Plasticine painting by Tatiana Barinova
From a distance her artworks look just like oil paintings on canvases. But get closer, and you will notice Tatiana’s works are made of something that will probably seem quite familiar to you: plasticine, a modelling clay popular with children. The talented Ukrainian artist explains that she turned to Plasticine because of her four children. Tatiana Barinova has created a series of Plasticine paintings “Calendar”, “Holidays”. These colorful pictures are made in bright folklore style – Christmas compositions, angels, Easter birds, spring holidays, winter landscapes, scenes from everyday life. Tatiana Gennadievna Barinova is a professional graphic artist. In 1991 she graduated from the Kiev Institute of Printing named after Ivan Fedorov (Department of graphic, artistic design and illustrating books). She works in different techniques: drawing, painting, small plastic (clay). The art works by Ukrainian artist Tatiana Barinova are in private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
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Turkish watercolorist Rukiye Garip
Born in 1964 Garip graduated from Painting department of the Vocational School of Gazi University in 1985. After graduation, she worked as a stylist. She tried her hand in a pottery workshop. In 1987 she opened a ceramics workshop with a group of friends. In 1989, Rukiye Garip started working as an art teacher. She retired after having served 20 years in different cities and schools. Garip continues her studies in Balikesir still painting in her own workshop. Rukiye Garip draws realistic pictures in her favorite medium – watercolors. The main subject for her art – the beauty of Nature, which, according to the artist, is rapidly disappearing. The artist pays much attention to the details. She says: “I think that the main distinguishing feature is hidden in the details”. In her painting, Rukiye Garip uses blue and green, as the preferable colors creating the calming effect.
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Daniela Wolf pencil drawing
The tools Daniela uses for drawing these awesome images – colored pencils. According to the artist, it takes her only 2-3 days to complete the drawing. Talented German artist Daniela Wolf (nicknamed Svera) creates beautiful hyper realistic portraits with pencils, that look like photographs. In her art gallery – portraits of celebrities, fantasy drawings, still life and movie scenes. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any information on the biography of the artist, except the fact that she enjoys writing, mostly fantasy novels and science fiction short stories.
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Belarusian artist Anna Silivonchik
One of the most prominent personalities among young Belarusian painters, Silivonchik works in extremely distinctive style. The artist has created a special world, referring to the very archaic layers of culture, while maintaining a clear link with the art of the twentieth century.
Thus, the source of the artist’s aesthetic guidelines is in fantastic realism of Chagall, naive art of primitives of the early twentieth century, and the local arts and crafts, and of course, folklore. A variety of characters – children, lovers, people, animals, birds, angels, lions and mythological creatures – unicorns, sirens, dragons – inhabit a peculiar and unreal world of Anna Silivonchik.
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Painting on silk by Elena Prudnikova
Inspired by the beauty of London and its attractions, architecture and streets, the artist has created a series of remarkable paintings on silk.
Smolensk based artist Elena Prudnikova graduated from Moscow Pedagogical University (graphic arts faculty) to become a teacher of Art. Her favorite technique of painting is batik, or painting on silk fabric stretched on cardboard, with acrylic paints.
Many of her works have participated in international exhibitions and are in private collections in Russia and abroad. Elena Prudnikova is a member of the International Association of Art. She lives and works in Smolensk.
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Soo Kim pencil drawings
Los Angeles, California based Graphic artist and web designer Soo Kim prefers old ways of creating art – pencil and pen drawing, instead of using Photoshop. The talented young illustrator has created a gallery of wonderful pencil portraits of iconic faces of the last century. Among them – Audrey Hepburn (series of portraits), Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy, and Brigitte Bardot.

In addition, her gallery includes characters of our favorite films, such as The Great Gatsby and Game of Thrones (celebrities and movies series). In her work, Korean artist Soo Kim uses graphite, colored pencils, pastels, Conte and charcoal. According to the artist, her favorite artists are Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent Van Gogh and her compatriot Lee Chul Soo – woodcut artist depicting humble life in rural Korea.
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