News
February 20, 2025
Illustrator of the year!
I am glad to announce that I was chosen "Illustrator of the Year" by the Japanese Illustrator Association.
Thank you to everybody who was involved in this interesting competition!
February 14, 2025
Happy Valentine's Day!
Dear friends, on this special day I wish everybody love and peace of mind.
January 29, 2025
Chinese New Year is here !!!
Chinese New Year, also called Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is China’s most important festival.
I created this drawing for Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Nightingale", published in China by Great Star Madia Co.
December 30, 2024
Happy New Year!!!
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a stargazer? Now you have a great opportunity to delve into the mysteries of the universe. And a team of two astronomers will help you.
This is my latest drawing for the calendar of the publishing company Detstvo-Press in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
You can see my previous designs of the calendars here
I wish Happy New Year to everybody!!! Enjoy the magic of art and holidays.
March 18, 2024
"The Beast That Tamed Man" exhibition
March 1 is traditionally celebrated as Cat Day in Russia. In honor of this interesting holiday, the exhibition “The Beast That Tamed Man” opened in Library No. 2 on Chernaya Rechka as part of the WildArt project. It is dedicated to the cat family's meowing, purring, and sometimes even growling representatives.
One of my tiger watercolors has been exhibited there, also meowing and purring from the wall. He brought me another diploma!
July 17, 2024
Blue Color competition
This competition is about color, but it is also about discovering new talents and interesting ideas.
Ironically, the true blue color is rare in nature. Ancient artists had to extract that color from certain rocks not available at the surface.
What is the blue color for you?
For this competition, I chose an illustration I made for the "Snow Queen", one of the magical fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. And guess what? It is among the finalists now.
July 20, 2024
Diploma
My second award for this year. I hope there will be more!
July 29, 2024
The Big Book of Andersen's Fairy Tales
Let me introduce you to the book I have been working on for quite some time. It is one of the volumes of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales that is going to be published soon in China! Each story is accompanied by one-of-a-kind watercolor compositions I made specifically for this book!
August 1, 2024
Winner of the JIA 2024 Platinum Award
I am so excited to find out that I became one of the three main winners of the JIA (Japanese Illustrator's Association) 2024 award, receiving Platinum. There were 294 applicants from around the world who presented a total of 773 artworks. What I submitted were my five illustrations from the new version of Little Red Riding Hood's fairy tale. Japan loved it!
Click here to see all the artworks I presented for the competition
August 13, 2024
A new member of the JIA!
I am a member of the JIA now! Japanese Illustrators Association. Thank you to Takahiro, Ryoko, and everyone else involved in the process!
Here is my gallery on the association's website
September 4, 2024
My postcards are in the Great Vancouver Zoo of Canada!
Through the oceans, seas, mountains, and volcanoes, my postcards have finally reached Canada and visited the Great Vancouver Zoo. People, animals, and even dinosaurs had a chance to see something different.
October 22, 2024
The Little Red Riding Hood is being published!
Great news! Charles Perrault's story with all new illustrations is just about to be published by Strecoza Publishing House in Russia.
You can pre-order the book here , but it will be available likely this December
