Colored pencils drawings on paper is the technique I’ve used for my recent painting series New Normal. I just love the simplicity of a colored line on the paper at one side and the sublime color possibilities of the old fashioned coloured pencils on the other side.

It’s a sort of vis a vis of the simple idea of the elemental drawing on the paper towards the complexity of the depicited scenery and hidden emotions. And just this seems to be the real, true physical synapse where interfere my feelings and the investigating of the painting possibilities given by the certain moment of time, namely the time of isolation due to Covid epidemic.

I like certain fragility of the drawings achieved with coloured pencils. Or, if you wish, I like having the courage to use simple colored pencils to express some serious message about my personal feelings of unease, perhaps even fear due to the uncertainity of the given situation. And yet it all seems so normal……