22 thoughts on “About”

1. I found this site after seeing a post about you on Claudia Chase’s (Mirrix Looms) blog site. I’m a beginning bead weaver and was fascinated by your Woven Glass work (your sketching is awfully impressive as well!). I wanted to ask you a question about bead weaving but am not sure this was the place to do so. Is it? (You are welcome to delete this comment if you don’t think it fits here!) I was wondering what type or brand of thread you use for your weavings and whether when you use your double needle technique to you alternate the sides that add the beads to (e.g. use left side for thread with beads, run right side needle through beads; use right side to add beads, run left side needle through the beads)?

   Thanks.

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   • Hi Pam! Thank you for your kind comments. It is perfectly fine to talk about beads or any kind of art here – no problem at all. I’ve sent you an email with some technical explanations and recommendations, it’s pretty long for a blog reply. Let me know if you have more questions, I am glad to help if I can.

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2. Nice too meet you 🙂

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   • Nice to meet you too! Is it Alexandra or Alina? My full name is Alexandra :D, do we share a name?

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3. Both are my second name 😉
   Alina-Alexandra,but my friends tell me only Alina 🙂

   Have a special day,my friend!

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   • From which country you are from? 😀

     Have a Happy Valentine’s Day! 🙂

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     • Chicago, USA 🙂 It is freezing here at the moment!

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4. I’m very pleased to meet you.
   I love all of your artwork, especially your drawings.
   Have a great day.

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   • Hi, Debbie! Good to meet you too! So great to find another graphite aficionado! Thank you for your kind words about my drawings. I love your work very much! Do you still update your blog? I would subscribe to keep up with you, but noticed that there were few updates lately.

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     • I’ve been abroad for the last several month and don’t have my art-supplies due to the small space in order to create drawings. But I do plan on being back home for the winter and continue with my artwork.

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5. Hi Alex,

   I just wrote all of the following under your post on “Tim”, but I guess I should have wrote you here instead (not too familiar how this site works, LOL). Anyways, your work is amazing! I found you quite accidentally. One of my friends Googled me and found you by accident. My sister is an artist too and has been drawing and painting since she was a little girl (and on occasion sculpting). As curiosity grabs me, I am wondering if by chance you are Russian or from somewhere in Easter Europe? Reason I ask is because there were not that many Zonis’s left after WWII, and most who survived got scattered around the world. My family immigrated to the US back in the 70′s from Kishenev and I was a child when we arrived. We found several other Zonis’s who were originally from Bucharest and other part of Russia, and one was actually a distant relative. Anyways, I thought I would reach out and let you know that I really like your sketches.

   Thanks,
   Alex

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   • Alex, it is really not that important where you left the comment. I am so glad you did. It is possible we have a family connection there to be discovered. I’ve sent you an email to the address you left here.

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6. I came over via Leslie White’s blog. I like your work very much.
   🙂

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   • Hi Val! Good to meet you! Thank you for stopping by! I just spent some time reading and enjoying your blog, will be visiting more.

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7. Hi!

   I found this blog from doing a Google search on your name. I have been admiring your Magic Carpet series for quite some time, being a bead loomer myself. I was wondering if you could share some info with me. I just finished a beadwoven Navajo Indian-style “tapestry” that is approximately 12″ x 20″ (over 70,000 Miyuki delicas). I am in the process of finishing off the warp threads. I was wondering if you knot every thread….I always have in the past, but I am really tempted to just wind them around, hopefully securing them enough so they would never come out. I make tabs and hang my pieces on dowel rods, so once they are hung, there shouldn’t be any stress/wear on them.

   I also love your pencil work! You are very talented in so many ways!

   Take care
   Roberta

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8. Your hyper-realistic paintings are remarkable, Alex. I wonder how long it takes you to get all that detail onto such small boards. I’m self-trained too, which may be why I don’t see what difference a formal art education makes. The quality of the work speaks for itself.

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   • Hey, Jeremy! Good see you visit here! It takes a long time to work in this manner, and very small brushes. Exactly the opposite from what they teach in art school. At least that’s what I hear they teach in art school, having not gone myself. I miss not having art history and style comparisons explained and outlined for me. Other than that, it is freedom of not knowing the right from “wrong”, freedom to experiment.

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9. I think we always have freedom to experiment, even though it can be difficult to unlearn conventions. I have been told that they like to call your method of painting “illustration.” With “painting” they seem to like big brush strokes and texture. When I first started painting, I drew a tarot deck using paint brushes, not knowing yet how to really paint. People seem to like the naïve artwork, but it bothers me as an artist that the tarot is the only thing I’ve done which people seem to recognize. Do you have images from your earlier phases online? I would be interested to see how your work has progressed to the level it’s at now.

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10. HI Alex – I love your sketches and painting. Eggs are indeed one of the “tests” artists undertake. I did mine back in college 30 years ago. Anyway, I just read your comment on the ArtBiz blog about your wonderful representative who you love to pieces. Would you be willing to share his information and allow me to contact him. Thank you so much! Carrie MaKenna, Denver CO

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    • Thank you for stopping by, Carrie, and for your kind words about my work!

      I will ask him if he is taking on new artists right now and let you know.

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11. Hi Alex
    We have met today with Arnon Rolnik at my place on Ein Shemer.
    As soon as every one left I Googled you – and I realy loved what I saw.
    Only 4 years – and it seems you’ve come a long way.
    I am glad we had a chance to meet and hope to have another chance.
    All the best
    Nira

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    • Dearest Nira! Thank you so much for having me in your house the other day! I have not had this much fun in a long time! What a wonderful family you have! Thank you for the kind words on this site as well, you are so kind, I am very happy you liked my work. Thanks for leaving me your email, I will write you privately as well.

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