The birth of an archaeopteryx

Winter outside, summer inside

Summer inside, winter outside, oil on canvas painting

My newest painting of the goddess Kore and the hand of Hades

This is my newest oil on canvas painting of the goddess Kore, the maiden aspect of Persephone, being taken to the underworld by the hand of Hades

Summer inside, winter outside

I just wanted to draw a silhouette with the summer sun inside while outside there is a cold winter but there is more than this in my drawing. There are hidden figures and emotions and the silhouette reminds me of a woman I once loved, her strength, her attitude. The character in my drawing looks feminine and strong at the same time, like an amazon.

A solar painting about love

I've made this painting today. It's a dream of love ❤, a hot moment of passion under the summer sun I cannot feel now. It's raining outside and it's raining in my heart

T.A.T.U

This is my new pencil drawing of the T.A.T.U girls by the time they were singing about the lesbian love. They were just playing the roles of two teenage girls in a butch-femme lesbian relationship.
By that time I didn't like them because they  were not real lesbians but now I understand the message of their art, now when Russia has become so conservative and no other "T.A.T.U" is allowed to appear in the Russian culture, since Yelena Mizulina made the gay propaganda law.
I miss the liberal Russia of the 2000's and I hope the new king of religios right russian politics will not spread across the world.

If T.A.T.U girls were singing about lesbian love in today's Russia...

 

 If T.A.T.U girls were singing in today's Russia they might have been accused of gay propaganda, according to Yelena Mizulina's law but by that time there was no gay propaganda law in Russia. By that time Russia was a free democratic country. I miss those times when I was listening to TATU. I was only 15. By that time I liked Lena Katina, she was looking like me. They just played a role and their lesbian relationship was not real but they did it so good, imitating a butch-femme lesbian couple and I wanted to be the femme in that couple, she(Lena's character) was so similar to me, she as like me.

The drawings above are not good at all but they mean something to me and that's why I keep them. I was only 15 when I made them. 

I miss TATU and their  music, I miss the democracy Russia has lost, I miss that liberal Russian society, Now it all have been replaced by bigotry and hate and I am terribly afraid this type of dictatorial religious right politics will spread across Eastern Europe and not only.

It's terrible what it's happening o human rights worldwide since 2012. 2012 was not the end of the world but might be the beginning of the end.