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The Fight: Painted Abstract by Alexandra Cook

“Shadows of a Snowflake” by Linandara

Easter cards

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Russian Orthodox Easter Card with Eggs by Linandara

Have been sold. Thank you very much for buyers from Toronto & Warrington!

Alexandra Cook Из недавних путешествий

Post tenebras lux - В гостях у бабушки

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Я хотя и пытаюсь всем на свете заниматься, но одновременно никак не получается. Недели две назад все читала и писала блоги, а тут засела как бы работать и ничем другим не хотела заниматься. Еще у меня был сезон фотоохоты за мороженными подснежниками... ...

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Alexandra Cook

Happy Easter Pascha Card in Russian from Zazzle.co.uk

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24 Hour Dispatch to the UK on most orders. Happy Easter Pascha Card in Russian created by Linandara. This design is available in several sizes and is totally customizable.

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Alexandra Cook Playing with kids toys...

Furry Abstract Fine Art Prints, Canvas & Framed Wall Art at Imagekind.com

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Furry Abstract by Alexandra Cook

Yesterday at 4:02pm ·

Alexandra Cook added work to redbubble.com

Marshland in early spring

Dried last year reeds lit by spring sunshine and turned into gold... Original in oil pastel on textured paper, A4 (about 30 x 21 cm), for sale "here":http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16...

Yesterday at 2:22pm

Alexandra Cook Print for sale

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Yesterday at 1:07pm ·

Alexandra Cook The Rise of a Giant Fantasy Artwork

The Rise of a Giant - Original Fantasy Space Artwork in Pastel : Linandara - ArtFire Painting

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Take yourself on a journey nobody made before... An original one of a kind imaginary artwork. An orange gas giant planet rising ower its forested moon

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Alexandra Cook Sea Glass Leaf

Teardrop Leaf Seaglass Gypsy Mermaid's Pendant by Linandara

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This is a part of my Gypsy Mermaid collection, which is all about uncharted seas, empty beaches, pebbles, driftwood, and even mysterious water-polished

Yesterday at 8:42am ·

Alexandra Cook New Card

Happy Easter Pascha Card in Russian and English from Zazzle.co.uk

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24 Hour Dispatch to the UK on most orders. Happy Easter Pascha Card in Russian and English created by Linandara. This design is available in several sizes and is totally customizable.

Fri at 5:03pm ·

Alexandra Cook Snowdrops

Snowdrops by River Hafren Mousemat from Zazzle.co.uk

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24 Hour Dispatch to the UK on most orders. Snowdrops by River Hafren Mousemat created by Linandara. Customize this design with your own text and pictures or order as shown.

Fri at 4:29pm ·

Alexandra Cook Daffodil

Daffodil Spring Button Badge from Zazzle.co.uk

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24 Hour Dispatch to the UK on most orders. Daffodil Spring Button Badge created by Linandara. This design is available on many different sizes and shapes of buttons.

Fri at 4:28pm ·

Alexandra Cook Print at DeviantArt:

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Fri at 2:43pm ·

Alexandra Cook Prints for sale on Imagekind now.

Dacass. A Mountain Dwelling Fine Art Prints, Canvas & Framed Wall Art at Imagekind.com

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Dacass. A Mountain Dwelling by Alexandra Cook

Fri at 1:30pm ·

Alexandra Cook Trying Redbubble T-shirts

"Nepal Cinquefoil Flower T-Shirt" T-Shirt Design by Linandara [4761962-1] - RedBubble

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Buy 'Nepal Cinquefoil Flower T-Shirt' by Linandara as a T-Shirt [4761962-1]

Fri at 12:31pm ·

Alexandra Cook added work to redbubble.com

Blue Flower T Shirt

Another print from my painting of a single flower of Potentilla nepalensis, common name: Nepal Cinquefoil (originally watercolour, gouache, pencils, pen and pigment ink). This time in Blue.

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Alexandra Cook

Art - paintings & drawings

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Alexandra Cook My page

Welcome to Alexandra Cook's (aka Linandara) Page (Emerald World - Alexandra Cook's Artist Gallery)

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Alexandra Cook My Zazzle

Linandara: Home: Zazzle.co.uk Store

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Hello, my name is Alexandra Cook, I'm an artist and here you can buy products based on my original artworks. You are welcome to suggest me an item if you can't find it in my store. My other site is http://sites.google.com/site/linandara/

Thu at 12:58pm ·

Alexandra Cook added work to redbubble.com

Folk Festival

During the Smithonian Folk Festival in Washington DC few years ago, a woman was demonstrating her embroidery skills. Originally done with acrylic on canvas. Edited a bit in Photoshop.

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Анахронистам

Вне время доброта и гений, и все, что люди сотворят - лишь вереница отражений и повторений вечный ряд. Ничто...

March 2 at 2:10pm

Alexandra Cook added work to redbubble.com

Sunflower & Lemon Still Life

An oil and acrylic painting on canvas done with the thick brushstrokes. Picturing a sunflower, a red onion and a lemon.

March 2 at 12:12pm

Something for the St David Day

Daffodil Spring Poster by Linandara
But there is no daffodils in Newtown this year yet - too cold. Snowdrops are out.
I've found yet another print selling outlet: DEVIANTART

Selling art

I've discovered a new print selling outlet, called Imageking, and so far its looks well designed and strait forward. Anyone can sell photos and artwork here, which is good, but also because of this one has to spend long time before finding good quality artwork. So far, selling art on Etsy and Zazzle have been the best options for me.

Ebay UK used to be very good for selling art but recently they started to treat the sellers worse and worse increasing the fees and inventing ridicules rules all the time. Funny enough few days ago they blamed me for breaching the copyright and selling an authorized copies of... my own novel... Any attempt to reason with them fails as they don't bother reading messages. I really hope somebody invents a user-friendly online auction site one day...

Also recently I've visited an exhibition of Michael Brennand - Wood's artwoks. Most of them appear to be like beautiful vases with flowers but when one comes to look close one realises that they made up of quite sinister details (like skeletons, bullets, etc). They all have got some meaning and make you think, but I just wonder if its right to make people feel attracted to something on the evil side...

Gypsy Mermaid

Sorry I haven't been writing too much here as I've got very involved with my Russian blog.

Apart from few new drawings I was experimenting with a bit of shell, textile & sea glass jewellery which I'm starting putting in my Artfire and Etsy shops.

The name Gypsy Mermaid is partly related to how this looks like, and partly to a song by M. Scherbakov.

Art Calendars for 2010

Distant Lands Fine Art Calendar by Linandara

My Russia by A.CookMy Russia by A.Cook (calendar) Print: £12.49 This is 14-month calendar for 2010 illustrated with my own paintings and drawings dedicated to landscapes, people and buildings of my native Russia. Contains British and US holidays. If you would like other / custom holidays please let me know before buying and I'll create additional version for you. I hope you'll enjoy my calendar!

Distant Lands by A.CookDistant Lands by A.Cook (calendar) Print: £12.49 Welcome to the Distant Lands! Nineteen of my artworks (mostly seasonal landscapes) are included in this 2010 14-month calendar. It has British & Christian holidays (could be changed - just send me a message). I hope you'll enjoy it!

Fantasy Lands by A.CookFantasy Lands by A.Cook (calendar) Print: £12.49 This it 14 months 2010 calendar illustrated with my fantasy artwork. It contain British & US holidays (this could be changed - just send me a message). I hope you will enjoy it.

• Calendar Print

  £3.50

• Alexandra Cook's Art Calendar

  £17.00

Nepal Cinquefoil Flower in Watercolor, Pen & Pencil

A recent artwork:

A bright outdoor painting done in my garden in August. Featuring a single scarlet flower of Potentilla nepalensis, common name: Nepal Cinquefoil. Done on white card with watercolour, gouache, pencils, pen and pigment ink. Unframed (so you can find a frame which will suit your home the best). The size of artwork is approximately 9 x 12 inches (23 x 30 cm).

I love these bright little flowers, they look very natural among grey flat pieces of rock in my organic hilltop garden. They also associate (for me) with the Scarlet Flower from the Russian version of "The Beauty and the Beast".

For sale here.

Derbyshire

An oil pastel over acrylic artwork has been sold. The place is Draycott in Derbyshire, not far from where we used to live.

Pen and pencil people

Two of my imaginary characters (their portraits, sorry!) sold recently:














I like imagining people and some of their environment and then let viewers continuing the story in their minds.

Lady Nebula

One of my Hubble-inspired pictures has been sold. Its a fun idea, to see shapes in Nebulae, like some people do in clouds, so I'll try to do more of this in future.

Think, girl

A recently sold sketch:

New shop

I've joined CafePress today:
http://www.cafepress.com/linandara

I've also had an idea for Delta Quadra group on Last.FM:
http://www.last.fm/group/Delta+Quadra+-+Socionics




INTPs got their own group, so why not?




Anyway, I'm also working on a very strange painting (in digital sketching stage at the moment), incomporating my love for music and some socionic ideas. My husband already christened is Abbagonewrong... Sounds sort of Welsh... (my preliminary name is Shadow Walkers)




Also I've found some funny socionics-inspired art:

http://www.iztkanirukami.ru/cats/socion01.html

Etsy & Ebay update

Few more things in Etsy shop:
Spring in the West Park, Long Eaton

Three green apples - a retouched still life print

Folk Festival - framed acrylic painting

Little Lady - Rag Doll in Medieval Style

Monstresse 63 Unusual Rag Doll

A Set of 3 Dark Brown Canvas Bookmarks

Also it is now free to put items under one pound on Ebay.uk. Helps with spring cleaning...

Probably the last snow of this winter

Just on the hilltops.

Last Sunday some very kind people from Romania gave me a lift to the nearest Orthodox Church where I met some very nice and interesting people.

And I've found another INFJ blog:
http://harrietmwelch.com/
I still have problems with Google Reader, I guess I bookmarked too many blogs, so they keep disappearing or changing folders...

plus another find - the Beatles songs turned into Gregorian chants...

Sold and selling

A little miniature with a red apple has been sold on Etsy and two more artworks are listed for sale: a ginkgo alley in Alexandria, VA and Camomile and Tansy.

Outdoor season started

The spring is in the air. Yesterday I've managed to make an ACEO sketch of the Newtown bridge:

Moth drawing

Its was done with permanent ink pens and colour pencils quite a while ago. I love working in this media because I can achieve lots of details, texture, and its so easy to start and stop working when needed - no paints to squeeze out of tubes or brushes to wash afterwards.

Spurge-Hawk Moth on a piece of tree bark with some lichen

Arches

Yet another artwork in oil pastel:

Stefan Morrell - Dream Cities

Just a link to an artist site:

http://stefan-morrell.com/

Very moody dreamy cities. I wouldn't want to live here but certainly love to visit...

Strange doll

Unusual Handsewn Rag Doll

by Linandara

Spring Comes Early Every Year in acrylic

I've put another fantasy painting for sale on Ebay:

Trees with pink blossom, petals floating in the air, the sky above is golden yellow. Two women in unusual clothes are talking, one is sitting in the cart. The horse is waiting. Open to your interpretation.

Balley Dancer

An artwork sold recently.

Christmas Eve

Here is a mixed media artwork of mine I did (and sold) a couple of years ago filling opposed to commercialization and secularization of Christmas.

Latest sales

Two recently sold artworks:

St Michael church in Breaston, Derbyshire in pastel (gone to Switzerland)


and Approaching Storm in acrylic.

Star Wars ACEO

Four more images are ready for my ACEO commission.

About the drawing on the bottom right - "It is impossible!" was the first phrase I ever learned in English.

White Horse

This painting (size A4) is on the way to Germany now.

I'm working on a Martian landscape in acrylic and multiple ACEO commission at the moment. The work is progressing slowly as I'm more interested in few writing projects. I seems to oscillate between various creative activities and hardly can make myself do something which my heart doesn't want at the moment. I am often angry at myself for that but haven't find the cure yet.

Non-creative activities like cleaning & washing are always at the bottom of my list. I am a horrible housewife!

Newtown Hills

And a new addition to the Ebay shop:

The September certainly was a very productive this year - thanks to the good weather.

I did this from my garden, but moved some of my neighbours' houses and turned the hills into the mountains.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280289498708

"Dawn" in pen & ink and pencil

The latest addition to my Etsy shop. I've got a friend who does stunts for movies in Russia and she kindly sent me a reference photo for this artwork some time ago.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17845046

By the way Etsy does looks so much nicer for an artist than Ebay, but there is a small problem: nothing seems to sell so far...