Elena Shichko

Basket of Apples

2020

Original oil painting on canvas 50x70 cm. Still life Good Evening was painted from nature in the evening with contrasting lighting. The work should serve as the visual center of the...

I really love chestnuts. Their glossy surface glistens and glows in the sun. The dark brown skin is warm and inviting. Outside, they are covered with a bright green peel with thorns,...

Physalis fruit painted with oil paints on a round canvas

Autumn gives us a lot of bright colors and shades, as well as unusual forms of gifts of nature. There is no more romantic season than autumn... The first month of autumn is my favori...

Antique impressionist still life painting by Irene ( I. Stry) Stry (1899/1904 - 1963). Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size, 24L x 20H.

"Dried Hydrangea" is an American realist still life of purple flowers in a glass vase. Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also receive...

An exceptional oil painting by acclaimed British still life artist Paul Stone, The Forager exemplifies the artist’s refined approach to contemporary realism. Inspired by classical Du...

“Morning Light” epitomizes the abundance of Spring with its bustling bouquet of white lilies, yellow roses, and a sliced open, ready to be eaten pink grapefruit. Despite the levity of the scene, Lucas has challenged herself with space, making a clear contrast between subject and background. She is consciously rejecting the “ironed on” effect of a subject onto a canvas, a trap to which lesser artists might succumb. Artist Bio Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received instruction and support from wonderful and generous members of the East End artistic community. Working exclusively in oils, Lucas sets out almost daily to create plein aire landscapes and seascapes. In her studio, she works directly from life and captures the beauty of natural light as it transforms ordinary objects into visual delights. Lucas wants her work to celebrate all that is well with this world and brilliant in this life, despite its pockets of darkness. For me, she says, I know I am in the Presence of something beautiful, when it steals my breath, silences my mind, pushes out everything else and draws me in. I trust That. I use That to guide my hands as I arrange a still life or scan a landscape to determine where to set down my easel. Ultimately, That is what drives me to paint. Becoming evermore skilled as an oil painter is another of Lucas goals. To that end she remains teachable, finding it refreshing and vital for her own growth to paint with others. She has studied with favorite artists including Michael Klein...