valeriya volkova! - www.valtastic.com

swettas poster

2011-12-07T16:08:00.000-05:00

Hey there! I made this sweet poster of some sweaters (probably Cosby inspired again). Buy it here: http://society6.com/valtastic/Sweater-Poster_Print

And speaking of Cosby sweaters, I had so many awesome screengrabs of them I had to make a tumblr : http://cosbyfly.tumblr.com/

pizza and some houses

2011-12-07T16:02:00.000-05:00

shawn and seymour

2011-11-02T14:55:00.000-04:00

been doing some little watercolor/acrylic paintings on this stack of 5"x7" watercolor paper I got! check these fellas out. they're rocking cosby sweaters because guess what i've been watching? thanks netflix.

buy stuff

2011-10-10T02:14:00.000-04:00

HEY GUYS did you know you can buy prints of my work and even paintings online??

http://www.mammothcollection.com/collections/vendors?q=Valeriya+Volkova

http://society6.com/valtastic

http://www.etsy.com/shop/valtastic

patterns

2011-10-10T02:01:00.000-04:00

some patterns i've made recently!!

6 fine gentlemen

2011-10-08T02:47:00.000-04:00

six little portraits - pencil, watercolor, acrylic, ink - each is about 5x5 inches

a selection of monsters

2011-10-08T02:43:00.000-04:00

over the summer I drew a lot of wacky little monsters:

then I got really into working with colored inks and making these rorschach ink blotty things, and that's how these fellas were born:

did these last week

2010-01-21T04:55:00.001-05:00

paintingsss

2010-01-15T17:09:00.000-05:00

some paintings from the past summer/fall:

triptych

2010-01-15T16:54:00.000-05:00

this is sort of old - from senior project last year. i never really finished it, which is kind of a shame. i can't go back to paintings i haven't worked on in months. it just doesn't feel right, ya know?

letters

2009-09-25T23:56:00.001-04:00

paintings

2009-08-24T04:56:00.000-04:00

this painting is on an old book cover and pretty much started out as a use for leftover paint, but i dig it.

this little guy is a bear chair. he ain't bothering anybody.

sketchbook

2009-08-20T14:36:00.000-04:00

far rockaway:

not far rockaway:

doodle aphabet

2009-05-28T14:20:00.000-04:00

i doodled this alphabet yesterday.

sketchbook

2009-05-19T20:11:00.000-04:00

paintings

2009-04-28T18:25:00.000-04:00

i scanned some paintings this morning after not sleeping for like, 404986 hours. that is not cool. me and sleep used to be friends but it got real jealous of my relationship with work.

this is an editorial thing about this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23468364/
i don't really like this one because the composition's all weird, but i doubt it's going to get fixed.

sleeping giants

2009-04-23T17:26:00.000-04:00

i just finished this painting for senior project this morning! sweet. this was inspired by a story my friend faye told me about when she lived in st john when she was little and thought that the hills were giant people sleeping under blankets.

i need to start coming up with snappier names for paintings.

some paintings

2009-04-20T23:24:00.000-04:00

did you guys know that this island is floating above the earth? that balloon is filled with happiness!

a couple months ago i had to do an assignment based on my favorite song:
"hey" by the pixies

hey
been trying to meet you
hey
must be a devil between us
or whores in my head
whores at my door
whores in my bed
but hey
where have you been
if you go i will surely die
we're chained
uh said the man to the lady
uh said the lady to the man she adored
and the whores like a choir
go uh all night
and mary ain't you tired of this
uh is the sound
that the mother makes when the baby breaks
we're chained

sketchbooks

2009-04-16T02:03:00.000-04:00

the fish drawing is from this class i'm taking, drawing on location, where we go to a different place in nyc every week. this week we went to chinatown. then there's a cake from a sketchbook i had a couple months ago, and some totem poles that i've been doodling everywhere.

some work for senior project this semester

2009-04-09T23:09:00.000-04:00

this is an editorial about post partum depression.

for some story about water or pools or something.

what i did on my winter vacation.

more monster alphabet

2009-04-09T23:02:00.000-04:00

children's book

2009-04-08T15:47:00.000-04:00

these are some spreads i did for my children's book class last semester. it was a monster alphabet. the cyclops is my favorite. i want to redo the computer type on this eventually.

this guy is a painting for senior project last semester. inside out apartment building.

more stuff from last semester

2009-04-08T15:42:00.000-04:00

from survey last semester

2009-04-07T17:18:00.000-04:00

today i got a bunch of paintings back from the comd department, who were hiding them in a sad dark closet. they were there as punishment because they did not win awards. here are some of them!

senior project

2008-10-28T01:02:00.000-04:00

my senior project is vaguely about buildings or cities or homes or something.

2008-10-28T00:34:00.000-04:00

i don't ever update this but that's okay because no one ever looks at it!
here are some editorial things i've been doing.

new sketchbook.

2008-06-29T17:30:00.000-04:00

eh.

louis louis

2008-06-19T00:52:00.000-04:00

birthday party aftermath

more houses

2008-06-19T00:16:00.000-04:00

houses

2008-06-10T01:36:00.000-04:00

i've been really into houses lately.