Nikolai Blokhin: Russian Master Portraits

painting shading paint portrait oilpainting In this video Nikolai Blokhin will demonstrate the fundamental stages of the portrait painting process.
The angles and closeup details of the camera are extraordinary as you watch this painting unfold.
his multitude of brushes using a scraper tool and his fingers is amazing! Born in 1968 in Saint Petersburg Russia this young master has emerged as one of the most important artists of his time.
Trained first at the district art school before entering the Repin Institute Blokhin attained a solid academic foundation in art which can be traced admired and interpreted today in some of Russias famous masters from the turn of the 20th century.
While cultivating ideals realised by many of his predecessors in Russian art theory Blokhins search towards a traditional expressive language consumed him in his early academic years.
It was not until he entered the Academy of Arts that he began to search the canons of those who broke with tradition and shook up thematic artistic views that he found his own distinct style.
His ability has not gone unnoticed including the Grand Prize at the American Society of Portrait Artists 2002 competition at New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art and Grand Prize from the Portrait Society of America Boston in 2004. Nikolai Blokhin art: Subscribe to my channel so you never miss a new video: Music Heavenly by Aakash Gandhi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

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