Original Art Works – series
Original Art Works – series
(the only one exsemplar existing, not reproductions)
(the only one exsemplar existing, not reproductions)
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"On the sea"
Diptych by Diana Bychkova
Miniature, extremely detailed, ink drawing on paper
Size of each picture: 20 x 28.8 cm
Can be framed with passe-partout, separately or as a diptych
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Shakespeare, Sonnets
Shakespeare, Sonnets
by Diana Bychkova
This art folder includes:
🔸154 leaves with handwritten sonnets (ink on paper)
🔸 1 handwritten title page with a designed composition containing the name of the poet (ink, acrylic on paper)
🔸 A hand-crafted folder with the title reproduced on it
🔸 A printed poster that reproduces calligraphy for one of the sonnets
Size of the original page with sonnets: 34 x 26 cm
Folder: 34.5 x 26.5 x 6 cm
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❗ ONLY 20 CA$ for a handwritten leaf with a sonnet x 154 sonnets
Plus handwritten title and art folder.
Free: a printed poster with calligraphy
Tot: 3,400 CA$
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This item has a prep time of 5 business days.
"Princess and the Sea Beast"
"Princess and the Sea Beast"
by Diana Bychkova
A series of 13 pencil drawings, which accompany a fairy tale of the same title.
About the creation of this series, publications, awards >>>
Italian folk fairy tales, in an adaptation by Italo Calvino, served as the inspiration for this project. Having read many fairy tales, I started to comment visually on the characters, one by one, without connecting the drawings to any specific text, but rather by adhering to a general fantastic style. In order to immerse myself in the topic, I also conducted some research: I studied fairy tale elements and their graphical representation in medieval European books, the page ornamentation, their relations with handwritten text, and how the text intertwines and transforms itself into elements to become the heads and tails of fantastic beasts.
Such a project developed from both the creative word-picture interpretation of fairy tales and theoretical study. The result was an MA thesis on the fantastic elements in medieval art, which I defended at the Academy of Arts in Milan.
A totally new fairy tale was written to accompany the drawings and publish a limited edition of this book. The miniatures are printed on etching paper with slight relief of ink, like woodcut to the touch, and artisan bookbinding reproduces relief prints as well.
I filled 13 large sheets with fantastic characters. Many say the precision and the technique of these miniature pencil drawings remind them of etchings. Each picture was meticulously developed in detail and can be framed as a single artwork.
Diana Bychkova
Publications and awards
2005 - Winner of the gold-silver medal Cesare Frigerio, “for a great imagination and the execution of drawings in the technique of chiaroscuro”. (Corsico, Italy)
2006 - Publication in the historical journal of graphics and art Grafica d’Arte, edited by Paolo Bellini (Milan, Italy)
2009 - Winner of the personal exhibition at the competition “Polar Expo” (Bergamo, Italy)
2009 - Participation in the exhibition “Fabularia”. (Milan, Italy)
2010 - Diploma at the competition “Book Image” at the International Book Fair (Moscow, Russia)
This art work is offered as a series and includes:
🔸13 miniatures, extremely detailed pencil drawings
🔸A title page and 13 leaves with hand-written calligraphy reproducing Italo Calvino's fairy tale that served as an inspiration for this series
🔸A hand-crafted folder with leather spine
🔸A prototype of the book with graphic design, pictures and a new fairy tale that accompanies the pictures.
It took two years of research and work to complete this project.
Size of the original pencil drawings: 31.7 x 48 cm
Size of paper: 42.5x60 cm
Paper: Hahnemuhle 230 gr
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From 900 to 2,100 CA$ per leaf.
The cost of a single drawing varies based on the level of detail and the amount of research required for each leaf, multiplied by 13 drawings. Tot. $23,280
Free: hand-crafted folder, 13 leaves with hand-written calligraphy, and a printed broshure with the tale.
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Giftable Art Prints – reproductions
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Ink drawings & satirical poems
Ink drawings & satirical poems
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Satires
This art work consists of a series
of Diana Bychkova's original ink drawings and double-page collages
based on everyday satires about St. Petersburg from Sasha Cherny’s collected poems of 1907-1922
About the creation of this book:
A research work has been conducted for this project at the National Library in Kyiv on the design of newspapers of the beginning of the 20th century, and on Russian futurist poetry. This work culminated in an MA thesis titled “The combination of photos, drawings and author’s manuscripts in the book illustration”. Finally, I developed a series of pictures based on Sasha Cherny’s satiric poems about everyday life in St. Petersburg and transferred them into etchings on zinc.
Exhibitions and publications:
2010 — A short report about pictures on S. Chernyi’s poems, published in the journal “Segretti di Bocca”, Milan, n. 25, p. 10.
2010 — This series of illustrations “Satires” has been displayed in the exhibition Festa del Dialogo and published in the catalogue of the same name, GraFiMar: Milan, p.10-11.
2010 — published as a mini-book by Alberto Casiraghi, Pulcinoelefante: Osnago, Italy.
A series of images by Diana Bychkova, created in a documentary-artistic style that visually interpret Sasha Cherny's poems "Satires" of 1907-1922.
This body of work is more than a set of illustrations—it is a visual narrative of Saint Petersburg’s literary life. Rooted in archival research and historical documents, the series blends factual depth with artistic interpretation of poetry, offering a layered and evocative perspective on the city’s cultural heritage.
It took over a year of meticulous work to develop this project. Each leaf was designed individually and can be framed as a standalone image.
This body of work is presented as a series and includes:
🔸 52 original ink drawings on paper—silhouettes composed with a precise balance of black and white, each forming a poetic symbol. These were later incorporated into the final collages. Size of pictures varies, approx. 12 x 13 cm.
(50$ each x 52 drawings = 2,600$)
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🔸 5 frontispieces—digitally created and printed collages (34 × 26 cm) that gather poetic imagery for each of the five chapters of the book.
(60$ each x 5 pictures = 300$)
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🔸 17 miniatures (8 × 8 cm)—final images capturing satirical episodes and the overall mood of the poems. (60$ each x 17 = 1,020$) Twelve were transferred onto metal plates to produce etchings (can be purchased separately, see: Etchings “Satires”).
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🔸 A set of 36 photographs printed from films, replicating the visual style of early 20th-century newspapers.
(5$ each x 36 = 180$)
🔸 A prototype of the final book—containing poems (in Russian) and graphic design with pictures. Its elongated format, cover, and title reflect the aesthetics of the period’s art movements while introducing new symbolic imagery. (450$)
🔸 An art folder, crafted with sections to preserve and archive properly this series. (70.00$)
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Buy this artistic series now for your collection! Your purchase will significantly contribute to the development of the nonprofit cultural project: Rare Books Collections Database.
Option 1:
Choose any components of this series
20% discount: 3,696.00 CA$ rather than 4,620.00 CA$ on order of the entire series.
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Art & documentary photos, manuscripts, and drawings
Art & documentary photos, manuscripts, and drawings
A series of Diana Bychkova's works, created in a documentary-artistic approach, visually interpreting Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita.
This series is not merely a collection of book illustrations, but a visual representation of an entire epoch—capturing the spirit, tension, and layered reality behind the novel through research-informed imagery and artistic insight.
An immense amount of meticulous work was invested to develop this project, which was further improved several times over 10 years.
Each leaf was designed individually and can be framed as a standalone image.
This art folder includes:
🔸 The frontispiece reproducing some ripped pages of Bulgakov’s manuscript and his photo (60$)
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🔸 9 original photos, still lifes, designed to symbolize some of the chaptes, and hand-printed from photo films in a darkroom (34$ each x 9 photos = 306$)
🔸 9 large collages, digitally created and printed, each contains a photo of still life (as above), ink drawings and reprodutions of the writer’s manuscripts.
Size of each college: 41.5 x 28.5 cm (160$ each x 9 pictures = 1,440$)
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🔸 230 small drawings (originals, ink on paper) that recreate the environment through the representation of details of everyday life. Size of pictures varies, approx. 12 x 15 cm. (only 20.00 $ each x 230 pictures = 4,600$)
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🔸 A diptych consisting of 2 collages that gather all the 230 small drawings in a united composition and narrate visually the entire novel. Digitally created and printed. Size of each of the two parts: 50 x 70 cm (220.00$ each x 2 pictures = 440$)
🔸 A folder with the research work, including copies of Bulgakov's manuscripts, old photos, excerpts of articles and monographs, and artist's chapter from the thesis. Everything has served as a documntary basis for this series. (1,200.00$)
🔸 A prototype of the book with the novel (in Russian), layout design, illustrations, and hand-made leather binding, with a relief print on the cover, and the autor's manuscripts reproduced on the book edges. (780.00$)
🔸 An art folder, crafted with sections to preserve and archive properly this series. (70.00$)
🔸Scroll to see some of the pictures and zoomed fragments.
Buy this artistic series now for your collection! Your purchase will significantly contribute to the development of the nonprofit cultural project: Rare Books Collections Database.
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Choose any components of this series
20% discount: 7,117.00 CA$ rather than 8,896.00 CA$ on order of the entire series.
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This item has a prep time of 1-5 weeks depending on the components requested.
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Watercolours, drawings
Watercolours, drawings
by Diana Bychkova and Stepan Romanyshyn
A series of large-format watercolours containing about 250 ironic, well-developed characters in total, which were created to illustrate the popular easy riddles written in an amusing manner.
It took over a year of meticulous work to develop this project. Each leaf was designed individually and can be framed as a standalone image.
This art work is offered as a series and includes:
🔸 18 leaves painted in watercolour, developed with extra-fine details, and 2 leaves with pencil drawings "find hidden anumals", with 250 developed characters in total, 38 x 50 cm each picture.
🔸 5 leaves with varians not included in the book
🔸 19 leaves with preparatory sketches, 38 x 50 cm
🔸 Prototype of the book in English: 52 pages, format 22.5 x 22.5 cm
🔸 Prototype of the book in Italian, with a different layout/format: 24 pages, format 25.5 x 34 cm. It was published in cooperation with Arti Grafiche Colombo. © DS Art, Salinzucca. Milan, 2010.
🔸 Art folder for the series, hand-creafted with beautiful papers
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590 CA$ - an average price for a single original artwork, multiplied by 20 final leaves (an immense amount of work!). Plus prototypes of 2 versions of the book.
Tot.: 11,980 CA$
Free: 19+5 large-format leaves with preparatory sketches and variants, and a hand-crafted folder.
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