Aleksander Żywiecki is a plein air artist. He participated in plein air sessions in Poland in such places as the Biebrza Valley, Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, Polesie, the Białowieża Forest and Ujście Warty National Park. In the years 2008 and 2009 he traveled several times to the Ukraine to the regions of the former Kresy (Eastern Borderlands). At that period he made multiple drawings and oil paintings presenting the Dniestr landscape. Among the paintings created at that time is The Dniestr at Mariampol at Dusk, which is one of the most prominent works in the output of that artist.