Teaching to Love.
Sketch

13x18
oil, canvas panel

Alexandra's first year

Pencil on paper

Kissing Rocks
51x41
Oil, canvas panel, gold.

Dedicating this work to all those who've ever been indifferent to the weak one; who sees it's easy to reject, easy just to say "no", to turn his back away. This year was not easy for me: I needed support much more than I usually do, so I had to ask for some help. Surprisingly, those who are close to me, became cold as rocks to my entreaties.

Pregnant. 2009
50x60
Oil on canvas, one layer.

"Tsarevich Alexei Romanov"

Acrylic, canvas
50x60

On 17 July 1918 young Tsarevich Alexei was brutally murdered together with his royal family by the Bolsheviks. It was unnecessarily to kill the children; they did not represent any political threat. This painting is dedicated to the children who been tortured endlessly and died due to barbaric regimes - their ideologies, and the misuse of religion such as Bolshevism, National Socialism and Radical Islam. This portrait is a symbol of my censure of a children murder in Beslan school siege in 2004. There is shame upon all murderers and terrorists, - now and in history - and all those who have and continue to glorify them.

Playing Drunk
40 x 60
Oil, gold, silver acrylic, canvas.

Stupid things we do when we drink. Furthermore, then we look awful. Others can see what you usually hide while sober. You feel the embarrassment and behave worse and worse, start some stupid game that might change your life. Therefore it is very important to have someone nearby taking care of you while you do that. Someone close and faithful to help you out in time.

6 weeks

First time I saw you; I was so shocked and scared for you, you little...Hang up there, shaking from the light, and like saying us: Hi! Yeah, I live here now! Warm heart beating fast, and you were smaller than a centimeter. 2009

"Whoopi Goldberg"

Oil on board
24x30

A copy made in colors from the pencil sketch "Lovers, from the Right" (1914) by G. Klimt. Oil on canvas. 50x60

40 x 20
oil, canvas

Inspired by one of my favorite Israeli books - "Badulina" by Gabi Nitzan

"A Midsummer
Night's Dream"
60 x 50
oil, canvas

Inspired by William Shakespeare's romantic comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream", ", wherein a beautiful queen of fairies Titania is falling in love with bewitched Bottom It happens to almost everyone of us at least once in a life time, when some weird forces push us into obviously erroneous relationship. That is when we say "What a monster I was dating with!"

Self-portrait. 2002.
Pencil on paper

This is a copy by pencil from the sketch of fragment of Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam".
2003. Pencil on paper.

"The Queen Mother"
40 x 30
oil, canvas

The dress and jewelry that the Queen is wearing are products of my imagination. The magnificent dress and the convex sleeves reflect glory and luxury of royal blood.

On this work I was practicing techniques by copying with the pencil faces from the newspapers and magazines.
2001. Pencil on paper.

"We Cling Up On Gods We Don't Know"
70 x 35
oil, canvas

There is a very long history of the heaven-religion started before even the Old Testament, which is coming from the Sumer civilization - the earliest on our planet. As an example of our "holy ignorance" I've painted one deity - Gades, who according to the legend went into a battle against his brother for the throne in the heavenly world. Gades failed and his trophy was the "lowest world" - where we people live. He created a first model of the human being, taught him agriculture, sciences and how to survive. Same as many other ancient deities Gades had horns on his head. Later "the lowest world" started to associate with a hell and Gades with the devil. We have been at war with each other for longer than five thousand years trying to prove who is closer to the True, declaring gods without knowing them at all.

"Jewish Wedding"
80 x 60
Oil, canvas

Jewish wedding ceremony takes months of full-time preparation. On the picture is a big white "chupa", the canopy, which is a symbol of the home to be built and shared by the couple. Rabbi is holding the marriage contract, which is a very important document protecting the rights and the well being of the bride. I've represented the most disturbing and crucial moment of the Jewish wedding ceremony - the glass breaking. The groom has to shatter the glass with his foot in a memory of the Temple in Jerusalem, and often it symbolizes the marriage success.

Pascal 4 creature
30 x 20
2004
At the evenings from the Pascal 4 I was observing some interesting creatures looking like half dogs and half foxes. They were moving very fast, behaved funny, jumping out of bushes and walking near our fence. In twilight it was hard to understand what were they, so I just painted my personal impression about it.

"Between Patriarchy And Matriarchy"
30 x 30
oil, canvas

The picture is a copy made during the art lessons in 2003.
40 x 30. coal, paper.

Money? What Money?
40 x 30
oil, canvas