Autumn and spring are probably my favorite seasons. This is the kind of weather I like to depict in my paintings. In summer, you can hardly find such contrasting and saturated colors and shades that surround you from all sides. However, in winter, in good weather, there are also interesting combinations of colors. But autumn is special in this regard.

Hello everybody! Today I propose to continue the virtual journey through Karelia that I started earlier. We will walk through the Ruskeala Nature Park again, but now we will visit its northern part to look at the marble quarry from the other side and see many beautiful views of this place.

I was taught to paint watercolors on a wet base back in art school. But in those years, my teachers didn't pay enough attention to this technique. It was believed that it was necessary to wet the paper with a brush only in order to remove from it a possible layer of fat that adheres to it by hand during the application of the sketch. For many years, I thought the same way, because in those years I sometimes had to draw on not very expensive paper weighing about 150-200 g/sq.m.

Hello to all travel lovers! Today I will tell you about the continuation of our family trip from St. Petersburg to Karelia. We will talk about the impressions that I received during my visit to the Ruskeala Nature Park. There is a giant quarry here, from which marble used to be mined, and now there is a lake filled with water.

If you cover the territory where our city is located, you can find that endless forests stretch around us. During the German occupation during the Great Patriotic War, many residents of the city and surrounding villages joined the partisans, creating a powerful resistance to the invaders. My father was even born in a partisan detachment in the late autumn of 1943. Therefore, Bryansk is considered one of the centers of the partisan movement, which is marked by numerous monuments and monuments of military glory.

Hello to all travel lovers! Today I propose to continue the topic started in my earlier publications about Karelia and about our August trip there by car from St. Petersburg. Last time we entered the territory of the Ruskeala Nature Park and found a beautiful, water-filled quarry from which marble was once mined.