DCCON👦🏽 Do you have some photos or links for the projects left? It would be interesting to see.
ДАРЬЯ👧🏻 http://www.kr-pro.ru/galerea-ghiro/ There you could find the painted ceilings. I’ve worked there.
And this is the building of Russian Chess Federation. The restoration of stucco there.
https://new.vk.com/im?act=browse_images&id=50855
And concerning the book, the illustrations to “Alice in Wonderland” in my portfolio are the part of my current project. Now I’m negotiating with the publisher. We’ll be approving the draft the next week. And then will be the long, but pleasant drawing process.

DCCON👦🏽 Can your works be bought? And if yes, where?
ДАРЬЯ👧🏻 You can buy them directly from me. You can fill in the order on work or buy rights for using finished works. I publish my illustrations here http://illustrators.ru/users/darya-rey
Paintings – only by order, finished works don’t stay with me for too long.
Currently my website is being developed. I will upload my works available for purchase there.

DCCON👦🏽 Great! And now I want to know, what Russian painters, designers or illustrators are you following? Who do you like, admire, or just simply friends with, and you’d like to share this with us?
ДАРЬЯ👧🏻 If to mention illustrators – I admire the works of Denis Gordeev. I can watch them for a long time.
Speaking of painters - Sergey and Maxim Sidorenko have great works. They’re very bright and positive people themselves, and so their drawings.
There is one painter – Vitaly Popov. He’s just the living embodiment of a painter. To understand this, you should see him with your own eyes and talk to him. He’s the landscape painter, he paints with gouache. His work with this material is just magic to me!

DCCON👦🏽 Thanks for those good recommendations.
And what foreign masters are you interested in? Maybe you’ve worked with someone?
ДАРЬЯ👧🏻 I haven’t worked with foreign masters yet. I like the works where great realistic skills combine with magic. Masters like that are Jean-Baptiste Monge, Edward Binkley, Robert Ingpen, Shaun Tan. There are so many painters whose works I admire. And I’m constantly opening someone new to me.

DCCON👦🏽 And how do you expand your knowledge (books, blogs, courses)?
ДАРЬЯ👧🏻 I often flip through the books on anatomy and academic pictures and paintings, apart from that – watching the books and catalogues with the works of painters and illustrators. I visit exhibitions and galleries, sometimes - art lectures. I’ve completed the book graphics course this year. And the main source of expanding my knowledge is watching: I watch the painting and think of how it was created, then I’m experimenting myself. Of course, internet is a vast source of knowledge and inspiration. I’ve found many interesting painters this way. If the painter whom I’ve interested in is keeping a blog, I watch over it. My knowledge-box is filling this way too.

DCCON👦🏽 Our interview has dragged a little, so, the last question to not torture you;)
What would you like to wish for the beginning painters or illustrators?
ДАРЬЯ👧🏻 I wish them to love their work and to achieve the goals they’ve set, overcoming every obstacles on the way. And let inspiration never leave them. And if it’s left (it’s a very unstable thing, really) – to not stop drawing. This is the difference between a pro and an amateur. Professional is always working, no matter if he has inspiration or not. So, draw, draw, and draw again! We learn to draw only by drawing!

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