The good news is that our illustration series has been selected as one of the 50 finalists for the 2021 Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition.

And now we found out that we won the Golden Pinwheel Grand Award (International), which is the grand prize, we are surprised and very happy!) 

You can see the award video here: 
http://ccbfgoldenpinwheel.com.cn/en/index/GoldenPinwheel-News/detail!2021GPWinners1 

Contest website: http://ccbfgoldenpinwheel.com.cn/en/index/GoldenPinwheel-News/detail!2021GPWinners1

Golden Pinwheel - the official competition of the Chinese Shanghai International Children's Book Fair (CCBF).

The illustrations were chosen from among 2,426 entries from 82 countries.

These works are devoted to the theme of the Russian village and the small motherland. Some of the works we made for the book "Our Land Breathes" by Evgeniya Basova.

Link to contest site:

http://ccbfgoldenpinwheel.com.cn/en/index/GoldenPinwheel-News/detail!ruweimingdan

Our Sketches and searches

A few photos from our travels, the impressions of which formed the basis of a series of illustrations.