Nikita Budkov

Oil on aluminum panel

12” x 12”

All sort of creatures come out after sunset in Boise National Forest.

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Oil on aluminum panel

12” x 12”

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Valley Fire was a wildfire that burned 9,904 acres in the Boise Foothills, Idaho on October 4, 2024, and it took nearly 3 weeks to fully contain it. It was burning not too far from my place and I was there to photograph for a future painting. Thankfully, no property or lives have been lost as the fire was pushed from the city to the mountain wilderness.

Oil on aluminum panel

12” x 12”

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Oil on aluminum panel

10" x 8"

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Oil on aluminum panel

14” x 14”

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Oil on aluminum panel

10” x 12”

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Oil on aluminum panel

6” x 8”

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Oil on linen canvas

28” x 24”


My memories of quail hunting with experienced friends and a dog named Rocky. Actually, the dog was not there, but he is a legit trained hunting dog and I wished to show him. I asked my friends to take off their orange blaze jackets for this painting - that color is understandably too unnaturally bright for what I wanted to depict.

Overall, this painting is something new for me. One may call it a Modern Western and I tend to agree with that. What matters is, I've felt an enormous satisfaction painting the age-old subject and will return to it more in the future.


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Oil on panel

12” x 12”

The painting depicts an uncommon So Cal phenomenon - a summer morning lightning in a sky. Can you see it? That day it drizzled a little bit and artists were gifted a few fantastic lightning flashes to paint. I was working under a bridge with a group and do not know if anybody else have seen it, but I immediately layed it on my panel. Also, LA River itself is quite fascinating, too. I still can't wrap my head around a millenia-old innovation of concrete canals and particularly how the normal vegetation is growing on it.

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Oil on canvas panel

16” x 12”

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Oil on canvas panel

12” x 12”

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Oil on panel

11”x 14”

2022 Halloween in Glendale, California was wild. Home Depot and other places were selling giant skeletons and lots of people put them on their yard. This beautiful house, however, placed them right over the sidewalk guarding the entrance to their property. The effect was staggering and I could not resist to paint such a composition after the sun set. The picture triggered dark fantasy emotions in my imaginations which I tried to carve in.

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Oil on panel

14” x 11”

A midday plein air painting of a gate to the local Japanese Tea House. I love the sunlight dancing on the ground and the roots of a foreground tree, I did not want to paint just the entrance hence I picked this angle to make it feel like you are peeping out.

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Oil on panel

12” x 16”

Malibu (and Santa Monica in the distance!) painting. The figure by the rock is a self portrait.

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Oil on panel

5” x 7”

A short plein air study back from December 2021, when I spent some time in one of my favorite towns in USA. I stood on a road in the midst of a vast windy field, and had to wrap up things pretty quickly because of the chill. The bridge follows the road to the St. Mary's University.

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Oil on canvas panel

14” x 18”

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Oil on canvas panel

9” x 12”

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Oil on canvas panel

8” x 16”

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Oil on canvas panel

9” x 12”

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Oil on canvas panel

10” x 8”

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Beside; Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, Zvenigorod, Russia

Oil on canvas panel

11.8" x 7.8"

“Nearing the end of the day I visited Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, a regional wonder, established in 1398. Located near my birth town Zvenigorod, this historic landmark stands proud on a hill which overlook broad sunny valleys and ancient Slavic forests. Moscow River flows just south from the monastery stronghold allowing this holy site to serve as both a defensive military picket and a point of pilgrimage.

As I set up my French easel and began painting, daily worship was near its end. Priests and believers rushed to finish their prayers and duties for the day. I believe I went unnoticed as I chased the light and captured antiquity.”

—Nikita Budkov

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Oil on panel

13.7” x 20”

A midnight nocturne in winter. A 2 hour plein air in the element I finalized later in my studio. An atmospheric, magical silent emotion of Russian winter under the moon.

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Oil on panel

16” x 20”

My love for the sublime, early 19th century romantic pictures concludes in painting fantasy landscapes of popular modern fandoms like The Elder Scrolls.

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Oil on panel

11.8” x 19.7”

A hazy, melancholic field in the village of Kezmino, Russia. I spent many childhood summers here, and even though the subject was painted in November, it still brings the sense of nostalgia to younger days.

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Oil on panel

11.8” x 19.7”

First days of snow. This is a famous Moscow River, looking from my grandparent’s house or “dacha”. The day was grey, and the wind was cold. Just what I need for an atmospheric painting!

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Oil on panel
15” x 15”

A plein air I began in one of the first days of frost in Russia. I was standing with my easel on ice and painting how the morning sun was delivering its vital light to the trees.

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Oil on canvas panel

9.8” x 13.7”

A seascape from Baltic Sea north of St. Petersburg, Russia. The wind was so strong, this painting fell in sand with easel. Twice.

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Oil on canvas panel

14” x 18”

Painted on my birthday in August 2020, this view immediately caught my attention when I was driving through the mountains after spending the whole day on one of the smaller Malibu beaches.

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Oil on panel

10” x 8”

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