Hi yall,

First of all, I wanted to tell you sorry that you couldn't see my works on time but I still believe you can watch and comment them.

Secondly, thanks for having this wonderful class. I really enjoy having these talented classmates next to me. Your critiques and comments were important for me. I improved my art skills and english as well just because of you all.  

And Hagit, I liked you as my art teacher even though I got unexpected grade. I cannot imagine another instructor but you. You helped us to look into a painting with thoughtful meanings from tiny details to painter's love. Thank you so much.

Artist Statement

     I wanted to create something that I’ve never done before, so the flowers appeal to me as a subject. Hmm, flowers? We have huge diversity in the different kind of flowers, almost 260,000 species in the world. And here I was asking myself what kind of them is related to me that I could be inspired of. The tulips came to my mind - favorite flowers of my grandmother. This is how my first painting “Tulips” appeared. In my second painting “Cacti” there is the flower called Xanthium Spinosum (that is not kind of cactuses, as I learned later). However, when I looked at its picture first, it seemed to me a cactus. It attracted me by having the combination of these long sharp spines with tender green leaves that I can see in my grandmother as symbol of endurance and warmth. 

    The style that I used in my work “Flowers” is abstract realism. Painting the flowers, I used the different dark and light colors side by side to create depth and the technique of smooth transition from one color to another on the background to make it lighter. On my painting “Cacti” I expressed the natural color of a cactus using the green color as major on the background and partly on the flower. My painting “Tulips” expresses the love to my grandmother. The reason why I chose the orange tulips is a symbol of a perfect love.