Paper "Baohong" 300 gr., watercolor. Size 37*50 cm. plein air in August 2024.
The urban environment is undoubtedly my strong point. Architecture of any style fascinates and inspires me to create graphics and painting. Burgas is multifaceted and diverse, but there is the most "urban" place in this city. This is a small square in front of the city hall. It has everything: a monumental city hall building, a fountain, the upward stream of which makes noise day and night, bright flowers, ornamental shrubs, a gray Bulgarian birch, a drinking fountain and many, many random passers-by.
It is amazing, but this time we were lucky enough to live right above this square on the top floor of an old Burgas house. So we did not have to walk far - it was enough to just go down the steep winding stairs and settle down somewhere in the park so that you could sit.
During these two hours that I spent at the painting, dozens of different people came up to the drinking fountain and then to me: a disabled person in a wheelchair, a mother with a small child, pensioners slowly strolling along the main pedestrian street of Burgas, Aleksandrovskaya (named after the Russian Tsar Alexander I, the Liberator). BUT I was waiting for the one (or those) who would match the environment in color. And finally, two gypsy cleaners in their bright orange vests came up to the fountain. One of them remained a bright spot in the painting. Of course, noticing my intent gaze, they both came up to me and began to talk, looking at my sheet.
Everything in this painting reflects Burgas in August. The light, almost transparent city hall building, the bright red flowers, the bright orange vest of the gypsy, the thick, dark green foliage of the tree hanging over me and helping me with its dense shadow, and the light, transparent foliage of a lonely birch tree fluttering in the wind like a thin woman's dress.
