67. The Old Testament

The selection for the current post was inspired but this recent drawing. After Victor sent "Adam and Eve" to me, I recalled another "Eve" from awhile ago. 

Then I started thinking: two are not enough for a post. What would I combined them with? When I mentioned this to Victor, he said he has about 20 works on the same topic. No, I said, this is too obvious. I'll think of something else based on his drawings I already have. Then came to mind some more drawings based on the Bible characters, and here they are. I'll try to keep it chronological.

"Isaac"

"Moses"

"Prophet Elijah"

The next one, as I realized now, is actually about a story from the new Testament, since the head is supposed to be of John The Baptist. Oh well, I don't think I am going to continue this theme, so let it stay here.

"Salome"

66. The Dreams of Flight

This post celebrates the two-year anniversary of this blog!!! 



Just yesterday Victor sent me a series of his most recent drawings, including this one, "The Iron Icarus."



"The Iron Icarus"

 "Железный Икар"

As it often happens to me, this image reminded me about few more that I have had in my "collection" of Victor's drawings for awhile. Well, they may not necessary depict Icarus himself, but they can easily be organized in "chronological" order, showing kind of a biography of Icarus. Or of anyone who wants to fly!

I am keeping here Victor's original titles (well, this is not completely true, he usually doesn't give titles as he draws, only when he sends them to me), which somewhat contradicts to my "biography" idea. But this is my blog, and I still see them connected.

"The dreams of Flight."

"Мечты о Полете"

"Inspiration." 

"Вдохновение"

  

"The Fallen Angel."

"Павший Ангел"

This last drawing doesn't have a title. And it doesn't really fit my "life cycle" idea, neither about Icarus, nor about dreams of flight. But I still think it belongs to this post.

And although it looks kind of tragic, but this guy - a man? an angel - has pretty big and sturdy wings, so I am sure that everything will be fine!



65. Portraits - 3

Back in the Fall, I made two posts where I presented some of Victor's portraits. Since then, he sent me some more that I'd like to share. Well, I would not claim actual likeness (and neither would he, I am sure), but they are definitely recognizable, except the last one, whose identity I can only guess, so I am not stating it here. Besides some factual clues, each of these portraits carries unmistakable emotional characteristics, which are more important than physical likeness. I wish I knew why suddenly he decides to draw this or that personality, zigzagging between times and places. But as usually, he would never explain.

 

 

 

 

"Joan D'Arc"

"Жанна"

 

 

"Paul Cezanne"

 

 

 

"Prophet Elijah"

"Пророк Илия"

 

 

 

 

 

"Andrei Rublev"



 

 

"Poetess"