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  'The Golden Girl' - an artwork based on the Bulgarian fairy tale of the same name. I created it for an art contest where it won 1st place. It has also been exhibited in a digital exhibition 'Art & Fun city'. I used watercolor on 35x50cm paper.

  'Artist' - this piece represents me and what I try to achieve with my art as an artist/designer.

  'Celebration of Lazarovden' - an artwork based on the Bulgarian celebration (name day) of the same name. I created it for an art contest where it won 1st place. It has also been exhibited in a digital exhibition 'Art & Fun city'. I used watercolor and colour pencils on 40x30cm paper.

  'Sea' - an artwork of my native town - Varna.

  'Persephony in the forest' - lake in the forest?, a study made on canvas ...x.. with acrylics. The original is a digital work of another artist.

  'Rosa Bonneur' - This is my finished painting inspired by the biography of Rosa Bonneur (1822-1899) who was a French painter, feminist and animalist, recipient of the Legion of Honor. I have depicted Rosa demonstrating her rebellious behavior and revolutionary thinking by walking freely around the city on a working day with her neck-length hair dressed in men's clothes, for which she had sought special permission from the municipality, with the excuse that women would not allow her to moves around a lot and thus prevents her from doing her job. Also she smokes in public which is another rule she ignores. In fact, the very fact that she was an artist by profession and was a woman was considered a violation, because the academies did not admit women at the time. Rosa became one of the most famous artists of her time, and this is due in part to her father, who trained her, and to the family environment in which she grew up.

  'In the mountains' -  is an artwork based on a scene from Studio Ghibli's film 'Howl's Moving Castle'. It was created for a Bulgarian art contest where it won 1st place. It has also been exhibited in a digital exhibition 'Art & Fun city' on digital billboards all over my native town of Varna, Bulgaria. Watercolor was used on 35x50cm paper.

  'Stainful steel' -  explain the halo, use text from design portfolio, make it more buy-er oriented

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  'The Antique store in Varna' - an artwork of an antique store in my native town - Varna. I created it for an art contest where it won 3rd place. It has also been exhibited in a digital exhibition 'Art & Fun city'. I used watercolor on 35x50cm paper.

  'Artemis', Goddess of the Hunt, a.k.a. Diana of Versailles;

  A graphic drawing of the sculpture in the Louvre Museum made with pencil in my sketchbook.

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  'Kaya Scodelario' - a portrait of one of my favourite actresses

  'Hand' - a graphic drawing with pencils (35x50 cm) from observation. I decided to add more contrast intentionally because i wanted the hand to pop out instead of be 100% realistic to the original.

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  'Hotel Royal' - a watercolour (35x50 cm) painting of the beautiful old but upkept building of the hotel in Varna.  ....text from email about the hotel... won 1st place and was sold to the hotel owner.

  'Napoleon crossing the Alps' - One of his most significant victories due to another clever military strategy Napoleon came up with. In 1800, he fooled armies, crossing the Alps with his troops, in order to attack soldiers in Genoa by surprise. An ambitious, determined, competent warrior and governor who eventually became too selfish and let his greed and ego take the best of him. Extremely lucky and smart, but not too bright on the social scene, especially when it came to women, their rights and perhaps religion, for example. Originally being born on the island of Corsica, Bonaparte is also the kind of person who refuses to give up until the end.

   The original painting was done by Jacques-Louis David. Of course, in reality, Napoleon crossed the steep mountain route riding not a horse, but a donkey which was much more suitable for the area. Thus another picture of him riding on a donkey’s back in the cold peaks of the Alps exists.

 

  'Trifon Zarezan' - a character design for a mythological figure in Bulgarian folklore, comparable to Dionysus. He is the icon of a Bulgarian celebration of wine-makers celebrated on the 14th of February. ...myth about him... participation in contests

  'Gesture drawing/anatomy studies' - sketches made for a limited time from observations of photographs of people and imagination.

  'Tarot cards' - a figural composition, for which i created designs of 3 tarot cards

  'Cardboard kingdom' - a series of character, environment and props designs

  'Mrs Twit' - originally a character design for Mrs Twit from Roald dahl's book ''The Twits'' it turned into a different look for an antagonist Mrs Twit instead of her usual role as a villian

    Please contact me for more information or if you'd like to see what else has been made for any of these projects.

 

© 2024 by Nadya Petkova

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