Art workshops, classes, and events with Lena Nechet in Oceanside, California.

Advantages of a workshop:

• • • you can have the joy of creation among your peers,
    • get a piece of advice from a practicing artist to assist you in your progress,
    • and have an experience-rich art process session in a new environment with different choices of art materials.

Fine art original paintings and drawings and custom artwork.

• Originals: handmade works of fine art completed independently are my main concentration, you can purchase any available artwork;
• Painting Commission: if you would like to define the theme or subject of the art piece and possibly the main colors of the artwork you will buy, we could agree on terms for a portrait, a painting of a place (like a home view), or an abstraction;
• Murals: for your wall with most lightfast pigments, designed to fit harmoniously into surroundings;
• Illustration: visualization of the essence in your book, recording, or any other type of presentation.

Custom media production services and products by Lena Nechet in San Diego and Orange Counties, CA, and some worldwide.

My primary offers are videographic and photographic environmental portraits. In special cases, I design artistic logotypes and well-structured websites.

Language lessons, intercultural mediation, talks, interpreting, and translation - German, English, Ukrainian, Russian.

Testimonials about me by people I respect and value. I am deeply thankful to each person here for taking the time to write these words. I have requested references only once, from a few recent clients in 2018, but I might ask for more in the future. If you would like to give me your feedback, I would highly appreciate it and might publish it here with your permission.

I am not active on social media, but I try to check on my old profiles now and then. My direct messages (DMs) are usually switched off, and I do not monitor mentionings and comments closely. None of the apps are installed on my phone. I am happy to connect outside of social media.

• Sketchbook pages, large figure sketches, gesture drawing, anatomy studies, urban sketching, blueprints, underpainting, and work in progress.

Sketch - a rough drawing representing the chief features of an object or scene, a preliminary study.

Art compositions created with computing devices.

Digital art is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology.

• purely computer-generated, e.g. fractals, algorithmic art, etc.
• manipulated scanned or digital photographs;
• images created using vector graphics software,
• images drawn using a mouse, stylus, or fingers on graphic tablets.
• 3D art.

Elements and principles of art, color theory, swatches, visual communication, figure-ground perception, gestalt laws, perceptual organization, stamps, stencils, prints, posters, supergraphics, applied art pieces, content illustration, concepts expression, visualization, illustrative line work, book covers, interiors, visual plans and drafts, functional drawing, prototypes, graphic design, fashion design, needlework, decorative arts and crafts.

Design - an arrangement of elements or details in a work of art or a product, the creative art of executing aesthetic or functional visions.

Illustration - decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in print and digital published media.

Applied arts - design and decoration of practical objects to make them aesthetically pleasing.

Color theory in the visual arts is a practical guidance to color mixing, combinations, and applicatio for specific visual effects.

In 15th century CE, color theory principles first appeared in the writings of Leone Battista Alberti and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. In the beginning of 18th century, Isaac Newton's Opticks was published.

Before 1980s - my family of origin, birthplace, and circumstances.

Changing cultures taught me that people like to check where you came from to reduce their own barrier from your strangeness, and I am all for it. I love people's stories, and here is mine.

About 1980s - my early years of life, till the onset of puberty.

About 1990s - after puberty into early youth: my teenage years and early twenties.

Adolescence, growing up, is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development.

About 2000s - more of my determining years, mid and late twenties into thirties - my life in the West.

My own verse.

Verse is a metrical writing.

Poem - a verbal composition, in which the words are chosen for their sound and for ideas and images they suggest, and are arranged in separate lines, often ending in rhyme.

Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language. This form of art is thousands years old, and originated in Africa.

My short and longer texts, from notes to formal essays, with lists, facts, and opinions.

Essays - short literary compositions, presenting ideas in a non-fictional way.
Notes - brief records, especially written down to aid the memory; comments, explanations.

This is my weblog and personal journal: notable days and my lifestyle from running and swimming to frugan food, plus occasional informal reports and random anecdotes.

Journal - periodically and randomly published records of personal experiences and observations.

Anecdotes - brief accounts of an incident, stories with a point to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative.

My random video logs - videos from daily life and something notable to remember.

Featured Quotations

From the early teenage years, I educated myself by writing down my favorite passages from the books I read. Then I analyzed and systematized them, defining my own worldview. I lost my records during migrations, and this is my attempt to keep some of the sayings.

Quotes - expressions full of meaning or beauty, favorite or simply very interesting sayings, concepts, thoughts, ideas, understandings, notions, opinions, views, believes, intentions, and ideals.

I include here my favorite poems, lyrics, as well as koans, proverbs, and longer prose excerpts.

Poem - a verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in an imaginative way, characterized by language chosen for its sound and suggestive power, and by the use of  meter, metaphor, or rhyme.


Koan is a puzzling or paradoxical statement to be meditated upon, anecdote, question, or verbal exchanges.

I list here books I read, nowadays primarily e-books and audio-books.

Literature for me is an art form, writing that has both artistic and intellectual value. Literary fiction, mostly classic, I read overwhelmingly in the first part of my life - poetry and prose. Non-fiction is what I prefer now.

Notable works by interesting people and their lives and ideas: artists, scientists, poets, writers, teachers, inventors, lovers, gardeners, and other beings.

Cinema, Theater, Music, Dance, Talks

Under this category I keep:

• My favorite motion pictures like movies and animation movies, records of theatrical presentations, various good show on video, lectures, memorable talks, great interviews, and regular comedy and news shows.
  Cinematography is the art of motion photography and filming.
• My favorite compositions of sounds arranged in time; rhythms, melodies, and songs.
  Music - artistic auditory communication, instrumental or vocal tones, rhythm.
• My favorite choreography and dancers, including ballet.
  Dance - performing art of purposefully selected sequences of human movements that have aesthetic and symbolic value.


Miscellaneous favorite things and phenomena.

All about my little fruitarian orchard in Southern California, US planting zone 10a (extreme minimum temperature 30-35 F or -1 to 1.7 C, USDA Plant Hardiness Zone), founded in 2018. The growing surface is about 0.17 acre (or approximately 688 square meters), and more than half is taken by the native or already established plants, like yucca, pines, palms, schinus, and sago).

This tiny garden is located ~3.5 miles (~5.6 km) from the Pacific coastline, on a hill, and is exposed to strong winds - usually cold, bus sometimes from the desert, blazing southern Californian Sun, and significant daily temperature changes. Lots of wild life visits it, especially birds.

We have very little rain most of the year, and the city water here is very expensive because of the drought conditions. The native soils are very poor, with clay and rocks. I am building the soil up with compost, mulch, and other methods from permaculture, Hügelkultur, and other horticultural techniques.

Plants in my orchard that live many years. I concentrate on trees, bushes, and self-propagating patches.

This is my collections of snippets of scientific data related to fruitarianism, environment, and health - from scientific internet publications and other seemingly credible online sources, with links:

• concise knowledge summaries of results derived by scientific method,
• short aggregated definitions and overviews, citations, expert opinions. 

Sources: 

1. Primary sources, like governmental agencies, peer reviewed journals; 
2. Secondary sources, like scholarly articles and expert reviews;
3. Tertiary sources, like encyclopedias, dictionaries, and textbooks.

Data - factual information used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation.
Knowledge - the body of truth, information, and principles acquired by humankind.
Definition - a statement of the meaning of a term.

• Materials from the Fruitarian network of practicing fruitarians, people considering fruitarian lifestyle, supporters and researchers of the fruitarian community.
• Fruitarian discussions - talking about fruitarianism, exchanging fruitarian ideas - conversations and debate about fruitarian topics.
• Plus, interesting people answer fruitarian questions and my responses to publications from a perspective of my version of fruitarianism.