Mom’s Trip to the Mailbox (Teen)
My mother walking across the yard, back from her trip to the mailbox sometime in the late 1970s. She is carrying home the Pravda newspaper (her mandatory subscription as a Communist Party member) and a...
View ArticleFantasy Wall Drawing (Teen)
When I was about 16, my parents replaced wallpaper in my room. They didn’t buy enough rolls and ran out of them before they could cover the part between the door and the corner at the head of my bed....
View ArticleInvader from Hell named Chaos (Teen)
The ultimate horror: a nightmarish nomadic invader bringing destruction and death to civilizations of peaceful farmers and builders. Just another high school fantasy. Could you tell I was into history...
View ArticlePlanet of Erotic Dreams
This was just a high school fantasy landscape influenced by sci-fi novels, hormones, and my attempts to fathom the inner workings of the brain. Another title: Erotic Brain Landscape. Share this......
View ArticleSurreal Magic Castle (Teen)
Another high school drawing, started in class and finished at home, depicting a magical landscape with a perpetual violent storm in the sky. Share this... Facebook TwitterGoogle Pinterest Linkedin...
View ArticleThe Interceptor of Souls (Teen)
Another teenage fantasy rooted in childhood nightmares. As I walked home one rainy summer night I noticed that the fog and drizzle created halos around the street lights, and the treetops to the both...
View ArticleA Hairy Jug with Seeing Flowers (Teen)
Just another teenage attempt at surrealism. Share this... Facebook TwitterGoogle Pinterest Linkedin Whatsapp Email
View ArticleThe Apple Stub of the Garden of Eden (Teen)
What happened to Adam and Eve’s apple stub? It fell on the ground, developed a root system, and grew into a mighty stub, giving birth to baby apple stubs that fell not far and kept growing. The Garden...
View ArticleAlien Self-Eating Planet (Teen)
As I was drawing doodles in my Biology class, I imagined the possibility of alien life existing, not as individual units, but as a singular organism covering the entire planet. And since every organism...
View ArticleAlien Planet with Living Clouds
This planet has a variety of alien life forms, from ball-like creatures that fly in straight formations, to mountainous blobs that secrete corrosive substance from its open lungs, to gigantic...
View ArticleThe Planet of Thinking Crystals (Teen)
These angular shapes may look like an abstract painting – but they are, in fact, an alien living forest of colorful thinking crystals. Their thinking, however, is pretty rigid, simplistic, and abstract...
View ArticleThe Black Camel Society
My two best friends from school were coming for the New Year’s party into my house, so I drew a welcoming Happy New Year poster for this occasion, with the three of us eating little black camels and...
View ArticleZubov Reading a Sci Fi Novel
My childhood friend in Ukraine who loved reading sci-fi as much as I did. We shared the same obsession with books, music, and absurdist humor, which inadvertently led us to developing a code language...
View ArticleSelf Portrait with a Smile at 16 Years Old
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View ArticleSelf Portrait, Picasso-Style
Growing up I had prints of Picasso’s early paintings hanging on my walls. This is my teenage attempt to imitate his style in a self-portrait, about 16 years of age. Share this... Facebook TwitterGoogle...
View ArticlePicasso Reversals
Prints of Picasso’s works – his drawing of Don Quixote (1955) and his painting, Girl on the Ball (1905) – hung in my room as I was growing up. One day, as a mind game, I tried to imagine the playful...
View ArticleSpecter of Don Quixote: Picasso in 3D
An eerie specter of Don Quixote, the fossilized remnant of the feudal era, haunting the Western world. He lurks outside its cities and waits for an opportune moment to strike at its industries that, as...
View ArticleAn Aged Pinocchio, Ink Drawing
The ink version of an oil painting that has a story behind it. Click here to read it. Share this... Facebook TwitterGoogle Pinterest Linkedin Whatsapp Email
View ArticleBirth of Athena
As a teenager my interest shifted towards fantasy pictures. Books on Greek history and mythology challenged my imagination. Athena was born out of Zeus’s head after Zeus swallowed her pregnant mother,...
View ArticleSelf Portrait as a Teenager
Drawn at about 18, when my head was filled with little other than hormones and romance. If only I could go back and change something in that past, I’d change the haircut. Share this... Facebook...
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