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Illustrated Ukrainian Vocabulary: Verbs

4/5/2022

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Illustrating language in a credible, amusing, and engaging manner poses many challenges. Verbs have been particular hard for me. I went through the deck today, trying to cull down the number I had left without illustration.

It is highly satisfying mentally when the "light goes on" and a visual idea suddenly surfaces (even when the idea comes late--why. for "to invent,) did it take so long to come up with a picture of Thomas Edison and his lightbulb?)

My invention is still waiting on... more verbs than pleases me. Here're the stragglers awaiting visual conceptualization. Any ideas?
to forget (забути) • to schedule (призначити) • to count (рахувати) • to do (робити) • to understand (розуміти) • to go (іти) • to go [by means of transport] (їхати)
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AnkiWeb is Annoying!

3/30/2022

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I had such lovely feedback for my deck, but it was MONTHS outdated. Now I have no feedback, and no evidence of the 122 downloads of the ridiculous conglomoration of words I call:
☀️Ukrainian Language Vocabulary: Illustrated


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on 12/4/2021
Found it very helpful! Even though the pictures are sometimes hilariously out of place. Though this really helps remembering some of the harder words :D
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on 7/8/2021
Great images and audio
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Soviet Postcard Art — Anna Ostapivna Gorobievskaya (А.О. Горобийскауа)

3/4/2022

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The page for Anna Gorobievskaya has been put up, along with a number of other artists who did work during the Soviet period.

Looking at these images of innocent childhood and expressive fantasy, it is all too easy to engage and forget the circumstances under which they were produced.

Gorobievskaya, of mixed Polish-Ukrainian heritage, had a father, a member of the Polish Drama Company, active in Kyiv during the late 1920s-30s, who was shot in a labor camp in Siberia when Gorobievskaya was ~six years old--an age similar to that of the child in this picture, produced as a popular postcard in 1973, and perhaps Gorobievskaya's best known, most widely circulated on the internet, work.

The Snow Maiden is the figure in Rus folklore who helps the little birds and animals survive through the winter--birds like the bullfinch, the bright, red-breasted spark of life that appears among the frozen branches to remind us all that, despite the season of Winter's rule, something else remains.

Anna Gorobievskaya Page
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What do these Symbols mean? Working towards a personal vocabulary.

3/3/2022

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PictureA suitable metal: Gold or brass?
Brazensun

In traditional heraldry, the Sun in Splendour is a "charge" or identifying symbol of a humanized sun, represented by a round disc with the features of a human face surrounded by twelve or sixteen rays, alternating straight and wavy (representing, respectively, the sun's light and heat).

"Brazen" is not a formal Heraldic term, but it has been used to poetically describe the sun since at least the 16th century. The word itself derives from the word for 'brass," and is something of a mystery word, with no known cognates beyond English.

Brass is an alloy metal with unique and highly useful qualities. It is shiny, more durable than gold, and more widely available. Brass can either be valued for its inherent properties or sneered at for mimicking the qualities of gold without actually being gold. So "brazen" or "brass-like," is a context word, and can be used to compliment or to insult.

The modern definition of brazen is along the lines of "having a quality of strength sufficient to ride out or through an embarrassing or difficult situation by behaving with apparent confidence--and lack of shame."

It is often used to describe people are very bold and seem not care what other people think about them or their behaviour.


Sicklemoon

🌒 Waxing Sickle,: In the Northern Hemisphere, we see the moon's waxing crescent phase as sickle of light on the right.
🌘 Waning Sickle: In the Northern Hemisphere, we see the moon's waning crescent phase as a sickle of light on the left.
From the Southern Hemisphere, these directions are reversed.

The Sicklemoon, then, is a symbol of change--and it is impossible, in a moon image shorn of context, to know which way that change is going.



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Bullfinch

3/13/2020

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As I work with these acrylic paints, I remember why I love (and prefer) oil.
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19th C. Primitive

3/11/2020

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--Perfectionism vs. participation? 

The point with each of these sketches--and it's an evolving one--is to create a new visual experiment with each page.

To me, this image is mostly a record of struggles with different colorants (watercolors, wax pencils, and the texture/fiber of the paper). 
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Lupine

3/10/2020

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Pencil. And I'm finding that I'm getting most mileage out of my hard, hard graphite pencil. The soft pencil, other than for tonal contrast, feels sloppy.
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Sketch for Embroidered Firebird

3/9/2020

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Acrylic & ink. 
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La Contrada Sovrana dell'Istrice

3/6/2020

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Contrade are districts within the ancient Italian city of Siena. They are represented by colorful heraldic devices--this one is worked from the flag for the district of the "Crested Porcupine," in combination with a medieval illustration sent to me by a friend. 
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Imaginary Jewelry

3/5/2020

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The real piece of jewelry is a dragon. This is... more bird, but not all bird.  
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