A new painting

Jill and I went to Mccaren park. Then a storm came. And Jill went to work.

Ketubah

Here's a Ketubah I made for a friend of mind. The wedding itself was awesome, and had a very good spirit.

Instantly Aged

I opened the news and saw that Jobs resined. I decided to learn more about this man and looked him up in Wikipedia. I learned many details I didn't know, like that he left Apple in the 80s' and that he made Pixar out of a division of LucasFilms, but what stroke me was the combination of encyclopedic formality with the immediacy of everything. "He is ... former chief executive officer of Apple Inc".
-Huh, they updated it already, I thought. I kept reading until I hit "On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO". It was written as if the matter at hand was some event in the life of Napoleon or something from the Cold War affairs. I looked at the clock. It was 12:01 AM, August 25. With the snap of fingers, life was alphabetized and archived together with all the rest of the events that happened on a certain date in the history of the Earth. I felt like I instantly aged, and was myself stuffed between bits and bytes, possibly to be found on some date in the history of the Earth. What happens when you are found? Is it like a resurrection, or more like a reincarnation, since you are unrecognizably out of context?
Dear diary, in my next life I will be reduced to few words by someone who is also tagged in some tiny, meaningless corner of the informational cosmos.
And I will be able to Google us both in the current life. Watch.

The lost third painting

Here's a view from Roosevelt Island, from few weeks ago.

The Identified Flying Object over the Brooklyn Bridge

New collaboration. Me and Jillian began this painting of the Brooklyn Bridge, and then Clare Wilderson and Carley Leedy joined us and added some fun to it!

Vitaly and Jill Workship

This group of paintings is a result of a collaboration revived by the Brooklyn Independent Television who interviewed us last week, we (Jillian Leedy and myself) began working together again, always sharing a canvas. The initiative is gaining steam. We usually pick a spot somewhere in the city, spend about an hour on smaller, individual canvases, then coat a large canvas with some color, and begin painting it together.

Here are some of the little, individual, practice, get-the-shit-outofa-way ones:










And here are the paintings themselves:

5/6/7's Class of 2011

This is a gift I made to the graduating 5-6-7's class at the Early Childhood Center at Sarah Lawrence. They liked it a lot.

A gift for 80th birthday

It pretty much shows I haven't drawn for a while. I might sit there with the 0 brush another year, but there's no drawing there. O, what can you do. I called it bad composition #4. I'll fix myself. I promise!

Jerusalem (or not)

Here's another attempt to save myself and create something during the last days of a month long vacation I wasted on complete bullshit.

Trees

As you noticed I haven't done much lately. But given some free time I did make something. Inspired by wonderful work of a very talented Anna Rozhdestvenskaya, I did these trees.

First one, of course, wasn't that great.


The second one was better.