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Study on Corvus Cornix
Liminality: a creature that inhabits borders between life and death, the mundane and the mythic. Here, it feels introspective rather than ominous. Its slightly open beak suggests a withheld voice, as if something is about to be spoken but remains unuttered. Ink on paper 21x29 cm
nikolopoulouzoe
Jan 21 min read


Study on a wave
I was letting the sea hold something for me — something I didn’t know how to name.
nikolopoulouzoe
Nov 26, 20251 min read


Study on a crow
To me, the crow symbolizes the alchemy of feeling — the slow, internal process through which pain is transformed into understanding and grief into creation. It carries within its darkness a strange kind of light. It’s what light leaves behind.
nikolopoulouzoe
Nov 5, 20251 min read


STUDY ON A MATCH
For me, this small match is less about fire than about consequence. Once lit, it cannot return to what it was. Its beauty — in the blue...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 25, 20251 min read


Study on a spoon
When I worked on this spoon, I wasn’t just interested in drawing it accurately — I wanted to see how light alone could give it presence*....
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 23, 20251 min read


Study on shadows
When I was making this study, I wasn’t so much thinking about a sail as I was about how it could almost disappear into atmosphere. The...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 20, 20251 min read


Study no. 4
From Minimalism , I take the idea of restraint: the decision to remove excess, to strip down to what is essential. From Color Field...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 17, 20251 min read


Study on a swimmer no. 48
The sea impacts the human psyche because it reflects its structure. Like the mind, it possesses surface calm and hidden turbulence,...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 12, 20251 min read


Study on a swimmer no.44
When I painted this swimmer, what I was really painting was surrender. There is a moment when the body yields to the water, when the arms...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 11, 20251 min read


Study on a ring
That’s the deceptive beauty of perception. I don’t actually see the world as it is—I see the version my brain builds for me, stitching...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 8, 20251 min read


study of a match
Chalk and charcoal What haunts the eye most is the smoke. It drifts, pale and ephemeral, refusing form, just as the presence of a lost...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 7, 20251 min read


Study of a pillow
To draw it was to sit at the edge of dream. The pillow spoke to me in silence, not as an object but as a soft ghost of what once rested...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 5, 20251 min read


Study of nature
In these tokens is revealed a single occult law—that death is no ruin, but transformation, a shifting of essence into subtler realms. The...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 2, 20251 min read


Study on temptation
This painting began as an exercise on temptation , and I found myself circling around its familiar symbols—the fruit, the serpent, the...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 31, 20251 min read


Study of a dead bird
What unsettles me most is the silence around it. The bird does not narrate its fall; it simply is. In that stillness, the painting...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 31, 20251 min read


Study of a tree
This kind of study is always a struggle for me. The moment I sit with the tree and try to translate its twisted form onto paper, I feel...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 28, 20251 min read


Mushrooms
When I drew these two mushrooms, I let their stems cross and knot together almost instinctively. The lines weren’t meant to be perfectly...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 27, 20251 min read


Study of a dead deer
This study focuses on the anatomy and posture of a deer in a prone position. Using graphite, I explored the weight distribution of the...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 16, 20251 min read


Plate No. XVII – Rosa, study in decline
Specimen rendered upon black ground to heighten contrast of pallor against depth. Outer petals exhibit marked curling and fraying at...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 13, 20251 min read


Study of a wing
In studying the butterfly wing, I am reminded that nature builds with both precision and poetry. Every margin, vein, and angle serves a...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 11, 20251 min read
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