Alice in Woderland
Surrealistic
Fun
Weird
Whimsical
Fantasy
Experiment
From the Heart
Intriguing
Thought -Provoking
Collages For Fun
My collages blend whimsy, creativity, and vibrant colours, radiating happiness and fun. Only originals, no prints.
Original Paintings
I prioritize originality, ensuring my work stands out. Bold and colourful, it transports viewers to a grand fairy tale world. Only original paintings.
Historical Jewelry
Can you imagine wearing a piece of history? A pendant from the times of Alexander the Great? A Viking amulet? Yes, you can find all of these and more in the Artefact Collection
Art Lessons (Aylmer)
Professional drawing and painting lessons for children and adults in Gatineau (Aylmer).
Professional Art Lessons For Children And Adults in Gatineau (Aylmer)
I have been teaching art classes since 2009 when I was residing in Vancouver, and have successfully guided over 2,000 students, many of whom have been accepted into art schools and showcased their work. Now, I am based in the Outaouais region (Gatineau, Aylmer) and excited to offer private and group lessons. My goal is to help you discover your unique style and artistic potential.
I provide various lesson formats to suit your needs:
– Atelier-style lessons: Flexible learning tailored to your inspirations and pace, ideal for skill development.
– Fundamental Courses (starting January 2025): Structured lessons covering essential theoretical and practical art principles for self-taught artists.
– Portfolio Preparation: Focused sessions to help you create a strong portfolio.
– Special workshops: Coming in 2025.
For inquiries, please email elena.nahum.leroy@gmail.com. Examples of what we do can be found in galleries of children’s and adults’ works.
Collages for Fun
What is Collage? It is a form of art that involves arranging and pasting different materials onto a surface to create a new and unique image. Technically, now all graphic design is a kind of collage art, but in digital form. Some mixed media projects use elements of collage.
To me, this technique is fun and it opens wide creative opportunities. It’s faster to make, easier to twist things around, and always unique. Collage is also a challenge because I have to match a lot of things, from composition and proportions to material use.
Some collages I’m making have no specific purpose other than bring some positive emotions to your (and my) life. While others have deeper meanings and have encoded messages that require some knowledge of history, literature, and art movements.
Bright Collages About Everyday Life
Jasmine, The Tea Fairy
$75.00As the guardian of tea, Jasmine possesses a unique ability to enhance the flavors of every brew. With a gentle wave of her wand, she infuses each cup with the essence of the finest ingredients, ensuring that every sip is an unforgettable experience. Her passion for tea is evident as she lovingly tends to her tea plants, whispering secrets of flavor and aroma that only she can unlock.
8×8 in
Collage on board
Back Home To My Pets
$40.00How nice it is to come home and know that someone is waiting for you there.
6 x 6 in
Collage on a cradleboard
No Sugar Kids
$40.00That’s a never-ending topic between the parents and the kids.
6 x 6 in
Collage on a cradleboard
B. Potter Books Lover
$40.00Vintage and sweet, as in all the stories by Beatrix Potter.
6 x 6 in
Collage on a cradleboard
Together Again
$65.00Little arguments happen just to feel happier from being together again.
8 x 8 in
2024
The Magician And Her Genie
The Magician And Her Genie
The power of the sun and the stars, resources from magic and a little help from a weird genie are the secrets of true magic.
8 x 8 in
2024
The Designer
The Designer
A designer’s job can be creative and can be tough as picking ideas to follow is not easy. But cats have nine lives to try many choices.
8 x 8 in
2024
Portal
$40.00Travelling between the worlds can be easy, even if it’s the jungles created by Russeau.
6 x 6 in
2024
Missing The Family
$65.00It doesn’t matter how adventurous, fun or just nice the time is outside the home, it will be a moment when we start missing the families we came from or we left behind.
8 x 8 in
2024
Meditation
Meditation
Ommmm
6 x 6 in
2024
Original Oil and Acrylic Painting
I’m painting primarily in oil and watercolour and depicting conceptual ideas using a variety of techniques and materials. And, of course, I love painting with my handmade paints to make my paintings very own.
I’m not selling prints of oil or acrylic paintings as all them have unique texture and finishing. So, you’ll be the only owner of my artwork. No copies. All paintings go with free Canada-wide shipping.
Original Paintings
Alice and Absolem
$6,000.00Alice finds herself in a surreal underwater realm, a vivid manifestation of her dreams where reality and imagination intertwine. Surrounded by shimmering bubbles and swirling currents, she feels the weight of her tears, which have transformed into a vast ocean, reflecting her emotions and experiences.
This oil painting combines three oil paintings I accomplished in 2012-2016, collaged and repainted into one large piece.
Oil painting on canvas and wood.
30 x 60 in, 2022-2024
Deep And High
$400.00This painting is about serenity and depth -the beauty of both dimensions.
16 x 20 in
2024, oil on canvas
Deep And High
$350.00This paitnign is about serenity and the depth -the beauty of both dimensions.
16 x 20 in
2024, acrylic
Alice in Wonderland: Cheshire Cat After Transformation
$500.00Cheshire Cat is one more original oil painting from the Alice in Wonderland series. As everything in a dreamland-wonderland is getting distorted and weird, the Cheshire Cat is not an exclusion. After disappearing and re-appearing so many times his physical shape changed badly.
Oil on canvas, 2024
18×24 in
In The Park In Ottawa
$300.00I painted this work in the Commissioners Park during the 2024 Tulip Festivals. The spring was early, so most of the tulips were gone, but the trees were still magnificent and fresh.
Oil on canvas, 2024
11 x 14 in
Tsawwassen
$700.00
The Spring Of 2021
$380.00the Spring 2021 painting depicts the most wonderful season in Vancouver – spring, but being unable to enjoy the season.
Oil on canvas, 2023
16×20 in
The Eyes – A Tiger
$70.00The Eyes series include works from 2016, when, after some break in oil painting, I was working on transformation from realism to my own style.
4 x 6 in
Oil on canvas paper, 2016, framed
The Eyes – A Puffin
$70.00The Eyes series include works from 2016, when, after some break in oil painting, I was working on transformation from realism to my own style.
4 x 6 in
Oil on canvas paper, 2016, framed
The Eyes – A Panther
$70.00The Eyes series include works from 2016, when, after some break in oil painting, I was working on transformation from realism to my own style.
4 x 6 in
Oil on canvas paper, 2016, framed
The Eyes – A Red Panda
$70.00The Eyes series include works from 2016, when, after some break in oil painting, I was working on transformation from realism to my own style.
4 x 6 in
Oil on canvas paper, 2016, framed
Linocut Prints
What is Linocut? It’s one of many printmaking techniques when you carve a sheet of linoleum and then, using different inks and surfaces, create prints. Even if you use the same carving block, the prints will always look slightly (or not slightly) different as you can use a variety of colours, bring some correction to carving, use different textures and many other things.
In linocut, the most time-consuming part of the work is carving. After a lino sheet is ready, printing takes less time and efforts. My linocut prints are very affordable.
Original Lino Prints
Illustrations To Books and Cards
“With your work, I want to decorate the childhood of my kids”, said one of my buyers. And I’m working on that. New books for children, creative cards with humour, and crazy magnets are coming up. Check them. If you got my messages, my goal is achieved.
Creative Illustrations
Bird’s Visit Greeting Card
$5.00This nice square 5.5 x 5.5 in greeting card is a unique complement to any of your gifts.
Includes envelope.
Giraffe Inventor Greeting Card
$5.00This nice square 5.5 x 5.5 in greeting card is a unique complement to any of your gifts.
Includes envelope.
Readers Greeting Card
$5.00This nice square 5.5 x 5.5 in greeting card is a unique complement to any of your gifts.
Includes envelope.
Medusa Greeting Card
$5.00This nice square 5.5 x 5.5 in greeting card is a unique complement to any of your gifts.
Includes envelope.
Rhino Holidays
$5.00Size: 5.5″ x 5.5″, comes with an envelope
We can send any greeting card priced $5+ with a custom message from you to any address in Canada FREE. Let us know when you’re placing your order. We will contact you about this option anyway.
Undersea Holidays
$5.00Size: 5.5″ x 5.5″, comes with an envelope
We can send any greeting card priced $5+ with a custom message from you to any address in Canada FREE. Let us know when you’re placing your order. We will contact you about this option anyway.
Thanksgiving With Farmer John
$5.00Size: 5.5″ x 5.5″, comes with an envelope
We can send any greeting card priced $5+ with a custom message from you to any address in Canada FREE. Let us know when you’re placing your order. We will contact you about this option anyway.
Weird Artists
$2.20Thinking the way Alice and Cheshire Cat do if we assume that the world is normal, the artists look weird. However, if we change the point of reference and assume that artists are normal, them the world will look weird.
That’s how it works for us. I’m sure, most of the artists were part of these conversations you can find in my Weird Artists series of cards.
4.2″ x 5.5″, uncoated, one side (unfolded) cards.
Weird Artists
$2.20Thinking the way Alice and Cheshire Cat do if we assume that the world is normal, the artists look weird. However, if we change the point of reference and assume that artists are normal, them the world will look weird.
That’s how it works for us. I’m sure, most of the artists were part of these conversations you can find in my Weird Artists series of cards.
4.2″ x 5.5″, uncoated, one side (unfolded) cards.
Jewelry With History
Every piece of jewelry from this site is unique. As a designer, I am sure it’s important to never replicate my creations. What you see here is what you’ll get. No copies. No repetition. No mass production. Only original pieces. Of course, the flip side of this is that if it’s sold, it is gone for good.
Please check my Artefact Collection as pieces from there are the perfect gifts for the special persons in your life who have everything. Can you imagine them wearing a piece of history? A pendant from the times of Alexander the Great? A Viking amulet? Early Christian religious relics? Yes, you can find all of this right here.
My hot enamel jewelry brings some colors to metalwork. You can find styles and colors that match your mood: from minimalist sterling silver pendants to bold and colorful boho-style necklaces. With hot enamel everything is possible.
And yes, I can make custom jewelry for you. Ask for a quote, I’m always reasonable.
Hand-Made Jewelry
A Snail On A Leaf
$55.00This little pendant is hand-made from scratch and has an element of hot enamel.
Materials: silver (pure and sterling), enamel
En Rouge
$65.00This bright neckalce features copper hot-enamelled ceterpiece decorated with bamboo coral and copper beads. For a better look, it’s paired with hook earrings. The hooks are sterling silver and the beading components are copper.
Materials: bamboo coral, copper, enamel, sterling silver.
Dalmatian
$65.00This chocker necklae is elegant and features dalmaian jasper with black spinel spacer beads and sterling silver details.
Materials: sterling silver, dalmatian jasper, black spinel
Blue Arrow
$75.00This elegant necklace is made with sterling silver vintage used-to-be earring that I enamelled and turned into a pendant. Memory wire keeps the shape of the neclace which is feels much lighter with the support of the shape.
Materials: sterling silver, enamel, aquamarine apatite.
Hand-made by Ottawa-Gatineau based artist.
Apatite And Crown
$80.00This necklace features a hand-made silver crown with yellow faceted apatites and genuine natural turquoise stones. The memory wire holds the shape of the necklace and reduces the feeling of weight on the neck.
Mayan Jade
$65.00This necklace is a product of work by two artists: native Yucatec stone carver and myself. To enhance the beauty of the carving, I incorporated Canadian jade beads and special bull bone elements, carefully selected to evoke a sense of wild and free personality.
Materials: jade, sterling silver, bone
Aqua Leaf
Aqua Leaf
This sterling silver minimalist necklace is a perfect choice for an elegant gift. I have several of those, so the exact look may vary slightly. Each pendant has 3-4 cycles of firing and the final look is all in Gefest’s hands.
Pendant size: approx 1 cm
Comes with 16 in sterling silver chain and a gift box.
Greek Owl
Greek Owl
These pendants copy an Ancient Greek coin. I have several of those, so the exact look may vary slightly. Each pendant has 3-4 cycles of firing and the final look is all in Gefest’s hands.
Pendant size: approx 1 cm
Comes with 16 in sterling silver chain and a gift box.
Silver Snail
$80.00This Little snail is made of 999 Silver and hand-crafted by me for positive energy and a reminder that slow life is what we need.
Comes with 18 in sterling silver chain.
Humming Bird
$85.00The Humming Bird necklace features a pewter hand-made by First Nations artist pendant that I framed with beautiful gemstones of the sky colour.
Materials: pewter, palis lazuli, amazonite, agate
Buy With Confidence
Being a creative artist, I’m using many inspiring techniques, from classical painting to whimsical collages. Here, you’ll find original oil and acrylic paintings, original collages, illustrated books and cards, as well as other forms of art.
We’re living in a big world now, where being online is the norm. Everyone likes free shipping* and I’m offering it.
- Orders going to ON or QC (Canada) – $8.99 or free shipping for orders $75+
- Orders going to other provinces of Canada – $10.50 or free for orders $100+
- Orders going to the USA – $15 or free for orders $150+
- We can send any greeting card priced $5+ with a custom message from you to any address in Canada FREE.
Please email me for shipping options to other countries.
* total before taxes and shipping, and after all discounts
