62. Just a Few Simple Lines...

I have always admired how Victor is able to say so much with a minimal amount of lines. In many of his drawings, the same line serves more than one purpose being a part of more than one object. Often, he barely shows just some hints of lines, and this is enough; our eyes see everything they need to see.

For this post, I selected few of Victor's  works that are the most "economical" in terms of amount of lines and details. It doesn't make them less expressive or less emotional. (I need to remind that I have only those of his drawings that he has sent to me, out of more than three thousand that he has, so my selections may not truly be "the most" and definitely not "the only").

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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61. Poetry of FOG

 

Let's look at some photographs, for a change. Recently Victor surprised me with his pictures from his hike in Crimea Mountains. In March, everything there was grey and foggy, but I was amazed how beautiful this still could be. Or rather how anyone could notice this beauty and was able to capture it and show it to others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

60. Monsters - some more...

For my last portion of monsters I selected several that can also be called "hybrids." Victor has always easily combined parts of various animals inventing very believable creatures. It's even surprising that Nature hasn't actually made any of them. Surprisingly or not, he is also very good in making hybrid words, such as "chimpanzebra." (OK, now I know what my next post will be about: Victor also sent me a few pages of illustrated word-hybrids. But they are in Russian, and no way I am going to try to translate them. Sorry, non-Russian speaking readers...)

 

The first drawing is a panel of 49 creatures. I've already posted it in this blog when I was telling about my ceramics endeavors and how I used four of these images to make my tiles. I have looked at this work many-many times, and Victor's endless imagination still amazes me.

 

 



 

"My Animals"

"Мои Звери"

 

 

 

The next animal actually has a story. Two summers ago we spent some time with my friends from Ukraine, and they had an 11-year old daughter. Being somewhat bored in our adult company, she started drawing some animals, in a common children-picture style. Victor noticed, and started showing her some tricks that would make her animals more interesting and funny. They also came up with funny names for them. Then they started giving assignments to each other: one is giving a hybrid word, the other is drawing it. Below is one of Victor's  creations. (Some translation is still needed: the last letter in the word "Camel" can be easily modified in a way that now this word reads "Male" in Russian.) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is no story for the next drawing. I was actually saving it for a potential post that I would call "Legs." But so far I have just two or three of those, so I decided not to wait. Or maybe I'll repeat it.

 

 

 

 

I am not sure if the next drawing is a hybrid or actually it is two creatures. But that's the point, I guess.

 

  

 "Слонежность"