Paintress

Japanese artist Maki Hino was born on may 4 on the evening of the full moon in Nagano Prefecture (Japan). Lives and works there. Maki started drawing paper dolls from early childhood. In 1993, she became interested in articulated dolls, and in 1997 decided that she would be engaged in dolls ...

I have already written about macrame in one of my articles, but it is simply impossible to put an end to this topic, because macrame causes a feeling of nostalgia and admiration, because it is beautiful not only in the finished version, but also during the entire process of creating a product. It is ...

What would Disney princesses look like if they were painted during the Renaissance? To imagine this, let`s look at the work by artist Heather Theurer. The artist created a series of portraits of popular Disney characters in the form of classic paintings. Here is Merida from Brave. This is ...

She added things at hand to her drawings and became well-known around the world. Kristina Webb, a young artist from New Zealand, became popular around the globe after she posted a series of unusual drawings on social networks. In addition to paper and pencils she used flower petals, fruit, pencil ...

Lyubov Nikitina is an amazingly versatile artist. She paints pictures, draws illustrations, creates sculptures and is engaged in various types of art. Each of her work is a whole story, it is the most accurately conveyed thought and the highest quality performance that Lyubov achieves by ...

Dear readers, I invite you to proceed the exhibition of excellent costumes from "The Dressmaker" film. This article is the second part of my, if I may say so, report from the costume exhibition held in Canberra (Australia) in summer 2019. Start here>>> Fashion of 1950s ...

This year my vacation in Canberra coincided with three interesting exhibitions. I want to share with you my impressions. The first exhibition I am going to talk about is devoted to the wonderful outfits of Dressmaker film characters, shot in Australia in 2015 (shown in Russia in 2016). This film is ...

Daria Artemyeva, an illustrator, often chooses "cartoon" style in her work, harmoniously combining background photos with drawn characters. One of Dasha's projects is portraits of Disney princesses and their halves in real life. Snow White posing for a selfie, Jasmine doing yoga, ...

When reading the novel "Crime and Punishment" a couple of years ago, I was struck by the age of mother of an ill-fated student Raskolnikov, who acquired the possibility of moral rebirth in painful and brutal way. I saw Pulkheria Alexandrovna as an elderly woman, whose destiny is to live ...