Svetlana Belova: portrait painter

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

For twenty years now, Svetlana Belova has been painting portraits to order from photographs. She has a higher art education. She can order men's, women's, children's, couples' portraits, as well as with her beloved four-legged friend.

Technique:

• Dry brush in black and white or brown.
• Pencil.
• Butter.

All portraits are masterfully executed, and this despite the fact that Svetlana Belova paints them unusually quickly: from one to five hours. A photograph 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 wedding, and she will immediately sit down to work. The holiday will continue, and the portrait will be ready.

The spectacle of its creation will fascinate many. It can be immediately rolled up without waiting for the paint to fix. The most popular sizes for portraits of one person are 35x45 cm, 40x50 cm, 50x60 cm, for a double - the last two sizes. The frames for them are selected by the artist herself. "Dry brush" is issued underglass and oil in a baguette.

Oil or dry brush portrait

Svetlana Belova paints portraits with Dutch oil paints on primed Italian canvas in classical technique. The product is obtained not for one dozen years. It will be passed on to 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 a knight's armor.

One-color or multi-color portrait in the "dry brush" technique is also written in oil, but on a special textured paper.

Warm tones are obtained by using sepia brown. Cool shades of black (thioindigo) look no less wonderful and noble. Portraits in this technique are cheaper than oil ones.

If the portrait should depict one person, then it takes an average of three days to work, and if two, then the period can be a week. This is the maximum.

What a photo should look like

It is more than desirable to submit a medium size digital photograph. Then you don't even have to print it.

Artist Svetlana Belova believes that you can send a few more photos in addition. Then the character and appearance for the portrait painter will be clearer. The most important thing, Svetlana Belova believes, is a photograph with a high-quality image of the face, everything else is not so important. You can always have someRemove or add details. As a result, when receiving a portrait, the customer will receive a lot of positive emotions. This point should not be discounted either: at the time of painting, its cost is relatively low, and over the years it has been constantly increasing.

Couple portraits

The most wonderful time is marriage. When the young are sprinkled with coins and confetti, the bride holds in her hands an amazing bouquet that falls down like a waterfall, and the groom has a boutonniere to match him. An exchange of rings, a loaf with s alt on it, the first glasses of champagne raised…

Then the birth of a baby and the observation of parents as their child grows up. Birthdays are celebrated for him, a Christmas tree is set up for the New Year, and the child sees how reverently and joyfully his parents treat him. All this leaves a bright imprint on his future life.

It happens that life has scattered family members in different cities, and they do not gather often. But everyone remembers their family traditions, which held them together when everyone sat at the same table and discussed the news of the past day. This is usually transferred to the newly created family as well, so the good traditions continue.

All moments of a 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, everyone who looks at family portraits will always feel warm and joyful.

The works that the artist Svetlana Belova writes, portrait paintings, will forever preserve the features of beloved affectionate grandparents, charming and beautiful mothers and courageous serious fathers, lovely children.

With a four-legged friend

The life of a dog or cat is very short compared to that of a human. But how much joy, happiness and pride is brought to its owner by his four-legged friend, who understands him from a half-look, from a slight movement of his hand or a nod of his head. How he looks with intelligent eyes into the eyes of the owner, silently asking: “What are we going to do now? Is this possible? How cheerful he is when the owner plays with him! These are the moments you want to capture for the rest of your life.

Everything is possible if Belova Svetlana takes up the brush. The artist (Moscow) will stop the moment, and your beloved friend will always remain with you, who will support you in difficult times, reminding you of the joys that you experienced together. What will remain is not the bitterness of loss, but the light that comes from your friendship.

Portrait lessons

Svetlana Belova created a studio where she teaches to draw from scratch, even those who have never held a pencil or a brush in their lives. Any schoolchild, student or pensioner can come to her and try their hand.

The artist reveals in the student such potentials that he himself did not suspect. She draws both with a pencil and with brushes, forgetting about everyday life, plunging into the forever exciting world of art. At the end of the lesson, you will get a portrait that you never dreamed of. It will be correctly positioned ona sheet of paper, and your "nature" will have a slight smile, beautiful eyes, curly eyelashes.

Each student has an individual lesson, the artist always tells how to correct mistakes, and everyone leaves her studio with "masterpieces" created by their own hands.

Svetlana Belova lives and works in Moscow, but you can contact her from anywhere in the country.