A road to... An art journal of Urszula Andrejczuk, self-taught artist.

Dandelion

2008-04-01T16:26:00.000-08:00

Oil on 11x14in canvas, painted in a mixture of direct and indirect technique, in a warm palette of browns and oranges.

Sauvage

2008-03-21T13:56:00.000-08:00

oil on canvas, 9x12"

Nude in Grey

2008-03-15T13:55:00.002-08:00

12x16", oil on canvas

Man with Snake. Finished painting

2008-03-03T13:54:00.001-08:00

oil on canvas, 11x14"

Man with snake. WIP 3

2008-03-02T10:36:00.001-08:00

Man with Snake. Work in progress 2

2008-02-28T18:27:00.001-08:00

I worked on the background and glazed a mixture of reds over the body.

New oil painting, work in progress 1

2008-02-25T20:27:00.002-08:00

Male nude, oil on canvas, finished

2008-02-25T20:25:00.002-08:00

11x14", oil on canvas

Male nude | work in progress 3 & 4

2008-02-19T15:37:00.001-08:00

I put a glaze of warm colors over the body and worked a little on the background.

Male nude | work in progress 1 & 2

2008-02-11T10:44:00.001-08:00

I'm starting new painting: male nude. Here are first two steps: drawing over tinted background and underpainting in zinc white/titanium white mixture (at this point following Scott E. Bartner demonstration).

White Cat

2008-02-07T10:12:00.001-08:00

watercolor and pencil underdrawing on paper

Male nude studies in charcoal

2008-02-07T10:08:00.000-08:00

An exercise in foreshortening.
Charcoal and white chalk on tinted paper.

Tyson. Portrait in oil.

2008-02-07T10:06:00.001-08:00

Portrait of Tyson, underpainting painted from life, the rest in studio. This one is inspired by Sargent's "Dr Pozi at Home". I put glazes and scumbles using a piece of rug; I was trying to mimic the effect of rich color and texture I see in Odd Nerdrum's paintings.
Oil on canvas, 11x14"

Black Mesa

2008-01-22T19:02:00.001-08:00

watercolor on paper, 7x5 in

Male nude, painted from life

2008-01-19T18:46:00.001-08:00

watercolor on paper, 10x13in

Ancient dwellings

2008-01-19T18:44:00.001-08:00

watercolor on cotton fiber paper, 10x13in.

Male nude in charcoal

2008-01-19T18:42:00.000-08:00

An exercise in fortshortening.

Male figure study in watercolor

2008-01-10T13:51:00.001-08:00

SQUIDOO: Fine Art in Oil, Watercolor, Pencil and Charcoal

2008-01-09T16:23:00.000-08:00

Recently I joined Squidoo, nice and interesting on-line community. My lens (Fine Art in Oil, Watercolor, Pencil and Charcoal) has many of my works, old and contemporary favorite paintings, list of books about art worth reading and links to resources about oil painting. Please visit my lens for details.

Fine Art America

2008-01-09T16:19:00.000-08:00

Today I opened small on-line gallery on Fine Art America. Please visit urszula-andrejczuk.fineartamerica.com and take a look.

A study in watercolor

2008-01-08T16:29:00.000-08:00

A study of male half nude. Painted from photo, graphite underdrawing and layers of thin washes; flesh color is built from 3-7 layers. Hair done in dry brush technique.

Glazing technique. First attempt.

2007-12-31T15:49:00.001-08:00

I'm starting a new project: learning the glazing technique. I want to use it mostly for skin tones, mostly in shadows while the lightest parts should be build in thick and opaque paint. I'm using the technique I learned from Leonid Gevitz during the workshop last year. Underpainting painted in white and burnt umber, when dry a layer of warm, transparent colors are applied (burnt sienna, alizarin crimson, burnt umber) and then goes cooling - painting with colors mixed with white (opaque).

Here is my first attempt. I didn't quite follow the recipe because glazes and opaque layers are painted over underpainting done in burnt sienna and white.

oil on canvas, 12x16in

Nude in pencil, finished drawing

2007-12-21T19:12:00.000-08:00

I finished the drawing. Here's the result. I'm quite pleased with it. I'm thinking of making the series of nudes with empty books. Could be interesting...

pencil on paper, 10x13in

A figure drawing. How to realistically draw flesh?

2007-12-12T19:57:00.000-08:00

I have Steve Assael book of figure drawings at home that I often study. Excellent pieces. Although small (average is 11x14in) but, oh boy, so detailed. And the flesh is drawn so convincingly and "touchable". So I'm trying to make my drawings more alive. Today 3 more hours spent on this small nude...

LIGHT charcoal drawing of male nude

2007-11-02T09:07:00.000-08:00

charcoal and hite chalk on tinted paper