Radiance

20x20 sm

colored paper, acrylic paints, ink, gold

Walking in The Night

10.7x14 sm
colored paper, acrylic paints, ink, gold

My freshest one. Inspired with my new paints and pens and (of course!) cannot express enough excitement from my new brushes! This work is an experiment to show more of a 3-D shapes then in my previous ones.

Allied

Pink in a Boat

 15x15 sm
colored paper, acrylic paints, ink, gold

Circulation

15x15 sm
colored paper, acrylic paints, ink, gold

Fish

15x11 sm
colored paper, acrylic paints, ink, bronze
Private collection

Flying Elephant

Private collection

Guardian For An Angel

Do you believe in your Guardian Angel?

I do. And I feel our Guardian Angels have lots of work in our today's busy World taking as good care about us as they can.

But who will look after them? There should be somebody to give every support to our Caretakers. Somebody to teach them, understand and even prevent from some decisions.

Guardian. Guardian for an Angel.

Publication in "Photomasterskaya"

Very happy to share news: "Everything about computer collage and photo editing 2" - this book is collection of best articles of magazine "Photomasterskaya" created specially for photographers, designers and illustrators. Special edition #2/2008
http://www.photomasterskaya.ru/

Flight of Fancy

Happy to introduce to you my new work, "Flight of Fancy". I am enjoying this days with little different technique from before and liking it a lot, can't stop! :) Less sleep, lots of thoughts, I love this times, Creation Times, when fancy is troubling you 24/7. Inspiration to everybody and Enjoy!
Truly yours, Yuliya

 P.S. Traditionally fragments in bigger resolution (2 times smaller then original Art work)

Wishful

Sometimes it happens that Art works live their own life despite the fact that Artist brought Art work to live. This is what happened with this Art work for me, it was developing on it's own, and it was quite fun to see how it was evolving all the way I was creating it. Enjoy :) Truly yours, Yuliya

Resolution of this fragments are 2 times smaller then original Art work, but they can give an idea of the detail level.

Aloo Gobi

If you knew me a few years before you would hardly believe that person like me can have passion for cooking. You would even claim with confidence that such thing is completely impossible. It is truly beyond the question that all the things in the world are relative! :) I am in love with cooking now! Can't help it! Cannot resist any kitchen shop on my way, cannot resist trying new recipes and all the time inventing my own recipes and testing all "what ifs" in merging different tastes and ingredients! I opened for myself unknown magic - C o o k i n g. And! It is inspiring me even in My Art! Happy to introduce to you first interaction of Cooking and Art. Aloo Gobi. It is very simple delicious and spicy dish from Indian cuisine, one of the chosen favorites in my house since I made it first time. Enjoy and Bon Appétit! :)

Ingredients:

    * 2 cups of cauliflower (cut into small florets)
    * 2 medium potatoes (cubed into bite sized pieces)
    * 1/2 inch shredded ginger
    * 2 teaspoons coriander powder
    * 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
    * 1/4 teaspoon red chilly powder
    * 3 tablespoons water
    * 3 tablespoons oil
    * Pinch of Asafetida (Hing)
    * 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
    * 2 green chilies, shredded
    * 2 bay leaves
    * 0.5 teaspoon salt (to taste)
    * 1 teaspoon amchoor (mango powder)
    * 2 tablespoons of chopped cilantro (green coriander)
    * 1/4 cup water as needed

Method

In a small bowl, mix the shredded ginger, coriander powder, red chilly powder, turmeric, and 3 tablespoons of water to make a paste. Making a paste with the spices will prevent the spices from burning.

Heat 3 tablespoons of oil in a pan. Add hing and cumin seeds to the hot oil. When you hear the cumin seeds crack, add the bay leaves and green chilies and stir for a few seconds.

Next, add the paste and stir for a minute. Then add cauliflower, potatoes, 2 tablespoons of water and salt. Mix well. Cover the pan and let it cook on medium heat for about 25 to 30 minutes until the vegetables are tender. Make sure to stir gently every 3 to 4 minutes. Lastly, add the mango powder and fresh cilantro (green coriander). Mix everything and cover for a minute. Adjust the salt to your taste.

Variations

Add some green peas and/or sliced red bell peppers. The red bell peppers should be added at the end of the recipe as they cook quickly.

Hobby Management or Happy Birthday :)

Greetings to all who came to visit my page in this Happy Day - My Birthday! Didn't I tell you, how i like birthdays? :) I guess I mentioned it somewhere last year... :) Anyway - I love when Birthday comes! Love, Love, Love it! Enjoyment and happiness are overfilling me today! And for this Birthday I have gift for you: I dated my new Art Work in Linear Magic series - Hobby Management. I feel most of you will understand what I meant by this Art Work - I am not the only person with more then one hobby :) It is so tough to choose what you want to do sometimes! Everything at once! Why can't I? :) I wish - I love all my hobbies and enjoy each as if it is my only! I am faithfully dedicated and teared apart :) - though in same time by some kind of blessing I am existing with all of them in harmony and peace for quite a long time! But sometimes! :) It is sooo tough to choose... ;)

Publication in "180 style art fashion design"

Lucky and happy to share this news: http://180mag.ca/0807/yuliya/yuliya.html

C. Second

Happy to introduce new Artwork from Linear Magic series. It came from idea that inside each person, even very closed, quite and uncommunicable there is one naughty and creative creature, full of emotions, ideas, thoughts and opinions. And anybody can see it... Enjoy, Yours truly.

C. First

I missed very much feeling of using traditional mediums, last weeks hunger to draw was following me everywhere! :) And I gave up finally, though it is little tough to find spare few hours for person like me. But it is much harder try to resist this hunger, so I had to take my favorites pens and... here we go, my newborn Art :) Enjoy.

Heart Thief

It is one of my favorite times in a year - New Year's Eve! Reviewing what was done, planning what will be done in New Year... New hopes and dreams :) It is always very happy moments! This year was amazing and full of exiting, spectacular, significant events for me. With this work I would like to express sincere gratitude to this 2007 Year, which will stay in my memory forever and meet New, 2008 Year with burst of energy, new dreams, full of strength to implement all of them! I wish all of you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Let all your wishes come true and luck always be on your side!

Take care and God bless you!

Yours truly, Yuliya

As usual enjoy with fragments of this work in bigger size and not usual - check out evolution of "Heart Thief", 4 wip.

R.R.R.

About year ago I was leading very interesting full life and was drawing all the time to capture my impressions. One moment touched me very closely and I started to do this work. I almost finished it in one go. One thing what was left was tree. I was trying a lot of variations but even one was not right for my idea... During this year sometimes I was coming back to my R.R.R. work and trying more and more to catch this fleeing tree, but it was elusive! Finally, I got such a strong feeling that, yes, I know how it should look! Yes, I am ready to do it! And I sat and spend all the time I had without taking breath and created the tree with all my confidence. So now it is done. I am happy and satisfied and I can show my work to you. All opinions are welcome; I will appreciate any comments or critiques. Enjoy) Truly yours, Yuliya.

High resolution fragments here are twice smaller then original, in spite of this level of details in this work can be seen.

Care

Dedicated . . .

7 hours between flights and new pens )

or How to to change boring flight transfer for the better :) My new pens are beating everything, Sakura forever :)

Workshop and Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, CA

 

I found out about the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest from my very good friends. This was my first participation in L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest and it was really big surprise for me to win :) I never was thinking about being an illustrator that is why I am so happy to see that my first try is so successful!I am from Ukraine, from capital city Kiev. I am professional Artist; I have honors masters degree in Fine Arts. My Art starts from my parents. They have been encouraged my painting since I was a small child. They gave me a good education and thanks to them I became an Artist. Nobody ever inspired me. I have been doing my paintings since I remember myself. It is like hunger – if I am stopping painting for some time, I am starting to miss it very much! I can't imagine myself not drawing something. Painting for me is the way to express myself, share my feelings and find new good friends; and I got to experience this at the amazing week I attended workshop and awards ceremony in Los Angeles, CA. I met a lot of talented people; I have learned many new and useful things about Art and Attitude. I received invaluable professional advices from our wise instructors. It was a great honor to have such talented artists as Ron and Val Lindahn, Steven Hickman, Judith Miller as our instructors in workshop! I saw great team, wonderful people who are helping to young talented Artists from all over the world to build successful future and to show Art to the World! I feel I am very lucky that I got a chance to meet this people in my life! Evening of Awards Ceremony was on 24th of August and I was extremely proud to receive my Award on the eve of Ukraine’s Independence Day. Winning in the Contest means for me first of all that the way I am going is right. I was always dreaming to have as a profession doing my personal Art and now I am more then ever close to my dream. This week will stay in my memory for whole my life as an unforgettable experience and happy moment of my life! Thanks to this amazing week I have been charged and now feel like working even harder than before! I would like to say huge thank you to all Contest team! Guys, you are doing great job! )

Sunday's Child

I like when Birthday comes - excellent reason to celebrate and enjoy with beloved family and friends ) Good luck to everybody! Yours truly, Yuliya.

Tutankhamun

I did this work for L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest. It was printed in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 23. This is my first try in doing illustrations. It was interesting experience for me to implement somebody’s idea in life, to understand this story as if it is my own thoughts and feelings. In my illustration according to given story I have shown that how King Tutankhamun is used as a doll without paying attention that he is alive and has his own feelings and wishes. Character above him is collective image of all the qualities of typical modern man today influenced by money, lust for power and using other people for own profit. In short I am showing the whole tragic situation of a King from the past struggling in future. While doing my artwork I was thinking of illustrating whole story without choosing some particular scene because I was impressed with the complete idea. Hope this try was successful. ) As usually, I appreciate any comments and critiques. ))

publication in "Photomasterskaya"(Russia)

I am so happy with this publication!

I am a WINNER in the 4th quarter L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest!

Today I received this letter:

Dear Yuliya,

CONGRATULATIONS! You are a WINNER in the 4th quarter L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest!
You will be receiving your prize and will be able to attend the 5 day illustrator's workshop and the awards ceremony this summer.
Again, congratulations!

Sincerely,

Joni Labaqui
Contest Director

I am so happy about this!
http://wotfblog.galaxypress.com/2007/03/art-of-yuliya-kostyuk.html

Sunlight

This is another one my work creating process. Like I have already said in previous work, I believe, that for each painting need to be born a completely new process. This is light variation of this process. I did this work in Photoshop. Enjoy :) Yours truly, Yuliya.

Workflow

I wanted to show my work creating process. Really, I believe, that for each painting need to be born a completely new process. This is dark variation of this process. Enjoy :) Yours truly, Yuliya.

Aviators

This is aviators. Enjoy :) Yours truly, Yuliya.

At The Mercy Of Heaven

There is no escaping fate. I believe in it. Enjoy :) Yours truly, Yuliya.

Easy Walk

I was in a good mood during painting this work. Hope you will like it like I do. :) Enjoy :) Truly yours, Yuliya.

Dinner

Sometimes you have to eat somebody for not to be eaten. Enjoy :) Yours truly, Yuliya.

The Moon God

This is an ancient Ukrainian god of moon. I had studied this subject in institute. Mythology always has something mystery and it is very interesting and close to me. Enjoy :) Yours truly, Yuliya.

Chasing

Hi there!

This work had been frozen for 3 months and finally and luckily my Time let me finished this work. This is voyage. I thougth about colours and shapes doing this work. This one of my favorite parts in painting, like meccano. Meccano is helping to keep your mind blank. Similar filings I am having doing work like this. I've been to other country, my inner world had been changed during this months. I dedicate it to spring, which came at our place not so long time ago (it’s very beautiful and warm outdoors, my soul is happy at this :) and also to my friends Sergey and Sasha Kharuk, who are The Great Artists, thanks to them I started to do body not as “fresh” as I did before in my works :) I used a lot of photo peaces, Photoshop CS and Wacom Graphire4. Enjoy :)

Ensnaring

Regards to everybody!
This is “Ensnaring”. Name was born from the idea “to ensnare the fortune”. My creature didn't have lamp tail before, but it wanted to eat, and was have to grow up that tail. I am totally convinced that everybody has “devices” to realize any of their dreams. If u are in need of some personal quality or got lost in span of time u CAN catch the fortune, you just have to realize that everything is in your hands. I changed a lot of things in that way, and can tell you truly – it wasn't easy! But I am very proud of myself since I've did it. And that feeling is like narcotic for me now :). Hope my idea will help somebody with realization of secret dream :).
I was very inspired during whole work process and did this work without taking a breath. Any candid critique good or bad will be appreciated. Yours truly, Yuliya.

Snail

This is a Night snail. Tools: Photoshop, Wacom. Enjoy :)

Scientist

This is collective image of people who is interested in creating something new. What will happen with butterfly? This interest moves the development of whole world, I am sure! There is laziness of course, which is also engine of progress :) but the real hero of my story is exactly interest! Enjoy :)

Fishing

I used a lot of photo pieces, Photoshop and Wacom to create this work. I would like to dedicate it to my brother, who showed me what fishing is :). Enjoy :)

A Toy for The Sun

Successful Hunting

Hi there!

I paint my cat with mouses on this work :) I used Photoshop CS and Wacom Graphire 4. Have a pleasant review. :)

Hamster

Hare, The Cyclist