Oil Paintings (the goal for this project is 50 paintings)
The Portraits
These are paintings of writers and poets, explorers and musicians, those who stay current in spite of passing time. The paintings were done using old black and white photographs and were kept that way. These are sketches, impressions that were inspired by the words these people say and deeds they did.
The Portraits
Charles Dickens
Feodor Dostoevsky
Feodor Dostoevsky
“Are tears the dewdrops of the heart?”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Feodor Dostoevsky
Feodor Dostoevsky
Feodor Dostoevsky
... всякий из нас пред всеми во всем виноват, а я более всех. ― Ф.М. Достоевский, Братья Карамазовы
And another thing, mother, every one of us has sinned against all men, and I more than any.” ― Feodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / SOLD
Anton Chekhov
Feodor Dostoevsky
Anton Chekhov
Если тебе когда-нибудь понадобится моя жизнь, то приди и возьми её. ― А.П. Чехов, Чайка
“If my life can ever be of any use to you, come and take it.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Seagull
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Leo Tolstoy
Vladimir Mayakovski
Anton Chekhov
Без любви жить легче. Но без неё нет смысла. ― Лев Толстой
It's easier to live without love. But there is no point without it. ― Leo Tolstoy
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / SOLD
Vladimir Mayakovski
Vladimir Mayakovski
Vladimir Mayakovski
А вы ноктюрн сыграть могли бы на флейте водосточных труб?
― Владимир Маяковский
And you, could you have played a nocturne with just a drainpipe for a flute?
― Vladimir Mayakovski
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $850
George Müller
Vladimir Mayakovski
Vladimir Mayakovski
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.
― George Müller
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
You see, but you do not observe.
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $700
A. A. Milne
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $800
Virginia Woolf
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Virginia Woolf
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
― Virginia Woolf
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
John Steinbeck
Feodor Chaliapin
Virginia Woolf
To be alive at all is to have scars.
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Rudyard Kipling
Feodor Chaliapin
Feodor Chaliapin
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
– Rudyard Kipling
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Feodor Chaliapin
Feodor Chaliapin
Feodor Chaliapin
.. свобода в искусстве, как и в жизни, только тогда благо, когда она ограждена и укреплена внутренней дисциплиной
- Федор Шаляпин, Маска и душа
(В роли Дон Кихота)
.. freedom in art, as in life, is only virtue when it is guarded and fortified by the internal discipline
- Feodor Chaliapin, Mask and Soul
(In Role of Don Quixote)
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $1200
Walt Whitman
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.”
– Walt Whitman
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Robert W. Service
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit -
It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
― Robert W. Service
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $700
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Большой талант требует большого трудолюбия.
— Пётр Ильич Чайковский
Great talent requires great diligence.
— Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Alexander Block
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Alexander Block
О, я хочу безумно жить: все сущее увековечить, безличное — вочеловечить, несбывшееся — воплотить!
— Александр Блок
Oh, I want to live recklessly: all that essential - to perpetuate, all that subjectless - to humanize, all that unfulfilled - to bring about!
— Alexander Block
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Arthur Miller
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Alexander Block
You never do any good until you get into some trouble.
― Arthur Miller
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Tom Crean
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen
Tom Crean was a polar explorer, and was known as the "Irish Giant" with the "heart of a lion"
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen
The difficult is what takes a little time. The impossible is what takes a little longer.
― Fridtjof Nansen
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Edmund Hillary
Fridtjof Nansen
Edmund Hillary
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
― Edmund Hillary
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen
Edmund Hillary
A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.
― Roald Amundsen
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
C. S. Lewis
Roald Amundsen
C. S. Lewis
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
― C.S. Lewis
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $900
Thomas Mann
Roald Amundsen
C. S. Lewis
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
― Thomas Mann
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.
― Isamu Noguchi
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Jack London
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
— Jack London
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Pablo Neruda
Isamu Noguchi
Vasily Shukshin
I crave a love so deep, the ocean would be jealous.
— Pablo Neruda
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" / $950
Vasily Shukshin
Bertrand Russell
Vasily Shukshin
С подлыми жить легче. Их ненавидеть можно – это проще. А с хорошими – трудно, стыдно как-то.
— Василий Макарович Шукшин
It's easier to live with vile ones. You can hate them - it's easier. But with good ones it is difficult, shameful - somehow
— Vasily Shukshin
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $900
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
— Bertrand Russell
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $950
Maxim Gorky
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Свобода от всего-это наказание.
― Максим Горький
Freedom from everything is punishment.
― Maxim Gorky
Oil on canvas / 18"x14" $900
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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
― Albert Schweitzer
Oil on canvas / 18"x14"
Charles Dickens
Feodor Dostoevsky
Anton Chekhov
Leo Tolstoy
Vladimir Mayakovski
George Muller
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Alan Alexander Milne
