Tatiana Iliina Blogs

You may have heard of those fanatics who never seem content with just going to work and watching TV, or staring at their phones, as the case may be. "Hanging out" is not a valid activity for the crazy creatives! For example, there is a guy here... 

I started off looking to see if there was a way to do a blogroll in this system. I do not see it so far. Will search the message board later. Now let's just say I put one link in the "web link" box. Is it possible to put another link in the tex... 

In this post I thought I would try to give some insight into interpretation (or lack thereof!) of my paintings. As an illustration, I used a painting called Over Cosmic Clouds, sold earlier this year, that I have recently made available as a print on... 

A reminder to everyone that I welcome commissions and ship my original paintings all over the world. Last week, for example, I finished a re-creation of my painting, "Felt the Spirit Move", in a larger size, 30" x 60". The new painting will hang i... 

"...A bird-note, or a turning leaf, The first white fall of snow, a brief Wild song from the Anthology, A smile, or a girl's kindling eye...." -Bliss Carman, A Painter's Holiday 

It seems like forever that I have been painting the four seasons! Even going back to my student years in Russia painting or drawing the four seasons was always a favourite assignment. Then, when I came to Canada, one of my first jobs was creating a s... 

Yeah, paint is definitely a radical concept! Nowadays if we want to spam search engines we call absolutely anything a "painting". If we want to describe an actual painting, we have to specify that it is "a physical object comprised of a substrate ... 

Now comes the hard part - following through on even the three eensy weensy little "promises to self" made in the last blog. Never mind all the rest of my diabolical plans for infiltrating peoples' homes with my art! Step one - the blog. Even if on... 

I recently added the link to my new website under my bio info. The new site is www.tatiana-iliina-paintings.com. My former (and still existing) site did not seem to have the potential to handle ecommerce the way I wanted. Since FAA isn't really set u... 

"If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden." ~Claudia Adrienne Grandi Like most people, I love flowers! I also love painting them. I have made a few videos of my flower paintings. This is one of a... 

Passing though... I've been a member for 2-3 years now. Have made a few sales without a huge amount of effort as my sales focus is slightly in a different direction... But can't help but comment on what a great site this is. Total win win win for art... 

I have always gone to nature for my creative inspiration. I think this video shows a good example of why!  

Great News! My mosaic classes are now ongoing at the Montreal Art Center. I have named my workshop after the area it is located in, historic Griffintown, in the downtown Montreal area. The introductory course lasts 8 sessions of two hours each and... 

Low Tide on Grand Pré THE sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches by the tide Such unelusive glories fall, I almost dream they yet will bide Until the coming of the tide. And yet I know that not for us, By any ecstasy of dream, H... 

Hey it's "Meet the Artist" day today at the Montreal Art Center! Downtown at the corner of des Seigneurs and William. I'll be there from 4-8 or later. If you think the kind of painting I do (see the video) looks like a lot of fun, come on by and m... 

The person in the painting in this video has never been revealed. Not even the buyer of the painting ever asked me - so I presume they probably don't know either. Can anyone guess who it is?  

Now that my appetite has been well totally stifled after dining on flamingos over on Krista May's blog, I'm ready to share something wet. No I'm not talking about (that!!) shedding a tear over years of my life wasted be it either because of hittin... 

In some of my videos, I'm trying to evoke a feeling that might be complementary to the painting or paintings featured. So, is my future as a video producer about to transform into a beautiful butterfly... Or is it more of a moth?  

I did this painting over this past Christmas and into the New Year. It could probably be almost anywhere in the U.S. or Canada but I imagined it in a particular valley in British Columbia. I've heard about how there used to be "barn-raisings", wh... 

It is one thing to get up to speed just with what it takes to put up a video on youtube or another service. It is something else yet again to find the ways to put up videos that will be fresh, interesting and perhaps even have the potential to go vir... 

Over the past week the number of views I've been getting on my Youtube videos has been dropping precipitously! Whereas I was getting from 1000-2000 views per day, this seems to have dropped suddenly to a few hundred. I have looked around at... 

Only a week remaining before I start missing #BWELA, otherwise known as BlogWorld & New Media Expo in L.A. Nov. 3 – 5, 2011. Not that blogging isn't of interest... Nor should it ever be overlooked by artists as a valuable tool. In fact, between my pa... 

The following poem is by Bliss Carman, one of Canada's leading 19th and early 20th century poets. Not many have heard of him now but I find his work inspiring, vivid and "visual". "A Painter's Holiday" We painters sometimes strangely keep Thes... 

The third Artprize just wrapped up in Grand Rapids MI a couple of days ago. ArtPrize 2010 Retrospective from Paul Moore on Vimeo. Artprize is the unique visual art competition that takes over the entire city of Grand Rapids MI and awards a ...