Arles ruins

Gordes

Bonniouex

View on Antibes

View on Antibes

Street in Aix en Provence

View on Cote'd Azure

Red Volcano Cliffs

House on the Coast

Mauna Kea

I was going over some of my old sketchbooks and I found this drawing I made while visiting the Big Island in 2009. I was on one of the most private places on earth with ocean's surf creating soothing and calming atmosphere away from all the stress from civilized world. One one side there was a vast Pacific with somewhat visible peaks of Maui Island in the further back and on my right the view of the biggest volcano Mauna Kea.

Hankook Ad in Times Square

Recently I walked through the Times Square and I noticed a billboard I worked on last year for Hankook – the tire company. The idea was to wrap around a circular-like lobby of the hotel Marriot Marquis on 45th and Broadway. It's simple, catchy, and maybe a few people will notice it. It felt good and rewarding to see something you were working on!

Pow Wow Ceremony

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I was always fascinated with Native American culture, its rituals, traditions and spiritual way of being. A Pow wow is a Native American gathering ceremony that brings music, drumming, dancing, singing and the celebration of life from the past to the present. The word itself derives form Narragansett meaning "Spiritual Leader". Both men and women perform spiritual dances that transcends them into birds, buffalos, wolves, horses and other creatures that inhabit Native American lands. One of the most dramatic dance is called the Fancy Dance featuring vivid regalia. Some of the members have body painted faces, they wear hand-crafted jewelry, feathers, colorful stripes and hat wear that all adds up to a unique cultural experience.

I was inspired to make a series of drawings after I saw a gallery The Gateway to Nations Pow Wow by Oskar. Special Thanks to Oskar for his amazing photography!

Clover One

My latest painting "Clover One" has been complete! I started sometimes in March or April after I got inspired from a walk in Astoria, NY to create a close up of a natural world, a world sometimes in oblivion.

50x50 inches, oil on canvas

Here are the links to my other paintings in the same theme:
Sensational One
Majestic One

Kualoa

The little offshore islet, Mokoli`i, is said actually to be a fluke of the cut off tail of a dragon-like creature. Hi`iaka (or Hi`iaka i ka pali o Pele), goddess of lightning and Pele's younger sister, was traveling along the Windward coast when she came upon great Mokoli`i, the Mo`o dragon. Hi`iaka mightily fought with the giant lizard and slayed it with spears of lightning. She then dismembered and used the body to form part of the base of Hakipu`u road. And when she threw the tail away, it landed in the ocean by Kualoa.

Oahu Volcanic Cliffs

Oahu has it's own character. Besides tall New-York-Like skyscrapers in Honolulu, the landscape and ocean are quiet beautiful. I traveled around the island and a few drawings on locations. Here is a view on the Volcanic Cliffs i drew from one of the beaches on the North Side of Oahu.

Oahu / Hawaian Landscape

Waimanalo Beach / Oahu

I was on Oahu for a few days, before I flew back home. I found a picture-perfect place here at Waimanalo Beach. No wonder it has been discovered before me, and it's a memorable place, so you see just married couples taking their wedding pictures here. But you can also meet a local Hawaian or Samoan! I liked the food truck across the street and ordered their shrimp plate. Aloha!

Anini Beach w Kilauea Lighthouse

This was probably the most peaceful ocean of all the beaches in Kauai, the water was flat as glass table. Yet, I realized this was a perfect spot for locals to hang out on the weekends. A lot of kids were playing in the sand, families were having pick nicks, it was just another day in paradise!

Napali Coast from Ha'Ena Beach

When I got here, on my first day in Kauai, I discovered this magnificent beach with big surf, soft sand, and insparing views of the Napali Coast. On my previous post, you have the view of the cliffs from the other side of the island. The road here doesn't connect, and this was the dead end. Later that day I took 2 miles hike to Hanakapiai Beach. Great steep climbing the hills you see in the drawing. This place was as backdrop in many Hollywood films, the most recently Johnny Depp has filmed 4th "Pirates of The Caribbean" here on this part of the island.

Napali Coast from Polihale Park

Polihale Park is the longest wild sand beach in all of the Hawaii, it measures about 11 miles long. Is not easy to get here. The majority of websites would suggest you only drive 4-wheel vehicle, but I made it here on Hyundai Accord, that's 2 wheel light-weight little car. I was a bit worried when I saw the sign in the beginning of the dirt road, but the weather was dry and I decided to take a try and go where only locals go. It was a beautiful day, fresh and happy, worry-free, I was the only car on the highway from Waimea, the last town on the western side of Kauai Island. There would be no signals of the local radio, and I couldn't be laughing more from local DJ's joking about their wifes... But here I was at the end of the road, as if my grandmother said " the end of the world". Literally. The road on Kauia isn't going around the island. The massive Napali Cliffs stopped the people from intervention and building an asphalt civilized road. But, there is a famous 11 mile hike through magnificent Napali Coast( it was closed when I was there).

The drawing here depicts the Napali Cliffs and the Pacific Ocean views in it's might size and breathtaking beauty.

10x15 inches, Japanese water Marker on Watercolor paper