Ballerina / Original Watercolor Painting / Dance Ballet Art / Watercolour Art / 9.75x11.5''

One of my latest ballerinas paintings. This one is ballerina in purple. Loved this motion catch...
Going to work some more on ballet and dance, but want to be a little more abstract...

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Bird Ink Drawing Art Prints 6x8'' / White on Black Drawing / Bird Art

New art prints from my original ink drawings, white ink on black paper
Really love this kind of drawing, just as to paint the film negative (who remember film cameras?!)...

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Kitten, Original Watercolour Painting, 9.5x12.5'', Cat Art, Watercolour Art

My latest kitten painting, watercolour on paper, 9.5x12.5''

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New cat watercolour painting, 9.5x12.5'' Cat Art, Cat Painting, Watercolour Art

My new painting of cat, watercolor on paper:

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Art cooperation: Watercolor Paintings on Metal... Birds

I have to aware that I'm too much excited.... But I love to extend borders!
These days two of my bird watercolor paintings made in metal are on the way to Los Angeles in order to be exhibited. This project is cooperation with metal art artist Eric Waddington (ModernCrowd). I have to say that the pictures I've received from Eric are amazing, I'vent even imagined that watercolor painting could look so beautiful on metal...
I can't share these images yet, but here are the original ones:

Hold fingers for success of the show...

Cat Painting / Original Watercolor Painting / Cat Art / Watercolour Art

My latest cat watercolor painting...

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Original Watercolor Paintings and Drawings for 30 USD and under

I want to share with you my new section on Etsy shop for ORIGINAL Paintings and drawings for 30 USD and under. In order to clean some stock of art pieces I have before my summer vacation I've reduced prices of some paintings and drawings!

You are welcome to follow the link for this gallery: Originals for 30 USD and under


Some pictures of these:

Abstract Blossoms Branch

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Oak and Linden

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Purple Flowers

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Minimalist Cat

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Cat Painting / Original Watercolour Painting / Cat Art / Watercolor Art 9.5x12.5''

Two more cats paintings for today, trying to reach less lines and paint by "spots" to reach the suit effect...

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84 USD plus shipping

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80 USD plus shipping

Cat Painting / Original Watercolour Painting / Cat Art / Watercolor Art 9.5x12.5''

I can't stop to paint cats... Their characters, personality, poses, grace... Endless theme for inspiration!
This one I've painted inspired by cat that was sitting behind the window and was looking at breeze play with leaves.

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84$ plus shipping

This one I've painted inspired by cat that was looking at bird, it was so clear which thoughts he had!

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74$ plus shipping

Cat Painting / Original Watercolour Painting / Cat Art / Watercolor Art 9.75x9.75''

Love to paint cats and kittens! My favourite model is my cat Lexus, but this one is just pale grey kitten I've seen at my grandma neighborhood... Love at first sight...

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Abstract painting - what is it? How to define abstract art?

As an artist who posts art and as a human who looking at art I just want be able to find specific art pieces that suit my needs. In modern world of internet life we have too much information, tones of pictures and art works. It makes the search more difficult, sometimes even unsuccessful at all.

When I post my art works (paintings, drawings, prints or something else) I have to "produce" title, that will represent this art work the best. This title have to be understandable not just for professionals, but mostly for regular people who looking for art works to add some decor for their home or business life. And I've realised that I'm not really understand when the "abstract" definition is "in law"...

And guess, what I've done in order to find the answers?... Right, I've asked "THE MASTER": Google Search. Maybe it was mistake, cause now I have even more questions. However I want to share with you my own view and will happy to hear about your thoughts. 

I have to say, that I'm not self-taught artist - I have a Fine Arts degree and my interest in art history started before University studies. This point just to clear that I have some information about art schools, art history and trends and I'm not talking about the theme without any knowledge in arts. But my primary occupation is "to make art" and not "to define art", this leads the problem I've raised above. 

The formal definition of abstract art is very clear: 

Abstract art can be a painting or sculpture that does not depict a person, place or thing in the natural world.

As an opposite to abstract art we have realism:

Realism (or naturalism) in the arts is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements.

But between pure realism and pure abstract art there are uncounted art works... For me the confuse begins when I do have "person, place or thing in the natural world" at my art work, but they are not defined as a "specific". 

For example I have flower painting:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/193040671/red-flower-original-watercolor-painting

This flower is not any specific flower kind. But it is a FLOWER - that means you can define it as flower. And I can definitely to say - it is not realistic flower, cause there is no such a flower in botanical world. Realistic flower would be look like:

Red Velvet Rose

https://www.etsy.com/listing/186166713/red-velvet-rose-with-dew-drops-ant?ref=shop_home_active_13

 So what kind of painting is? I would say that it IS ABSTRACT painting of flower, for me abstract art is :

"artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation". 

I understand, that this way the "abstract" definition can be used toward too much art pieces. But it also help to separate "pure abstract" art works those are "non-objective" at all from "abstract form" of object presentation. And I think, that this difference is much important as for people who looking for art works that would have atmosphere effect in inner space design, as for artists who create art of this kind.

How do you define when you look at painting is it abstract or not?