Simon Kozhin Paintings

Odessa beach with soft light sand and blue coastline in the distance is a beautiful simple motif. To paint a life sketch you don’t need a lot of paints, a limited palette is enough. ...

I noticed the motif with the bathhouse while walking through the village of Kyn for the first time. We stopped on the Chusovaya River near the stones where I also wrote several sketc...

At the beginning of April, sometimes at the end of March, when the snow has already melted and there is still no first greenery, everything in nature is not bright. Soft muted pastel...

This castle, located on an island of rock, attracts many tourists due to its picturesqueness. The very variety of stone and vegetation, although not very dense, creates a texture of ...

Autumn removed from the forests, from fields, from all over nature, dense colors, washed away greens by rains. Groves were made through. The dark colors of summer were replaced by ti...

These newly planted apple trees bloom pink in the spring. Now they have grown and changed a lot. And in 2014, apple trees had just begun to take root in Kolomenskoye Park near the wo...

Its not every fall that the foliage turns yellow at the same time. And the bright leaves of maples do not always turn red and yellow at the same time. You have to literally catch the...

In summer, the river, surrounded by trees along the banks, flows calmly, and occasionally you can see fish swimming in clear water. Summer heat plunges into an atmosphere of laziness...

A barge slowly floats on the water, a quiet move and the murmur of an old ship can be heard near the shore. On the slope of the day, when a slight coolness after a hot day is already...

May in Teberda is a rather windy and very changeable climate month. It is rather warm at night and during the day, and after the sun it may suddenly snow and rain. A lot of green sha...

In winter, the enchantress wrapped trees in the Kolomensky garden with her duvet. Many branches of trees broke due to the large amount of snow, and the...

Since childhood, I have been indifferent to horses, I love to draw them very much, conveying their grace and beauty, play of colors on the skin like mother of pearl. This horse and c...

For painting a picture, I made a few full-scale etudes of night London. I hope that the audience looking at my picture will feel the energy of the night city. This red sky only happe...

Northern White Sea with a more severe Nordic character, frequent storms and cold winds. It does not immediately show and reveal its beauty to the traveler, as if luring him with its ...

The very changeable weather in England for the open air is the concentration artist on the motive in a short period of time. Wet grass after rain is completely different in color and...

Sometimes the simplest motif, such as the view from the window, can become a picture or find an image in poetry. The snow has already melted in early April, there are frosts at night and during the day, if the sun peeps out, it becomes quite warm. Soon its time to bloom, and the old plum...

One of the sketches with poplars was painted in the open air in early spring. This is a wonderful time of the year when everything wakes up after winter. The snow has just melted, but there are no leaves yet. I painted a few small sketches...

This view was painted from sketches after a trip to Crete in the village of Bali. During the trip, I painted 40 sketches from nature. The motive is not complicated at first glance, b...

These are puddles in April from melted snow and mirror reflections of trees and branches in them. The color of the puddle is green and this gives the reflection a nice tint and blur....

In the Urals, in the village of Kyn, I visited twice. And my attention was attracted by a pine tree that grew on a rather rocky hillside. Despite the harsh conditions, nature brings ...

I think that many have read Alexander Dumas novel “The Count of Monte Cristo” and know about If Castle, where the prisoner languished. Arriving a...

Kemer with its green beaches is always full of tourists. Palm trees on the coast are a wonderful motif for an artist. With all the complexity of the compositional rhythm of palm tree...

Huge melting ice floats in the Atlantic Ocean, gradually melting and dissolving in it. Provenance: 2007 - 2016 Private collection. Exhibition: 2019 Exhibition at the international co...

My favorite season in Moscow is the New Year holidays. Snow, the city is decorated with colorful lights, New Year trees appear, the city comes to life on the eve of miracles. The fee...

In September 2022, I painted from life a pink house on Kolpachny Lane. I chose a point for painting the motif next to Mazepas chambers in the Kitay-Gorod area. In the study, I tried to catch fleeting moments and a gliding light. When I started the sketch, a couple of men came up to me, accompanied by a lady. She asked me a very strange question. What will you paint here? What's good about this street? I painted attention to two young artists sitting opposite. He asked me a strange question, I don’t ask him what he found in the lady with whom he was walking. There are a lot of people...

Having visited the Volga River again, the artist strives to come here again. These expanses and fresh wind, blue distances, fishermen and boats off the coast. This simple life of peo...