Positive Gallery

by OlSy

Instagram: @firlefanzo
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On this website I will be showing my art. It is mostly naive art inspired by fairytales, myths, and fantasies. All paintings are my own ideas, painted with acrylic paints on canvas. Childish, whimsical, crazy, dreamy, weird, kind.

I'm putting it there for your enjoyment and entertainment. If you would like to contact me about my art with inquiries, ideas, questions, requests, you can do so at positive.gallery.info (at) gmail.com

I hope my art lightens up your day like it does my home. Wishing you sunshine, OlSy.

"Fish Carnival Fashion" (German "Fischiger Fasching"), an extremely fishy masquerade party with a strict dresscode. If you were wondering whether fish can party hard, with confetti and costumes, now you know the truth - they can and they do. Even if some of them stay grumpy. Some fish are just never happy! The painting was actually inspired not so much by fish celebration traditions and their personalities as by the curious names some fish have, like lion fish, sun fish and what not. If clown fish is a thing, why isn't rabbit fish, or turtle fish, or peacock fish, or bear fish for that matter? And why does almost every sentence here have fish in it?"
Acrylic on canvas, 60x80cm, finished on December 14, 2018. Available. Contact me at positive.gallery.info at gmail.com, or on Instagram or Etsy.

"Bird Face", the collective image of all the parakeets I used to have as a kid as well as those I keep seeing on the Web. They are happy, cheerful, cute little clown warriors in a wig.
Acrylic on canvas, 40x60cm, finished on November 30, 2018. Available. Contact me at positive.gallery.info at gmail.com, or on Instagram or Etsy.

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"The Pineapple Crocodile drinking Club Mate", the sunny metrosexual crocodile from Berlin.
Acrylic on canvas, 40x40cm, finished on September 8, 2018. Available. Contact me at positive.gallery.info at gmail.com, or on Instagram or Etsy.

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"Opposites Attract", two flower hedgehogs. That's how far my doodles take me sometimes :)
Acrylic on canvas, 40x40cm, finished on July 1, 2018. Available. Contact me at positive.gallery.info at gmail.com, or on Instagram or Etsy.

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"Digital but_a_fly", my butterfly painting inspired by a silver vintage brooch I own. I try to find inspiration everywhere around me.
Acrylic on canvas, 40x40cm. Available. Contact me at positive.gallery.info at gmail.com, or on Instagram or Etsy.

I'm having trouble finding the right colors for my #butterfly #painting . I think the name will be something like "LED Butterfly". I want it to look kinda #digital but also #natural . A digital #bug is far away from the original inspiration, my #vintage #brooch 😁 #art #artwork #artistoninstagram #kunst #kunstwerk #led #ledlights #schmetterling #flower #poppy #instadaily

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This is my painting currently in progress. It's a butterfly inspired by a silver vintage brooch I own. I try to find inspiration everywhere around me.
Acrylic on canvas, 40x40cm. Will be availabe as soon as it's finished (probably by June, 2018). Contact me at positive.gallery.info at gmail.com, or on Instagram or Etsy.

My new painting "Curly Whirly Birdy Bird Blue". This bird better stay away from wind, otherwise it will become Tangled Frizzled Birdy Bird Blue! It's not easy being pretty. Just fresh off my easel, this painting was finished on May 3, 2018.
Acrylic on canvas, 50x70cm. Available. Contact me at positive.gallery.info at gmail.com, or on Instagram or Etsy.

My painting "The Sleeping Lion". I have several sleeping animals in the collection. They are so cute when they are asleep! Because when that lion wakes up - who knows what he's going to do! Painted back in 2013. Now resides in a private collection in the USA.
Acrylic on canvas, 50x40cm. Sold. Contact me if you want a creative copy at positive.gallery.info at gmail.com, or on Instagram or Etsy.


My painting "Count on the Sheep" was the first ever acrylic painting I created back in 2013. You know how you are supposed to count sheep if you lay in bed, restless, and struggle to fall asleep? Well, my Sheep is right here to the rescue! You can count on the sleepy Sheep to put you right to sleep :).
Acrylic on canvas, 30x25cm. Available. Contact me at positive.gallery.info at gmail.com, or on Instagram or Etsy.


My painting "The Little Sun Ladybug" is inspired by a cute song the kindergarden-aged children sing in Russian that goes like this, "Little sun, little sun, fly up in the sky, there your children are eating candy". Ladybug (or ladybird) has a funny name in Russian: it is called God's little cow or little sun when translated word for word. The young children sing the song to the ladybug sitting on their hand so that that the silly bug would know to take off and fly away to its cute little children. After all, children are not supposed to eat too much candy - it's bad for their teeth and tummies!
This particular ladybug has some very special black spots inspired by the ancient Trypillian symbols from the Trypillian culture. The symbols should bring luck, wealth, and health to the ladybug and its onlookers.
Also, have you ever heard the expression "as cute as a bug's ear" ? Well, now you know what a ladybug's ear looks like. Isn't it cute, with its tiny pearl earring?
Acrylic on canvas, 50x40cm. Available. Contact me at positive.gallery.info at gmail.com, or on Instagram or Etsy.