April 26 – official start of “Silver Easel”: in Teatralna Square, Uzhhorod the participants form capital letters of the contest’s name – “C” and “M”, release dozens of balloons into the sky, and start to work. Even the weather took pity on the talented young people at that day and the sun came out from the clouds – everything in order they can fully estimate and reflect the full range of colours of Uzhhorod now. Several hours of intensive work and the first task “Cityscape” was done! On that day Uzhhorod was full of impressions: almost all mass media wrote about “Silver Easel”, Jury was interviewed almost at every turn, residents and visitors of the city made selfie with participants to remember. The euphoria of colour, creative mood, and cherry blossom went on! The day ended with an interesting and eventful excursion for the participants to the Transcarpathian Regional Art Museum named after I. Bokshai. Now it is held there the exhibition of a native of Uzhhorod, Andrii Kartashov, entitled “The era of mercy. Realism 21”