New Year 2025

 Salvete Omnes,

so it has galloped in, the very new New Year 2025

May it be better than the Old 2024,.
I wish lots of health, joy,  humor and creativity to all  of you, my friends and fellow Net travelers.

Szczesliwego Nowego Roku

Prosperoso y muy Feliz Ano Nuevo 
С Новым годом!
Жаңа жыл құтты болсын

Valete

Farewell Old Year 2024

 Salvete Omnes,

and the last hours  of the old 2024 - Adios  Old Year.

and I will share some drawings of mine with you - I have been posting much of my art. 

These drawings I draw and painted on paper, with pen, ballpen, watercolor and gouache, mixing techniques.  

.. I like to think we once had shamans who had been eating Amanita Muscaria (muchomor czerwony in Polish) and then dreaming about the world within and without.

Cheers

Valete

Ballpen drawings & Sketches of Old Polish horsemen and horses

 Salvete Omnes

the very end of the year, it has been not a bad year AD2024 ... but for the wars and mayhem all over the world. 

I have not been posting my own drawings & sketches lately. 

So in the spirit of the New Year's Eve,  San Silvestre, Sylwester or la Noche Vieja coming tomorrow night, I am pleased to share  some of my Old Poland horsemen theme drawings & sketches in ballpen on paper, with some gouache and/or watercolor or gesso (some little resizing etc in GIMP and Krita)

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Enjoy

Salvete

New Month & Sketches

 Salvete Omnes,

BiC  & Rystar, Zenith, Rotring, Toma ball pens, Pentel pencil, watercolor paints and gouache 

we have a brand new month of this 'year of the Farmers protest' 2024 - new hopes and new projects  for me and my brushes & pens.
I would like to share some of my sketches and drawings done on real paper :) 

have not done watercolor in a long while - time to start doing more , this month and all

just playing with ballpen on the winged hussar theme

winged hussar or deli in making - there is a project on hussars and Swedes to me drawn and painted

I was looking at some Marek Szyszko's old illustrations and came up with my own boy ride - I am going to redraw this one and then do a watercolor for a friend 

I am going to do some Parthian drawings and illustrations

one of these days I am going to do some Heracles-themed sketches - lion pelt, bow, gorytus & his stone studded club

ps

Today in Poland-EU they commemorate the Cursed  Soldiers of the post-War World II anti-communist struggle  - let us remember old Roman saying - vae victis!

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Painting by Zdzislaw Walczak - charge at Borujsko 

today, but in 1945 Polish Army cavalry charged German position at Borujsk - the last Polish cavalry charge in their history
1st Warsaw Independent Cavalry Brigade of the Polish Army (on the Eastern Front) charged the defending German positions (of the Die Pommernstellung )  and was victorious in breaking and capturing the enemy positions. 

painting by Michal Bylina, owned by the Polish Army museum in Warsaw, Poland-EU

Edward Mesjasz (1983) - Borujsko

Valete