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Art by Dina Argov

~ Colourful paintings inspired by nature, imagination & femininity

Art by Dina Argov

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Matryoshka coloring pages in progress

05 Tuesday Feb 2013

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I am visiting my mother in Berlin, working on new coloring pages of folk Matryoshka’s. If you want to be notified by mail when they will be ready as printable PDF files, drop me a line to dinakof@gmail.com

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Matryoshka coloring page in progress

There are some available at my shop, amongst other folk art prints and original paintings made by me: http://www.etsy.com/shop/DachaStudio

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Acrylic illustration – Girl with a goose

08 Tuesday Jun 2010

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This acrylic illustration is for my final project in Bezalel academy of art and design, Jrusalem. The theme is a poem by Kadya Molodowsky, and this part of it is somwhere in the middle of the poem-story. The girl drifts in to her imagination, escaping the reality of the grey and tough life in a suburb not far from Warsaw, in the beginning of the last century. I hope it comes threw the illustration, I work on this project a lot, so It’s hard for me to see things clear. Painting with acrylic was something I didn’t like when I only started with it aroun 10 years ago, I prefered oil painting, but now I am friends with it. Besides acrylic I used colored pencils in this illustration, in the buble of the imagination. I hope the project will come out the best way it can.

Here are the previous illustrations for my final project:  https://artbydina.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/a-girl-hanging-laundry/ and:  https://artbydina.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/already-six-years-old-with-firy-curls/ and: https://artbydina.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/the-first-double-spread-of-my-final-project/

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Illustration for motherhood theme

02 Wednesday Jun 2010

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Pencil drawing, colored by computer. This illustration was made for editorial newspaper illustration course in Bezalel academy. The magazine is about art and science for children. Each magazine comes out with different theme, I took “motherhood” and two others. Usually I don’t use this illustration technique, but I liked it, so maybe I’ll do it again sometime.

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Book cover illustration for “Everything Is Illuminated”

30 Sunday May 2010

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Colored pencils and oil pastels on paper + computer generated. An illustration for the cover of the book: “Everything Is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer. This illustration is part of a series I made for this book, here is another one: https://artbydina.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/the-bead-of-condemnation/.  The jewish villagers in this forgotten shtetl which name is a story by itself (Trochenbrod or Zofiówka), are the theme of the background with their grotesque expressions. I enjoyed doing this cover because of the portrait freedom I could use here, while usually I stick to the realistic look. There is something strong in cover illustration, it must be specific and communicative – to make it this way, and still be interesting  is a unique art by itself.

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Open the gate

23 Sunday May 2010

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Pencil on paper, colored with the computer (CGI). This was one of the illustration options for my final project, for a poem by Kadya Molodowsky, called “open the gate”. I chose another poem and another style/technique, but still, this is one of my favorite images from the project. The inspiration is from some image I found on the internet, called: “girl at the garden gate”.

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About Dina Argov

Hi, I am Dina, illustrator/painter, dreamer and realist. My style is influenced by nature, folk art, good vibes and life as a woman and a mother. I love the country side, music, and the company of wise people. If you like what I do, follow me.

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