerald, then green, and at one moment you could openmind it as shadows of yellow, shadows of sun and sand.

I feel it as soft energy of endearment and love penetrates layers of sea water, and layers of our bodies and soul. Our blood has elements of a sea. We could open it deeply inside in what place soever. Just close you eyes and try to feel it.