I took a break from two activities for almost 1.5 months: English and Youtube. Why? To concentrate as much as possible on starting co-operation with online galleries and to do a huge amount of work to start an online shop (my website) and a shop on Etsy. In general, there is a lot of work to do. And there is even more to do!

For over a month I have been working on online artist galleries. What I've been doing:
- Making a list and reading reviews of who I want to start collaborating with.
- I applied and waited for responses (some of the galleries need to be selected).
- I created profiles, uploaded my work, signed documents, filled out contracts (in Russian galleries. Western galleries do not require this).

Also, I finished my fourth children's book with illustrations! Whoo! It's already the fourth. I made a test print of the book, showed it to my son and made corrections to the illustrations (my son Lev is a very strict critic, it turns out).

Printed the first linocuts. Two kinds: the linocut with a bathtub and ‘In the Absence of a Husband. Self-exploration’. The third linocut was a terrible fiasco. Oooh. I'll try to either fix it, or I'll have to completely redo it by doing an inversion. That is not to cut out the girl's body, but to leave it intact. You'll find out more and laugh in the video 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMR-8VLCQ6I&t=5s