My Babushka Heart Sings!

Last week in our weekly watercolor class, we focused on the art of the Russian Matryoshka dolls. These dolls are very special to me because my ancestors emigrated to the US from Antopol, Russia (near Kiev). My father loved his heritage when he was alive, and we have a large collection of these dolls that he gave to us when he died 6 years ago. Miss him every single day, but seeing these dolls daily in our house bring us happiness for sure!

The colors, details and beauty of these dolls has always inspired me as an artist. I love drawing them, building them from clay and painting them. So our focus this past week was to create our own Matryoshka dolls using watercolor, pen, colored pencils and doodles. Look at how gorgeous they turned out! I am blown away by the sheer beauty, detail and imagination! Love! Love! Love!