'I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.' - Dali | Anton Tantsev

I've just realized a funny thing. I have never, not once, had a fine art entry on this blog (as in paintings, sculpture and anything along those lines). What is even more funny is the fact that I actually come from a fine art background - pure classic art: drawings, oil paintings etc etc... that's how I started. I guess doing design for the past five years or so, I have pushed myself away from the fine art as far as I possibly could. Oh well. Life takes turns. So I would like to take this opportunity and fill in some gaps here.

This post is dedicated to Anton Tantsev, an extremely talented young Russian artist and a very close friend of mine, who is now working his way up the ladder. Unfortunately I couldn't make it to his first solo exhibition, which opened couple of weeks ago, but I am hoping to make it for the second one this summer. Anton and I pretty much started at the same spot, and even though he had his own good share in graphic design, he has made a decision to push it all aside and just do what he believes in the most. Admirable much - I have to say. So, on my behalf, I wish him future luck in what he's doing, because he really is very good at it.

Few words I can describe his work with are (he may disagree with some of them, but that's my understanding of it after all) - inventive, unorthodox, brave, sexual, at times violent, Dali inspired, visionary... That should do it.

Check out his tumblr for more paintings and some really interesting sculpture pieces.