Stanislava Rachkovskaya ✎

@stanislava.bsky.social

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✎ Artist. Color pencil pusher, art materials explorer, sketchbook hoarder. ✎ Nature nerd. Mushroom, lichen, moss & seaweed enthusiast. ✁﹍﹍﹍﹍﹍﹍﹍﹍ Glasgow, Scotland

Messy artist’s table with red and purple sector of the color wheel in progress showing, the rest is covered with tissue paper. There’s a small color wheel scheme propped up by pencil holder and a portion of a large framed color wheel seen hanging on the wall.
Framed color wheel on a background of messy artists table.
A light table with clean square sheet of paper attached, with schematics of color wheel in orange neon markers and ink shining through. A long wooden pencil holder with six wells holding a large set of freshly sharpened color pencils standing behind it.
Middle aged white woman in a colorful summer dress and sunglasses. She’s sitting on the pavement in the gardens near blossoming bright yellow bush. She turns to face the camera, smiles and shows her large colorful sketchbook with flower drawings.
An open sketchbook with expressive neon and bright colors depicting a lighthouse on the cliff and sheep grazing in abstract manner. The sea and the lighthouse are on the background.
White middle aged woman in bright orange sweater smiling and hugging a wooden statue of four pencils made of black logs. Pencil tips are colored in light green, yellow, red and dark blue. Statue is on the side of the rural road with classic Uk red telephone booth and egg honesty box seen behind.
Stack of four books on David Hockney. Taschen edition on top has a self portrait on the cover, with the artist himself staring intently at the viewer.
A draftsman table with three framed color wheels and one in the making: small paper samples of colors spread on a glued together large color wheels schematics. Starting at 12 colors go from yellow to green to teals to blues at 6 to purples to reds to skin tones and oranges. Blacks and whites are in the center. Colors go from dark in the middle to light at the edges.
Selfie of a white middle aged woman in sunglasss holding up an open A3 sketchbook. Both pages are covered with bright and colorful warm semi abstract landscapes of hills and mountains with trees, gorse and sheep.
Selfie of smiling middle aged white woman in sunglasses sitting on a pebble beach holding up an A3 open sketchbook with drawings of seals in pencils and markers. Seals are basking in sunshine on boulders in the water far away in the background. The sky is clear but for couple of clouds and distant shore is in view.
Hand holding a cup with matcha latte with cheese cloud from Heytea. Lid is twisted to reveal the cheese cloud sprinkles with matcha.
White sheep nibbling at the gorse bush
A mixed media loose abstract sketch in muted and pastel colors. A little white dog napping on a sofa next to the pillow with melon pattern.
A flatlay of way too many sketchbooks of various sizes and tins and pencil cases filled with paints, ink, crayons, pens and pencils
An open sketchbook with expressive neon and bright colors depicting a lighthouse on the cliff and sheep grazing in abstract manner. The sea and the lighthouse are on the background.
An A4 sheet with large color wheel drawn with 120 color pencils. It’s a work in progress with scribbles and swatches dotted around it. Arrows and question marks indicate back and forth of indecision where colors should go.
Sketchbook with colorful illustration of yellow daffodils on pink and purple background. Loosely drawn with crayons.
A4 paper with colored in scheme of color wheel. Color pencils , printouts and paper swatches on the background.
Pink cherry blossom
Bright green fern foliage backlit by the sun
Tuft of cream and yellow daffodils among wild garlic and trees. Sunshine glistens on the river at the background.
Art boards with red background and bright blue m, yellow, green and red color pencil marks covered in white speckles.
Hand holding a boba tea cup with mango tea and mango pearls and a metal straw. Gothic Glasgow university buildings and two red telephone booths at the background.
Bottle of textured fixative spray
A small bright red panel with red flowers drawing in color pencils. Drawing is lose and leaning to abstract. It has a messy partial background of blues. Contrast of colors makes them pop. Flowers are Chinese quince.
Hand holding a stick covered in fluffy lichen with forest road in the background
Two sketchbooks lay open. One with flower studies in ink and color swatches with bright red paint and color pencils. Pencils scattered about the working surface.
Gloomy Scottish landscape with rolling hills, loch in the foreground and munros on the horizon. Two swans in the loch are feeding with bums up like two juicy icebergs.
Photo of purple and light purple striped crocus flowers ready to bloom at the park
An audiobook cover of Natalie Haynes’s Pandora from Libro.fm. Features logo of the Highland Bookshop in Fort Williams, Scotland I am supporting by using the app.
Close up of a stick covered with lichen and a bit of moss
App screenshot with cute chicken and eggs illustration marking level 2 achievement
Messy artists working place with walking pad beneath drafting table in horizontal position piled with books. One book is opened and placed on the table so person could use the walking pad and read.
View of a lighthouse in the distance, a hand holding an open sketchbook on the foreground. There’s a crayon and pencil sketch of the lighthouse on the right page and a photographer taking a picture with a large camera on a tripod on the left. Wind is so strong it ruffles the pages of the sketchbook and protective paper between sketches is flapping violently.
Glass house interior. Woman sitting on a bench among tropical plants holding a sketchbook looking up at the subject she’s drawing with crayons.
A flat lay of poket sized tins filled with colorful art materials: crayons, watercolors, collage papers. Couple of pencil cases, sketchbook, pencils and ink and gouache bottles.
Close up of a sketchbook page depicting dried plant with seed pods in ink and watercolor, with watercolor swatches in the corner of the page.