Inktober 2023

Red Inktober 2023 sketchbook

Take an Inktober 2022, turn to the back cover, reverse and start again! This is how Red Inktober 2023 sketchbook began.

31 days, 31 words. This is my 6th Inktober.

Inktober’s list

Inktober is a monthlong art challenge started by Jake Parker, one of the founders of SVSLearn. September 1st of each year Inktober prompts are posted. Artsts can also use their own lists.

Cover experience

Work in progress

Previously on Inktober…

In 2009, Jake Parker , American comics creator, concept artist, illustrator, and animator, started Inktober. The announcement was made on his blog. Parker originally started the challenge to motivate himself to improve his own inking skills. Since 2016, he posted a list of “prompts” for each day’s artwork. Artists are also known to plot out series of drawings on the same theme as part of the celebration. Participants have approached the challenge as an opportunity to practice and share their art, drawing in various art styles, and using a variety of media (the challenge originally was made only in fountain pen) . In October 2015, over 1 million Inktober drawings were posted on Instagram. I am in since 2018.

If you have questions, comments or ideas to share click here and write me. I will be happy to reply.

Follow the work in progress and real time news on my social accounts
FaceBook, Twitter , Instagram , Tumbler and Pinterest. Watch my videos and reels on Youtube and support my art on Patreon.

cesenatico italy sketchbook 2023 Yulia A. Korneva

Seaside sketching 2023

In 2023 I changed the destination of summer plein-air trip. Seaside sketching 2023 took place in Cesenatico, Ravenna and Cervia in Italy.

Русский Italiano

…and the winner is…

This year we have chosen together the colour of the summer sketchbook thank to your vates on my social accounts. Anche the winner is… ORANGE!

Cover experience

Here we go with thecover of the seaside sketchbook 3×5 cm. As usual a selfportrait opens the “parade” of landscapes and live scenes from Cesenatico and Cervia. For real time updates watch my facebook and Instagram stories.

Memories

Other years, other seasons, the same place. Watch here the pages from the previous sketchbooks of Cesenatico and Cervia (Italy)

Italiano Русский

Sketch in the shell

The shells with handmade seaskapes of Emilia Romagna (Italy) have been used for limited edition gfts for my friends and the most loyal collectors.

Work in progress

On the beach, in the city and at home, my mini sketchbook was with me everywhere. My cats also took parts in creative proccess.

Turn the page

Here we go with some of over 60 sketches made in August 2023.

Follow the work in progress and real time news on my social accounts
FaceBook, Twitter , Instagram , Tumbler and Pinterest. Watch my videos and reels on Youtube and support my art on Patreon.

If you have questions, comments or ideas to share click here and write me. I will be happy to reply.

If you want to receive the original handmade art postcards from my tours just click here and be a part of the exclusive supporter’s club!

inktober 2022

Inktober 2022 red sketchbook

Inktober is the international art challenge that connects a lot of illustrators around the world. 31 days, 31 words, paper and ink. Inktober 2022 red sketchbook was born by the cut of the notebook in bigger size.

Leggi in ItalianoВерсия на русском языке

Treat or trick by Inktober 2022 sketchbook

The illustration dedicated to Halloween is the result of digital college of 2 ink drawings. One of them, the “Uh-oh” illustration was the most difficult to find the subject to draw of all the challenge.

Inktober 2022 & Co

Scroll al the illustrations of Inktober sketchbook 2022. The topics and bonus illustrations.

If you have questions, comments or ideas to share click here and write me. I will be happy to reply.

Follow the work in progress and real time news on my social accounts
FaceBook, Twitter , Instagram , Tumbler and Pinterest. Watch my videos and reels on Youtube and support my art on Patreon.

If you want to receive the original handmade art postcards from my tours just click here and be a part of the exclusive supporter’s club!

Matite in viaggio 2022 Venice

This year it’s 12th edition of Matite in viaggio 2022 Venice collective. As from tradition it is taking place at Candiani cultural centre.

Leggi in ItalianoВерсия на русском языке

From 20th October to 6th November
21th October at 4 pm official opening ceremony.
Thursday and Friday 4 – 8 pm
Saturday and sunday 10 am – 1pm and 4 – 8 pm
Free entry

What is “Matite in viaggio”?

Matite in viaggio means “travelling pencils” in Italian. The cultural association “Matite in viaggio” aims to promote the culture of journey and the art of recording its experience, by drawings and words.


Article 3 of the Association statute says “Visiting countries and places, meeting people and communities, understanding ancient and contemporary civilizations are the conditions under which “travel sketchbooks” can express the will and dream to identify with the freedom and dignity of all men”.

The project

The sketchbook on show this year has been created in autumn of 2021 in Moscow region (Russia). It is dedicated to birches in autumn transparent and warmed by the last fall sun.

Birch is one of the most common trees in Europe and north America . You will find it everywhere from USA to Italy and from Ukraine to Russia and Japan.

Work in progress from landscape sketches to the preparation of the sketchbook for shipping to Venice.

The show

Pictures from opening ceremony and from exhibition rooms of Matite in viaggio 2022.

If you have questions, comments or ideas to share click here and write me. I will be happy to reply.

If you want to receive the original handmade art postcards from my tours just click here and be a part of the exclusive supporter’s club!

Follow the work in progress and real time news on my social accounts
FaceBook, Twitter , Instagram , Tumbler and Pinterest. Watch my videos and reels on Youtube and support my art on Patreon.

Bardonecchia beyond ski

It’s summer and we are in Piedmont in Italy. We are far from the seaside. I am here to tell you Olimpic mountains and Bardonecchia beyond ski that is worth visiting.
I will use the language of forms and colours to tell you the green mountains, blue sky, fresh air and lingt walls of houses made of typical stone.

Версия на русском языкеLeggi in Italiano

Bardonecchia beyond ski. Sketchbook made with you

The sketchbook of Bardonecchia summer has been made with you throught the social posts live videos and messages. I used A4 sketchbook to cut it in smaller pages on sketches are completed

If you want to receive the original handmade art postcards from my tours just click here and be a part of the exclusive supporter’s club!

Follow the work in progress and real time news on my social accounts
FaceBook, Twitter , Instagram , Tumbler and Pinterest. Watch my videos and reels on Youtube and support my art on Patreon.

If you have questions, comments or ideas to share click here and write me. I will be happy to reply.

Another Moscow beyond the Kremlin

What do you imagine when one says “Moscow”? Probably you think about Kremlin, Red Square or St. Basil’s Cathedral… OK, that are the most famous places full of tourists. I will show you another Moscow beyond the Kremlin.

Версия на русском языкеLeggi in Italiano

From my window

Maybe it sounds strange, but most of the Muscovites does not see Kremlin from the window. An average Moscow landscape is something like this:

The ancient churches and cathedrals standing among the skyscrapers, active and dismantled factories and the high tension cables all around.

Dacha

Dacha is the name for a country house. It is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs. The noun “dacha”, coming from verb “davat” (to give), originally referred to land allotted by the tsar to his nobles; and indeed the dacha in Soviet times is similar to the allotment in some Western countries, normally free, to citizens by the local government for gardening or growing vegetables for personal consumption.
Since some time avery my journey to Russia I visit “dacha” of my family. In autumn the country landscapes are coloured by the red and yellow leaves of the trees.

Still-lifes

Usually you will see big and small plats with fruit or vegetables and more in the kitchens of muscovites. These place tell a lot about people who live in there. Here are some still-lifes drawn in different places..

Moscow City

It is one of the most recent and ambitious parts of Moscow. MIBC (Moscow International Business Center), also known as Moscow-City is situated about 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) west of Red Square. Here you will find the headquarters of the banks, web companies like Yandex, Mail.ru, Kaspersky and the luxury apartments and restaurants. But you will unlikely find average muscovites in this major financial centre in Europe.

Selfy time

When you come to Moscow there is no way to avoid the places for postcards and films. Muscovites unlikely come here often because there are a lot of tourists. You are absolutely justified to take some photos with Red Square, Kremlin, University of Moscow and other monuments and places of interest.

Ready to take off

The trip takes almost whole day and consists in waiting most of the time. The time passed standing in ine to check-in, passport control, in boarding zone, in flight for me is an occasion to sketch a chaotic life of the airport and aircraft. By the way, if you want to save time and money make the COVID test directly in the airport. It takes just 1 hour.
Here are some pictures of Malpensa (Italy) and Sheremetievo (Russia) airoports:

It’s time to take off and switch off the devices… see you next trip!

p.s. How I did it.

The story of Moscow fall sketchbook 2021 started in April of the same year when my father passed away. Among his belongings I found an almost blanc agenda of 1995. So I decided to use that notebook to tell Moscow as it seen by a muscovite. The pages are covered with transparent acrylic paint to give a right space to the original page format on the background and the sketch in front line.

If you want to receive the original handmade art postcards from my tours just click here and be a part of the exclusive supporter’s club!

Follow the work in progress and real time news on my social accounts
FaceBook, Twitter , Instagram , Tumbler and Pinterest. Watch my videos and reels on Youtube and support my art on Patreon.

inktober 2021

Inktober in october 2021

Inktober in october 2021. Also this year October becomes INKtober. 31 days, 31 words, 31 ink illustrations. Are you redy? Let’s go!

Версия на русском языкеLeggi in Italiano

This year all the illustrations are made in surrealism style and are inked with black and coloured pens. Every drawing of this sketchbook contains a sphere of glass.

Follow the work in progress and real time news on my social accounts
FaceBook, Twitter , Instagram , Tumbler and Pinterest. Watch my videos and reels on Youtube and support my art on Patreon.

If you have questions, comments or thoughts to share click here and write me. I will be happy to reply.

Home made Sketchbook Yulia A Korneva

Home made: lockdown in art

“Home made: lockdown in art” is a sketchbook made of more than 30 illustrations 17,5 x 6,5 cm drawn from 10th March to 10th May 2020. Some artworks of this series will be on the “Matite in viaggio 2020” collective in Venice (Italy).

Read this article in Italian

Is it possible to travel even when you stay home to stay safe? Is it possible during the lockdown to go through the home space to go forward? I say “yes” and accept the challenge!
My lockdown started 10th march 2020. I kept on sketching all that time. This is the chronicle of my interior journey to the far and close places I have never seen but I would like to.

Don’t miss the limited edition capsule collection of apparel and accessories from t-shirts to phone cases all with the artworks of “Home Made” sketchbook.

Let me introduce my cats. Their names are Susan and Brie and as well as us they shall stay at home for the lockdown. They pass almost all day on the carpet. Looking at them I see the Egyptian sphinxes. There must be a reason why people revere the cats since the ancient times.

It’s Flash-mob time! There are 2 or 3 flash-mobs every day: first we sing to be brave, than we applaud to the doctors, than we dance, than we place music instruments and make noise … It seams to be on carnival of Rio de Janeiro but we are on the balcony of our homes. It is lockdown, there is COVID-19 outside.

Cactus are the unique plants to survive on the balcony that watch south. This little cactus in the spring sun seams to remember its motherland: the desert. It would be great to go their to sketch that surreal lunar landscapes live.

A puddle on the terrace of my home generously left by the huge Turin rain reflects some weeds. It seams to me to see the fishermen houses of Marano Lagunare near Venice reflected in the water.

The face masks are scarce, so I made them for my family. Finishing the last one the memories of my travel to Turkey with my mother back to my mind. I remember the images of belly dancers with the transparent veils on their faces.

On the balcony in a sunny spring day I talk to my neighbour, during the lockdown a balcony became a sort of social club where to meet people and talk awhile. It sems to be in a typical town of south Italy. I have never been to Naples, but I would like to go there one day.

Colors of the wine

Colors of the wine is the project made of 10 pages of watercolors with red wines of Italy and the stories of the regions the come from. The project will be a part of a special selection at “Matite in viaggio 2020” collective in Venice called “Wine civilization in Italy, in Europe, in the world”.

Leggi in Italiano

The project
Every wine has its own character, destiny, perfume and colour; the taste comes after.
Some wines like Freisa, Nebbiolo, Sangiovese take their names from the wine grapes; other wines like Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino, Barolo has taken their names from the places whey come from.
The landscapes, people, culture and traditions – everything is connected in the amazing harmony.
This magic connection between places and wines gave origins to the idea to paint the wine places of Italy with only one colour: the colour of wine.

Piedmont is the region of Italy that gives origins to the great wine grapes. Here Nebbiolo, Barbera, Freisa are grown. Let’s discover their colours and their mother lands with Langa hills running far far away.

piedmont landscape watercolor with red wines
Piedmont (Italy) landscape watercolor with red wines

Barbera grapes is believed to have originated in the hills of Monferrato in central Piemonte, Italy, where it has been known from the thirteenth century.
Barbera del Monferrato takes its name and origins from these antique wine grape.

Piedmont landscape with Barbera red wine
Piedmont landscape watercolor with Barbera red wine

Bonarda Piemontese, now officially listed simply as Bonarda but also known as Bonarda di Chieri and Bonarda del Monferrato is a red wine grape variety that is grown in the north-western region of Piedmont. Today is found in scattered plantings along the left bank of the Tanaro river near Govone.
Bonarda Piemonte is the wine that took its name from this kind of grape.

Piedmont landscape with Bonarda red wine
Piedmont landscape watercolor with Bonarda red wine

Freisa is a red Italian wine grape variety grown in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, primarily in Monferrato and in the Langhe, but also further north in the provinces of Turin and Biella. Freisa is a vigorous and productive vine whose round, blue-black grapes are harvested in early October.
Freisa d’Asti takes its name from the grape and the land where it grows.

Piedmont landscape with Freisa red wine
Piedmont landscape watercolor with Freisa red wine

Tuscany with its reach landscapes from green and blue Maremma to the desert fields near Florence and hills of Chianti region is the land of Sangiovesse wine grape that gives origins to numerous wins from Brunello di Montalcino to Chianti.

Tuscany landscape watercolor with brunello di montalcino
Tuscany Italy landscape watercolor with brunello di montalcino

Brunello di Montalcino is a red DOCG Italian wine produced in the vineyards surrounding the town of Montalcino, in the province of Siena, located about 80 km south of Florence in the Tuscany wine region. Brunello, a diminutive of Bruno (“brown”), is the name that was given locally to what was believed to be an individual grape variety grown in Montalcino. In Montalcino the name Brunello evolved into the designation of the wine produced with 100% Sangiovese grape.

Tuscany landscape with brunello di montalcino
Tuscany Italy landscape watercolor with brunello di montalcino

Follow the work in progress and real time news on my social accounts
FaceBook, Twitter , Instagram , Tumbler and Pinterest. Watch my videos and reels on Youtube and support my art on Patreon.

If you have questions, comments or ideas to share click here and write me. I will be happy to reply.