In Love With Stopped Time (2025) Original Pastel Drawing by Maxim Bondarenko

In Love With Stopped Time is a flower-crowned male nude rendered in oil pastel with a dark, velvety ground. The bouquet is loud—yellow roses, crimson blooms, greens, and white petals—while the body below is built slowly in layered violet, brown, and cool blue. From a distance the figure reads sculptural; up close you see the grain of pigment and the rubbed transitions that make the skin feel alive.

This piece is made for rooms where you want intensity without noise: a bedroom, a studio, a private hallway. The dark background keeps the work intimate and focused, and the floral crown adds a strange tenderness—part celebration, part mask. It’s a portrait that refuses the easy “face,” letting gesture, posture, and color carry the emotion.

Materials used:

Black paper

Details:

• Pastel drawing on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 30.48 x 45.72 x 0.25cm (unframed)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Nudes and erotic