Art Portfolio by Anna Maria Karolak. Polish Art Now.

Educational Manifesto. How the Education System Ignores the Educational Needs of Young Artists - About Entrance Exams to Fine Arts High Schools and the Academy of Fine Arts. The book about teaching and learning of fine arts - artistic education - exams to the Academy of Fine Arts. Designing the pages of the book in accordance with the principle of the golden ratio.

Educational Manifesto

The Art of Sketching: The art of making a sketch. A guide on how to develop skills in artistic drawing in order to successfully pass the entrance exam to an art high school or the Academy of Fine Arts in Poland. Author of the book: Anna Maria Karolak.

The Art of Sketching

Pegasus 5 from The Illusions cycle, 2024, marker drawing on paper, Anna Maria Karolak. Artistic anatomical sketch of a horse, artistic marker sketch - pegasus drawing. Polish School of Illustration - Polish Drawing School.

The Illusions II

The Illusion 4 from The Illusions cycle, 2024, pencil drawing, Anna Maria Karolak. Artistic pencil sketch - artistic pencil drawing. Polish Drawing School - Polish Art Now.

The Illusions I

The Illusion 18 from The Illusions cycle, 2024, pencil drawing on paper, Anna Maria Karolak. Artistic sketch - artistic drawing with a pencil. Polish School of Illustration - Polish Drawing School.

Pencil drawings, sketches

Onirisme Art - the Phantom II from the Phatoms series, pencil drawing, Anna Maria Karolak, 2000.

Phantoms

Metaphysical Surrealism - Siste, viator X/III from the Siste, viator (Stop, traveler) graphic series, 2016, digital art, Anna Maria Karolak.

Evolutions of illustrative motifs II

Fairy Tale Illustrations - The Wizard's Castle by Anna Maria Karolak. Marker drawing.

Fairy tale illustrations

Metaphysical Art - Siste, viator VI/IV from the Siste, viator (Stop, traveler) graphic series, digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak.

Evolutions of illustrative motifs I

Baudelaire Illustrations - the Imaginations XIX/II from the Spleen II graphic series inspired by The Voice poem of Charles Baudelaire. Digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak.

Spleen II

Onirisme Art - the Spleen III/II from the Spleen I graphic series inspired by the Beyond Redemption poem of Charles Baudelaire. Digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak.

Spleen I

Surrealism in Art - the Imaginations XXII/II from the Imaginations II graphic series inspired by the Evviva l`arte! poem of Kazimierz Przerwa–Tetmajer. Digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak.

Imaginations II

Surreal Self Portrait - the Imaginations XII from the Imaginations I graphic series inspired by the Evviva l`arte! poem of Kazimierz Przerwa–Tetmajer. Digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak.

Imaginations I

Surreal Art - the Cosmic trees XXVII/II/II from the Cosmic trees III graphic series, digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak.

Cosmic trees III

Metaphysical Surrealism - the Cosmic trees VIII/II/IV from the Cosmic trees II graphic series, digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak.

Cosmic trees II

Dark Surreal Art - the Cosmic trees I from the Cosmic trees I graphic series, digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak. Symbolic Art inspired by cosmology and metaphysics.

Cosmic trees I

Onirisme Art - the Evviva l`arte XIV from the Evviva l`arte II graphic series, digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak.

Evviva l`arte II

Surreal Self Portrait - the Evviva l`arte II from the Evviva l`arte I graphic series inspired by the Evviva l`arte! poem of Kazimierz Przerwa–Tetmajer. Digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak.

Evviva l`arte I

Magical Realism Art: Imaginations II/II from the Siste, viator (Stop, traveler) graphic series, digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak, 2012.

Siste, viator

Art Portfolio - The Mirror of Life - the artistic illustration by Anna Maria Karolak, 2009, created for the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, the University of Wroclaw (Poland).

The Mirror of Life

Art Portfolio - The Lizard, digital painting. Magical Realism Art by Anna Maria Karolak

Fantasy art

Educational Board Game about Polish Composers titled Magicians of Classical Music. Graphic design of the game: Anna Maria Karolak. Here: game board design.

Educational Board Game about Polish Composers

Album cover design for heavy metal music by Anna Maria Karolak, the VII/II/II version of illustration for this project, digital painting, 2015. Art Portfolio - Heavy Metal Art.

Album cover design

NAVIA logo

Creative Blog Design by Anna Maria Karolak. It is the IV project of one of the post from my blog, in the fragment.

Designing my art blog

Artistic Web Design by Anna Maria Karolak. Here: the 04 illustration for the fullscreen hero area for the one of the portfolio single page of this website in 2017.

Illustration style in web design

Medieval style art - here: the 01 artistic illustration for the one of the ealier projects of the Gallery page for this website. Digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak.

Medieval style art

Egg Tempera Painting and Gilding - Pastiche of the Altar of St. Barbara from 1447, painted basing on the original at the National Museum in Warsaw, the I/II/IV fragment, Anna Maria Karolak.

Egg tempera painting with gilding

Portrait Oil Painting - The Temptation, oil painting on panel, Anna Maria Karolak, 2001, image 11/3. Traditional techniques in painting.

The Temptation - oil painting

Surreal Art - Demiurge, oil painting on canvas, Anna Maria Karolak, 2000, image 07/2.

Demiurge - oil on canvas

Artistic Website - the 01 fragment of the Home page layout for this website in 2014 - 2016. Artistic illustrations and Web Design by Anna Maria Karolak.

Web art VI

Building an Website for Artist - the 01 fragment of the 02 Home Page Layout for this website in 2014. Artistic illustrations and Web Design by Anna Maria Karolak.

Web art IV

Artist Website Design - the Art Gallery page layout for the website project with my Portfolio in 2012, in the fragment. Digital painting and web design by Anna Maria Karolak.

Web art II

Artist Website Design - the Imaginations III, one of my illustrations intended for the background for my Biography page in this website in 2012. Digital painting, Anna Maria Karolak.

Web art I

Dark Surreal Art - The Atomic Life, oil painting on canvas, 84 x 67 cm, 2006.

Atomic Life - oil on canvas

Onirisme Art Illustrations - the Thanatos VI from the Thanatos graphic series, digital painting, 2009, Anna Maria Karolak, the 01 fragment of this work.

Thanatos

Art Portfolio - Self Portrait II, digital art, 2012, Anna Maria Karolak. The art inspired by the Voice poem of Charles Baudelaire.

Self-portraits

BB-8 Droid Art - BB-8 as an Artist I, funny drawing by Anna Maria Karolak. Drawings for BB-8 Fans.

BB-8 as an artist

Bornholm in art - Bornholm / Nexo, marker pen drawing, Anna Maria Karolak, 2021. and Kołobrzeg sketches, Hammershus sketches. Landscape drawings by Anna Maria Karolak

Bornholm and Kołobrzeg

A day in the life of a freelance artist, a marker pen on a paper. Funny drawings by Anna Maria Karolak.

A day in the life of a freelance artist

Art Portfolio - The Art of Ex Libris by Anna Maria Karolak. Here: one of my ex libris in the catalogue of the exhibition International Review of Digital Bookplates Ex DIGITALIS Salon 2019 organized by the Centre Of Contemporary Art (CCA) in Toruń (Poland).

Bookplate design

Dark Surreal Art - the Mutant IV by Anna Maria Karolak, digital art, 2019. It is an oil painting project.

Mutant

Stanisław Moniuszko as a conductor II - satirical drawing by Anna Maria Karolak. Marker drawing, 2019.

Stanisław Moniuszko

Fairy Tale Art - The Pirates XX, marker pen drawing, Anna Maria Karolak.

Pirates, highlanders, sad cockroaches and more

Pirates Funny Drawings by Anna Maria Karolak: The Pirates X/III, marker pen drawing. These are illustrations made for the for the Przekrój Polish cultural magazine.

Pirates

First contact, drypoint, print no 3/4, 1994, Anna Maria Karolak. The Art from Poland, Polish School of Illustration - magical realism. Polish Art Now.

First contact

Dead Marshes etching and monotype, print no 2/5, 1994, Anna Maria Karolak. Polish School of Illustration - magical realism. Polish Art Now.

Dead Marshes - part I

Dead Marshes etching and monotype, print no 1/5, 1994, Anna Maria Karolak. Polish School of Illustration - magical realism. Polish Art Now.

Dead Marshes - part II

Other worlds, etching with aquatint, print no 2/5, 1995, Anna Maria Karolak. The Art from Poland, Polish School of Illustration - magical realism. Polish Art Now.

Other worlds

The Riddle, drypoint, Anna Maria Karolak, 1994. Traditional graphic techniques - Graphic Art.

Hell's Vestibule

Artistic Toy - The Cat by Anna Maria Karolak. It is the toy with elements of movement. Image 21.

The Cat - art toy

Doll House - The Doll and Her House by Anna Maria Karolak, 1995. Artistic Toy. Image 05.

Doll House - art toy

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