Feb 13

Sistine Chapel – painted by a sculptor

In the summer of 2008 I’ve spent couple of weeks in Italy, visiting Venice, Florence and Rome.There are no many other places in the world with higher concentration of history and art. For an artist this is even more impressive and overwhelming journey. Among all museums, palaces and places I have been to, without the doubt, one stood up high above – the residence of the Pope in Vatican City and more specific the famous Sistine Chapel. You don’t realize the power of the Catholic Church until you visit the “headquarter” in Rome. I had dedicated the entire afternoon on the Sistine Chapel and although surrounded by hundreds of tourists and noise, the time was well worth it.

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Sistine Chapel building outside


The reason I wrote this story is that recently someone have forwarded me a link of Sistine Chapel virtual tour. See it for yourself – the quality is amazing and you can zoom in or rotate the building and the ceilings for amazing private viewing. The bigger your screen is, the better!

Inside of the Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco by Michelangelo

Sistine Chapel named after Pope Sixtus IV, the uncle of Pope Julius II and it is best known for its ceiling fresco of 1,100 m2 (12,000 sq ft) by Michelangelo. It may never happen if the money for Julius’ magnificent tomb project Michelangelo was working on did not run out. Pope Julius II then eventually commissioned Michelangelo to work on Sistine Chapel ceiling instead.Although studied painting with Ghirlandaio, Michelangelo considered himself more sculptor than painter. Michelangelo is intimidated by the scale of the project. He thought that he was handed this project because his enemies wanted to him to fail. This was the first ever fresco he did, followed later by “The Conversion of St. Paul” and “The Crucifixion of St. Peter” he did later for the Vatican.
Michelangelo took some great freedom while doing the enormous work for over 4 years, from July 1508 to October 1512. For example he did painted a fig tree while depicting the tree of life, which traditionally is represented by an apple tree. In the story of the Fall of Man, the serpentine, presumed to be Satan, is represented by Michelangelo with a woman head and breasts.
Michelangelo had to remove some of his frescoes (two lunettes) to make enough space for the Last Judgment. The artist also had to repaint “The Deluge” few times as the plaster was too wet and developed mold overnight.
Michelangelo was not just a talented sculptor and painter, but like Leonardo he has some great engineering knowledge. To paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling (68 feet or 20 meters tall) he needed a platform high enough and large enough to allow him to reach the ceiling and move around. Initially Julius’ favorite architect Donato Bramante, planned to build a scaffold suspended in the air with ropes. The idea did not work out and would have leaved huge holes in the ceiling, once the work was done.
The problem became bigger than was thought and the matter was taken before the Pope. He asked Michelangelo to build a scaffold of his own. Michelangelo created a flat wooden platform on brackets built out from holes in the wall, high up near the top of the windows. He lay on this scaffolding while he painted using bright colors, easily visible from the ground. The vibrant colors and especially a certain shades of blue the painter used were bought with money from his brother.

The ceiling was unveiled in October 31, 1512.

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Feb 09

Colors for good mood

One dark and rainy morning in the middle of January provoked me to create this abstract work. Winter so far is being weird here in Southern New Hampshire: no snow on the ground, mild temperatures and rain. Come on, it suppose to snow, lots of snow. Instead we got rain showers like every other day.
My response to this weather is to create something bright and full with hope. I started with creating one flower and then connecting it to another, following my inside feelings and needs, without thinking much for the end result or pattern.

Abstract Art by Veny

"Joy" 2012 Abstract Art by Veny


I think it came out good as a whole composition. I used larger 18” x 24” canvas so it won’t look like a patch. It is available for sale on my website and in my Etsy shop as well. Currently this painting is exhibited in Frame Depot gallery at Milford oval for all that would like to see it person.

Until the next time keep on going!

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Feb 07

Mr. President I am starving…

Mr. President I am starving… artist, full time mom of two boys pre school age and house care taker. Like the 99% of US population I am struggling to make living despite my hard work. We blame the poor economy, but shouldn’t we blame you – all politicians who brought us where we are. Or we should blame ourselves for putting our trust in you and vote for you to only get another big disappointment.

Please help me to explain my older son why he can’t have presents for his 5th birthday, regardless of how hard his mom and dad work. Maybe I should ask you to do it; you are good speaker if nothing else.

By the constitution you may be the president of all the people in Unites States, but in the reality you are more the president of 1% super rich. Look around you! Instead serving jail time for financial speculations and robbery, bank executives are filling up you entourage.

Anyone jailed in United States for causing the worst in the world history economical crash? Any takers? Big Bank CEOs? Anyone?
Not one person found responsible, Mr. President. Instead of punishing greedy bank executives your administration employed them and provided unlimited funds from taxpayer’s money to rest of the thieves to “recover” the country’s economy. It is like giving a bank robber the key to the federal vault and making another thief chief treasurer.

Recently my husband asked me to find him part for his 20 years old Toyota. While searching online I bumped into recent article about how two of the biggest Japanese automotive wire harness suppliers Yazaki and Denso were held guilty for bid fixing by the US Department of Justice earlier last week. Four of their top executives will even be facing criminal proceedings and be jailed 15 to 24 months in addition to $470 (Yazaki) and $78 (Denso) million fines. Another Japanese supplier by the name of Furukawa Electric Company will pay $200 million fine and three of their executives were also sentenced to imprisonment.

Hmm, yup this is Japan… in US we have democracy, right? We have the freedom to make the choices that really don’t matter or make no impact on anything!

Since you have done “great” job in your back yard, now let’s find another country in world to punish. Never mind analyses predicting $5 per gallon gasoline, because your administration like predecessors feels there is unfinished business somewhere in the world. Remember the nuclear weapons “found” in Iraq? Lots of them, right? Wasn’t this the public reason for starting the war in Iraq?
Now, are we sure they have them in Iran? Or you will start another war just to keep the Pentagon’s war machine well oiled? Who has the interest of thousands young man and women to continue die overseas, in the name of what?

If you have not noticed, Mr. President, the world changed. The most powerful weapon is economical strength and potential (measured in GDP) rather than military structures. This allows countries without regular army forces and “giants” like Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Monaco and Switzerland to be among the richest countries in the world. Money talk factor! Not military “muscle” power.

Or we have done well in domestic plan mucking with the health care sector for example? Is it that hard to understand that whatever business the government puts hands on sinks? History is full of “successful” government interventions examples like real estate market, auto industry, etc.
Isn’t the US government main function to implement and enforces the laws written by the Congress, not to run the business?

As a result of all government efforts to date my family budget gets smaller and smaller…tiny.

I can’t blame people that don’t have money for art when they struggle to buy food. I can only work harder and hope for a change, but when the trust, Mr. President, is broken, vanished, evaporated…there is no way back! At least for me…

Mr. President you are the first black president in this country, which is a huge achievement from historical prospective, but you may become the first one, to force US citizens to emigrate in search of better life during his presidency. Imagine this: people from the country “founded from immigrants for immigrants” forced to immigrate for economical reasons?! This is not utopia, but the near dark future.The clock is ticking…
I may see you around in November… if I am still around.

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Feb 06

Do you speak violin?

As a little girl I wanted to learn to play violin. Buying one was out of the question, renting was more affordable.There was always something more important, so I never did.But I kept my feelings for the instrument and when one day I had a chance to visit Paris, France, bumped into a luthiers shop. In France, they are called luthiers boutiques, and they are usually group in close proximity within the same district (neighborhood) because of shops height restrictions. In Paris most of the luthier shops are along Rue du Rome.

Entered the store I was like a little girl in a candy store: everywhere you look there violins, violas, cellos, double basses and viols. All instruments were packed neatly on shelfs around the shop walls, as soldiers awaiting orders. Most of these places are buying, selling and repairing instruments. Only limited numbers are associated with instruments makers in workshops in Mirecourt, France’s best violin and bow makers region. The first violin maker in Mirecourt was probably a luthier named Tywerus, a luthier to the court of the Prince of Lorraine in the early 1500s.From Mirecourt, great luthiers such as Chanot, Vuillaume, Collin, Nicolas Lupot, Renaudin, Audinot, Clement, Derazey, LeClerc, Serdet and many others made their way to Paris.

The best time to visit luthiers shop in Paris is the spring or beginning of the fall. Most of them are closed for the summer, as their major business is long term renting of musical instruments. As a tourist I did not generate big staff attention, which allow me to roam around the shop and discreetly take few reference photos for which ,of course,I asked and received typical french (not very enthusiastic) “OK” from the manager. Sure, there are thousands photos online, but I prefer to take the photo first hand as it carries the unique shop atmosphere, which helps me connect with the violins when I paint them last week.

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The Violins by Veny

And here are my violins hanging in a painting I have finished couple days ago. Intentionally choose black background to make the instruments pop….original shop walls were brown wood. As all of my paintings, this one squeezed all of my energy, but at the end I am very happy with the result. My husband on the other hand had a hard time photographing the painting for my etsy shop and website. He said that the black reflects the lighting and makes it extremely difficult to produce realistic photo. My future plans are to create few more paintings of different musical instruments.I guess my interest is provoked by the fact I never had a chance to learn to play and I can now partially fulfill the little girl’s desire!

Until the next time keep on going!

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Jan 24

The Fleuriste

Have you ever walked by a flower shop in Europe and more particularly in Paris, France? If you did, you have most likely noticed the variety of flowers and the slight, almost on purpose, disorder. These establishments are like treasury places and antique shops all together. Most of them are being around for long time as giving flowers is a very French custom with occasion or without. In 2007,while visiting Paris, I took hundreds of reference photos of flower shops with intention to create a painting some day. Well the “day” was the last week when I finally decided what I wanted to do and worked few days straight to create “The Fleuriste”. Like most of my artwork, it is acrylic medium on 12” x 16” linen canvas stretched on kiln dried wooded bars. Sides are 1-1/2” deep and are painted to allow hanging without a frame if desired. The painting is currently available for sale in my Etsy shop and soon will make it to my website as well.

Original Canvas Cityscape art by Veny

The Fleuriste - Original Cityscape art by Veny


Fleuriste is a French word and translates as flower artist, flower boutique which reflects exactly to what you can expect to get from a fleuriste. These artisans are skilled to the point that watching them is like watching a painter working on a canvas. Speaking from experience creating a flower arrangement is comparable with drawing an artwork. It is just different way of art, different media and different materials.
Way back in my early years I worked at a flower shop starting with no experience but using my artistic nature as inspiration. Over a short course of time I have created steady pool of customers who insisted to get their flowers for any occasion arranged by me. Ignoring any standards, I have used my imagination to create bouquets that one can only imagine. Every single customer walked out with something unique. They came back and brought their friends. Soon the owner of the flower shop would leave me alone finding something to do at the back. I was doing not only flower arrangements for my customers, but also developed a new service by custom wrapping gifts. I was working long hours around big holidays, coming home exhausted but satisfied by hundreds of unique bouquets and original gift wraps I have created for my loyal customers. My hunger for art grew exponentially ever since and I see art opportunity everywhere I go.
Until the next time keep on going!

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Jan 18

Smaller is more expensive

In the past two weeks I sold two small 11” x 14” paintings, $100 each. While these are not big numbers they are still revenue. For me sale is a sale regardless of the number and do proceed all equally. Usually I keep enough art shipping supplies to cover immediate sales. This time I have noticed that I am out of small boxes. I could order few, but this will delay my shipments with at least a week. Besides filling up my shipping supplies my two other choices were to either find suitable box locally or use larger box meant for larger paintings.
The first option and less expensive one requires me to modify the box’s filament in order to make it safer for the artwork, but there is no guarantee that box can withstand carrier abuse, since it not made for shipping art paintings. I was able to find a box that could work for around $15.
The second option is to use larger size box, lined with foam and designed to handle paintings up to 24” x 36”. These strong boxes are explicitly made for shipping framed or unframed fine art, have stronger corners and can withstand severe forces up to 350 lbs. (158 kg.). While this is impressive their price start at $36 apiece.
My advertised shipping, including handling (hence shipping supplies) was $25 for 48 Contiguous States.
Getting the right shipping price is especially delicate thing on art priced at the lower end. Paying ¼ of the purchase price for shipping may seem a lot for someone and could be a deal breaker. Unfortunately for me , as infrequent shipper, I am not in a position to negotiate better rates with different carriers. In addition, shipping fine art have one very important caveat, this is to deliver the painting in the original condition to the customer. You can’t just replace damaged or missing painting with another one.
This is why I always gladly pay extra for insurance. So, when you add all the lines the total for properly shipping 11” x 14” paintings comes to $55. This includes shipping box, shipping to destination cost, insurance and delivery with signature confirmation.
My second option would cost me $21 less but I could risk having the painting damaged in transit to my client.
I went with more expensive one, reducing my profit, but purchasing a piece of mind. I will never forgot the YouTube clip where the UPS driver delivered a package by kicking it all the way from the track to the front door :(
Even if I had the right size shipping box for 11”x14” painting it will still cost me $30 to $35 to ship it.
The conclusion is that the smaller the art is the higher the shipping to sell price ratio is, the smaller is the artist’s profit.
Until next time keep on going!

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Jan 05

We have the key

Do you have a friend who complains all the time? I do. No matter what, he always finds something negative in his life. There are no good enough days for him. And if on rare occasions there is nothing to brag about he feels so miserable enough to complain about.So, I don’t even bother to ask.
We all have good and bad days. While we pray for more successful days we seem to can’t avoid the bad ones. Can we?
For all of you that don’t know it here is a tale: a powerful monarch gathered his advisers and asked them if they know how to avoid having bad days. They all did not know the answer. The King asked them go around the world and find it. They went around the world for several years and when came back presented a book of few thousand pages that is supposed to have the entire wisdom of the world. The King looked it and without even open it send them back: “It has to be simple than these thousands of pages. Who has time to read it?”
So his brave advisers went traveling the world again and when they returned presented the monarch with a small book of about hundred pages. Again, without even opening the book the majesty said: “It has to be simple enough even for those who can’t read to understand it. Go back and find me the wisdom which will be my legacy for the coming generations to remember me with.”
Again the king advisers traveled the world in the search of the wisdom of how to live with no bad days. Time passed and most of the advisers died, his majesty was near his death as well. The few that left finally came back with a message: “Your majesty we finally found it. We’ve a single key that holds the power.”
“What is it?” impatiently whispered the king.
“It is one word my lord: Attitude!”
“How this can be? How this can erase the bad days?”
“Your Majesty, Attitude is everything. We all posses the resolution and we can use it anytime we want to. Our Attitude controls how we live our life. Attitude is what makes us have good and bad days. Attitude determines how we look at things.”
At this moment the King realized that this is the answer he was looking for and he can now rest in peace.

We are the only one that can control the way we live our lives. No one can make you miserable unless you give them permission. Our attitude allows others to make us happy or unhappy. Good or bad days are brought to us by our own attitude. Attitude is determining the way we look at the things. We succeed or fail based on our attitude. With the right attitude we can transform bad moments into good ones.
I also have my fair share of failures and successful time. Learning that I can control they I live my life gave me a hope I didn’t have before.
There is also another truth which I have been refusing to realize for a long time: Yesterday is history and you can forget it, tomorrow is a mystery that may never come. Today is the present; it’s a gift from God. The key to level living is doing it one day at a time.
For thirty something years I have been worry about what happened in the past (yesterday); what I said and what I did; should I have done it differently? Then I was teasing myself with what tomorrow will bring in? Will I be better at the things I am doing?
What is the point? Again, I had to change my attitude (it did came at a price) and realize that what really matters is what I have done today. If you can do it you start living more balanced with fewer ups and downs.
One of my neighbors owns over 200 acres and he has these big chunks of forest that are clean of any shrubs and branches looking like manicured park grounds. When I’ve asked him how he does it, he said: “One little square at the time and lots of hard work!”
It reminds me of the saying of the old master painter I was studied from. He was always saying that a great painter consist of 10% talent and 90% of hard labor. This can be a great piece of advice for all beginners’ artists who are starting with huge enthusiasm and are getting disappointed when the success does not come quickly.
Attitude is everything! Attitude is the key to your own success or failure. The hard labor is just vehicle that brings you there. The best of it is that we are in control and should not be blaming anyone else if we can manage it successfully!

Until the next time keep on going!

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Dec 30

Get attention to your art

When it comes to comments about your art, you probably noticed there are two general groups. Most people will tell you they like your work or won’t say anything at all. I’m always
stunned when someone will rather hold his comments, because they do not want to tell the truth or they don’t know what to say. It is OK to express your feelings…..at least I think
it is. How many times people pass by your art and afraid to make any comments? How many times you wonder why?

Look no further. At the end it turned it is not so hard to find a group that does not hold anything back. Children. Go to
The nearby zoo and spend some time listen to the comments kids make. If you want their honest opinion of your art go even further and bring your stuff at the zoo. Settle somewhere and start
painting. Listen to what the little ones have to say about your art. Adults are boring, they’ll ask almost the same questions, but kids are honestly open:

“Wow, I like it. You are really good.”

“Mommy, this is awesome. I want to paint like this lady too”

“Is this a tiger? I want it. Mom, can I have it?”

“You forgot the stripes, tigers have stripes.”

“That is so cool.”

“I really don’t like it, it is scary!”

You can’t possibly more honest opinions than that. I also have realized that I most part kids are right.They see details that are overlooked or something is done wrong. If you really want to hear something about your art, listen to the most honest and often tough critics.Little ones are not holding back and they don’t afraid to express their admiration or tell you what they don’t like. You may be amazed by the feedback you receive….something you can’t always get from most adults.

Until next time keep on going!

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Dec 28

Challenge the rules

Someone said that there are two general groups of people in life. One that strictly follows the rules whatever they are and the other one is breaking them whatever they are.
But there is a third group – the one that question the rules whatever they are. Breaking the rules is no different than following them. Instead of blindly following the rules, rule breakers blindly break them.The problem with followers and breakers is this does not require you to use your brain. Challenging the rules presents you with a better chance to learn and succeed than the pure rule followers and rule breakers.

If you apply this theory to the world of art painting you will see same major categories. There are great painters who follow the art rules and become very good artists, but their names will only be one of the many excellent painters. There are artists – rule breakers who ignore rules just because they think they’ll succeed by just doing the opposite….but most of them never do. And there are painters who question the rules and by doing so research and develop new techniques and movements. Those, who dare to challenge the rules, are usually the ones putting the foundations of new art movement and whose name the history remembers. Leonardo Da Vinci is probably the most famous of all, followed by artists like Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Andy Warhol and many others.
It is Leonardo’s thought to always find the reason and don’t settle for just the fact: “Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. “

There are as many ways to paint as there are artists.Being curios and always on a look for a different way to do it is extremely important in the world of art. As once Claude Debussy said “Works of art makes the rules; rules do not make the rules of art”. Painting following the rules can make you good, even brilliant, but you’ll be one of many. So just forget about the rules for a moment and paint what intrigues you the way you see it. It does not matter if it is wrong by the rules what matters is to be your way. Don’t worry about critiques and don’t let them stop you of going your way.
Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter and one of the major contributor to the history of postwar American painting said “There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen…”

Dropping the boundaries gives you the chance to create with your art a true expression of self, add a personal touch with no rules and no boundaries.
As Leonardo suggests:” Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. “

Do something different if you can, but use your brain and feelings to reach the right mixture. Even if it not by the rules, even if it is a lie which tell a truth.

Until the next time keep on going!

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Dec 22

The art of Ringo

Richard Starkey, better known as Ringo Starr, got his start and interest in art much later than Paul McCartney and John Lennon, and chose to use a much different medium. While his Beatles counterparts chose to express themselves artistically through pencils and paints, Ringo decided to dabble in computer art. He really didn’t have any training with computers, but found a painting program and started playing around with it. Like most of us know, trying to draw with a mouse is extremely difficult and frustrating, and often doesn’t create quite the look you were going for.

Ringo decided to invest in an electronic tablet to help him with his drawing, and found it to be much easier.The results are very pop culture-esque; brightly colored pictures with little to no depth or dimension, mainly of faces, but not portraits. They are fun, whimsical, and make you smile. Some people may think that anyone can create art like that, but they obviously haven’t tried it for themselves.

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On a trip to Monte Carlo, Ringo was so inspired by the scenery and lighting that he decided to put that inspiration on canvas.He found an art supply store, and after purchasing the essentials, set up outside and started painting. He thoroughly enjoyed it, and while he was quite good, considered it a hobby for a very long time. He still produces acrylic on canvas pieces, but it is his computer generated ones that gained the notoriety of his peers.

His work has clever, simple titles that describe perfectly whatever it is that is on screen. The reason behind this is simple;when working on a computer you must name your file in order to save it. Most people typically name it whatever the file is or is about, to help better identify it later. Following these same guidelines, Ringo named his pieces. It allows for easy identification when trying to describe a piece as well. For instance, the piece “Hat Man” is a depiction of a man wearing a hat.

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A couple of his pieces, one in particular, do have names that don’t describe their pieces so simply. The piece “Zak” was named when the artist typed the words on the piece, and could not figure out how to remove them. Instead of painting over them, he made them part of the piece, and named it after his mistake. His adaptability of using various painting programs allows him to become a more versatile artist, creating happy mistakes rather than devastating ones.

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After a childhood wrought with illness, complications, and hospital stays, it is wonderful that he was able to overcome all of that and turn into the world’s most famous rock-and-roll drummer, and can add artist to that title. His works have been admired by thousands in galleries in New York, and have been accessed by thousands online. The internet has become a great outlet for art distribution, and seems appropriate that his work has risen in popularity because of it.

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