There is a melancholy in this work, perhaps incompleteness, as if I could not decipher reality. I call it Mystery. "The Brightest Star" is also something very personal and inspired by my Nature hikes.

The Brightest Star [SOLD]

Beach crows are amazing creatures. I couldn't resist watching their behavior sketch some scenes of their interaction with humans. It's amusing how these thieves are waiting for the right moment to steal something delicious when people go swimming, almost like humans. So I followed that path and turned crow into someone more human-like. I liked how the fantasy developed the composition and drifted me into this dreamy, ethereal, and pretty exquisite world. I hope you'll like it too.

The Crow And The Girl

"In The Misty Lands" is a parable of man's destiny and relationship with what is beyond. The theme here is a conceptual dialogue that shows the changes we have wreaked on the earth and seems prescient of future disasters. Life is like a vast ocean; we're merely drifting by God's will. We pass obstacles. It's underwater rocks on the way where we sail. We can't see land. The mist covers it. We must set foot on solid ground, but we don't know what awaits us there.

In The Misty Lands

The piece is from my "Beach" sketches. I have always been inspired by my ability to recognize different human states. I like to mix surreal and abstract and arrange elements in intricately interwoven patterns.

The Sea And The Sunshine

As I wanted to make painting more laconic and neater, at some point, I felt the need to get rid of minor elements, leaving only the most "precious" ones. I also felt the minimalistic background could have an exciting impact on the composition. I ended up making the background at first, then constructing the center element using the prepared sketch.

Man On The Beach

"Psychedelic Forest" is an insightful trip to the world where nothing is defined yet. The place where universal forces are playing all along what makes time lose its ordinary meaning. We have to define everything from scratch relying on our minds. If we want to understand ourselves, we need to project it on the canvas of time, and at a particular moment, all hidden senses will reveal themselves in many different forms. They're all will be linked together like a forest that connects all living things.

Psychedelic Forest

All doors are in front of you. Open the ones that are yours and hit the road boldly. Avoid fuss, go forward without looking back, and step by step, you will turn from a student into a master and a master into a creator. Find your world and light it up. So that it will burn like a star at the zenith, this is what will be your heavenly home, intimate and dear. This is what will become your mirror that reflects your light.

Enigmatic Incarnation

"Bathers" is another work from "Beach" sketches. Here, I primarily work with the free interpretations of people in the water. While observing, I sketched them through. I find my interest not in how they look in real but what they symbolize. Whether huge cosmic giant gods or galaxies splashing within stars, connecting in strange clusters. All things possible and given to your own interpretation as well.

Bathers

As a child, one of my favorite books was Jules Verne's classic, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. That book captured my imagination and opened my eyes to a new world, a mysterious, unexplored world, a world teeming with strange life forms that no one had ever seen before. That book awoke my sense of wonder at the world's oceans. Today, my obsession with the mystical world is becoming more and more evident as that has inspired me in my art practice through all these years.

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Alexey Adonin