To paint is perhaps … to select the whispering colors, to gather the silhouettes of thoughts and secret idioms from which I extract something I call myself. (Jarrett, 2007, p. 79)
The series of paintings inspired by the trip to Venice.
Window, La Serenissima series
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Acrylic paint on navy cotton
These are drawings done during my travels. For life sketches I love to use the sanguine charcoal and watercolors. It gives a delicate touch to the drawing and a chromatic harmony to the whole composition. The practice of life sketching should be an essential intellectual gymnastic for all kind of artists. There is nothing more stimulating than drawing model, architecture, landscape, or still life... 
Collection of sketches from life models.
Nude Model
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Model studies with sanguin chalk and aquarelle
France, Limoges
October 2009
Portraiture, is to me the most fascinating form of artistic activity. During my travels I always carry with me a cornet where I constantly sketch different faces trying to register the moment of time through the facial imagery. I always feel as I am stilling from the portrayed individuals their moment of a passing time. When after I look at them back I have the ultimate power to rewind their... 
Formula 1, a racing competition between the industrial giants of great marks of sport cars, which bits all records of popularity among all classes of our contemporary society. It is interesting to see the glamor created around it. The most powerful cars in the world are driven by drivers surrounded by beautiful women and lot of noise from super powered motors. It is a great show to many. I am not... 
I began to draw satirical drawings from 1983. It all started by accident. I made a few funny commentaries on our life in socialist realities in Eastern Block to my friend during one of our conversations. He was then already recognized cartoonist in Polish press media, He invited me to draw something funny for two festivals of satirical art. One was taking place in Montreal, Canada, and another in... 
Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) is generally considered by various scholars as a creator of the caricature due to his drawings and paintings depicting various characters in somehow caricaturist way. Before Carracci, Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) also sketched of his contemporaries the particularities of their facial characteristics . Giuseppe Archimboldo (1527-1593) also had his own way to compose... 
The artwork “The Premonition in the Badlands” represents the compact summary of the imperialist attitude towards The Native Nations. Symbolically it depicts the general attitude of the Colonizer towards the Colonized and its evident consequences. I have appropriated one of Edward S. Curtis’s photographs in order to depict the essence of the conflict of interest existing between... 
Collection of life sketches from the Kahnawake POW WOW, 2009
Dancing Girl
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brown marker and watercolors
Artist painter, teacher and author
