For twenty years, Svetlana Belova has been painting portraits to order from photographs. She has a higher art education. She can order male, female, children's, paired portraits, as well as with her beloved four-legged friend.
Technique:
- “Dry brush” in black and white or brown.
- Pencil.
- Oil.
All portraits are masterfully executed, and this despite the fact that Svetlana Belova paints them unusually quickly: from one to five hours. Photography will never replace a real portrait and will not leave such a long memory of a loved one. An artist in Moscow can be invited to a birthday or a wedding, and she will instantly sit down for work. The holiday will continue, and the portrait will be ready.
The spectacle of its creation fascinates many. It can be immediately rolled up without waiting for the paint to fix. The most popular sizes of portraits of one person are 35x45 cm, 40x50 cm, 50x60 cm, for the double - the last two sizes. The frames for them are selected by the artist herself. A "dry brush" is made out under glass, and oil - in a baguette.
Oil painting or dry brush
Svetlana Belova paints portraits of Dutch oil paints on primed Italian canvas in classical technique. The work is obtained not for one dozen years. It will be inherited by children and grandchildren. The customer decides for himself whether he wants to see this work written in large strokes or, on the contrary, deepened into the smallest details. Such a work can be performed in a modern interior or in an old dress of past centuries or in the armor of a knight.
A plain or multi-color portrait using the “dry brush” technique is also painted in oil, but on special textured paper.
Warm shades are obtained using brown sepia. No less wonderful and noble look coolish shades of black (thioindigo). Portraits in this technique are cheaper than oil.
If one person should be depicted in the portrait, then it takes an average of three days to work, and if two, then the period can be a week. This is maximum.
What should be the photo
It is more than desirable to present a photograph in medium-sized digital format. Then you can not even print it.
Artist Svetlana Belova believes that in addition you can send a few more photos. Then the character and appearance for the portraitist will be clearer. Most importantly, according to Svetlana Belova, a photograph with a high-quality image of the face, everything else is not so important. You can always remove or add some details. As a result, upon receipt of the portrait, the customer will receive a lot of positive emotions. Such a moment should not be discounted: at the time of painting, its cost is relatively low, and over the years it is constantly increasing.
Pair portraits
The most wonderful time is marriage. When young people are sprinkled with coins and confetti, the bride holds an amazing bouquet in her hands, which falls down by a waterfall, and the groom has a boutonniere matching his tone. Exchange of rings, a loaf of salt on it, the first glasses of champagne raised ...
Then the birth of the baby and the observation of the parents as their child grows up. He is celebrated with birthdays, a Christmas tree is set for the New Year, and the child sees how his parents are anxious and happy about him. All this leaves a bright imprint on his future life.
It happens that family members scattered life in different cities, and they do not gather often. But everyone remembers their family traditions, which held them together when everyone was sitting at the same table and discussing the news of the day. This is usually transferred to a newly created family, as good traditions continue.
All moments of harmonious life remain in the photographs, but how wonderful it is to have portraits on all these topics. All of them are fully owned by Svetlana Belova. Any meetings, holidays - the artist will stop everything on canvas or paper. Gradually, you can create a whole family gallery. When looking at her, it is always warm and joyful for everyone who looks at family portraits .
The works written by the artist Svetlana Belova, paintings, portraits, will forever retain the features of beloved affectionate grandfathers and grandmothers, charming and beautiful mothers and courageous serious dads, lovely children.
With a four-legged friend
The life of a dog or cat is very short compared to human. But how much joy, happiness and pride is brought to his master by his four-legged friend, who understands him from a half-glance, with a slight movement of his hand or a nod of his head. As he looks smartly into the eyes of the owner, silently asking: “What are we going to do now? Is it possible? ”! How happy he is when the owner plays with him! I want to capture such moments for the rest of my life.
Everything is possible if Svetlana Belova takes on the brush. The artist (Moscow) will stop the moment, and you will forever remain with your beloved friend who will support you in difficult times, recalling the joys that you experienced together. Not the bitterness of loss will remain, but the light coming from your friendship.
Portrait lessons
Svetlana Belova created a studio in which she teaches to draw from scratch even those who in life did not hold a pencil or a brush. Any schoolchild, student or senior citizen can come to her and try their hand.
The artist reveals in the student such potentials that he himself did not suspect. She is painted with a pencil and brushes, forgetting about everyday life, plunging into the world of art, forever exciting. At the end of the lesson you will get a portrait that you never dreamed of. It will be correctly located on a piece of paper, and your "nature" will have a slight smile, beautiful eyes, curved eyelashes.
An individual lesson is conducted with each student, the artist always tells how to fix mistakes, and everyone leaves her studio with “masterpieces” created by her own hands.
Svetlana Belova lives and works in Moscow, but you can contact her from anywhere in the country.