The Girl in the Red Dress - Alena Kurajdova

I was having a cup of coffee with Melodi in Berkelouw's Paddington Bookshop and Cafe, enjoying a delicious lemon pie and browsing the classical paintings in a book Melodi found.. and There she was, the girl in red dress. She was just sitting in front of us,and reading a book, enjoying her time there as we were; She was reminding a very classical composition, as if she was coming into life from an Ingres work.
You know what happened next. We asked her if she would be interested in posing for me for a portrait.
A couple of days later she contacted us and she would be happy to pose for me.

We immediately started to work. I will add these paintings in short time, but as of now all I can offer is a picture taken with her while we were having a cup of coffee after a long session. We very having a hot debate over the compositions as she is also from the art world

 

Picasso:All About the Colour Blue

As you all know, Picasso Exhibiton is in Sydney. I was invited to make a presentation and deliver a speech about Picasso in the New Acropolis, a philosophy school based in CBD.   As some of you might know, I have a broken English. Thus, I was very honoured when I got this invitation. Althought they know how my English is, they still wanted me to deliver the speech. I still asked for a translator to be ready there (just in case). Luckily everything went so smoothly...
My presentation focused on Picasso's blue period, as it is my favourite period of Picasso.

Visit to National gallery of Australia Canberra

Following a week of full rain and no sun shine, I was feeling very depressed in Sydney. The weekend came at last, but still no luck, the weather forecast was not promising at all. We decided to hit the road and visit the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, where the Renaissance Exhibition was running.
I also had the chance to see one of my favourite masters, Lucian Freud

 

My Studio

Recently, I have been working on four paintings at the same time. The second one from the left is the work I am going to put in Archibald Prize 2012, the portrait of Bille Brown.. Wait and see how it will look like!!!

Open Studio> Ciao