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Elena Bazanova is a talented artist from Russia whose paintings have gained worldwide fame. Elena works in one of the most complex painting techniques - watercolor. Her paintings amaze with naturalness and realism. Bazanova's still lifes are saturated with color and filled with life. Spectators freeze at her canvases.
Biography of Elena Bazanova
The artist was born on November 16, 1968 in the Leningrad region. The girl grew up as a creative person. From childhood, she was fond of drawing. Parents developed their daughter's abilities and at the age of six took her to an art school in her hometown of Slantsy. Young Lena was so captivated by watercolor painting that at an early age she decided to connect her life with art. The teachers of the art studio immediately saw the potential in the girl and recommended her parents to enter the Art School of St. Petersburg.
In 1986, a young and talented artist Elena Bazanova became one of the best graduates of the Secondary Art School at the Academy of Arts (today - Academic Art Lyceum named after B. Ioganson).
In the same year, she was enrolled in the book graphics workshop of the Academy of Arts (I. E. Repin Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture), which she graduated in 1992.
Being a student at the Academy, artist Elena Bazanova started illustrating children's books (since 1996).
Starting from 1989, St. Petersburg publishing houses began to actively invite a talented artist to work.
In 1995, Elena was admitted to the Union of Artists of Russia.
And in 2006 she joined the St. Petersburg Society of Watercolors.
Today the Artist Elena Bazanova and her watercolors are known all over the world. The canvases of the St. Petersburg craftswoman adorn private collections not only in Russia, but also in Germany, France, England, Iceland and a number of other foreign countries.
The watercolorist's still lifes are exhibited in galleries in Kazakhstan, the USA, the Netherlands, etc.
Elena's paintings are multiple winners of various competitions and festivals. They amaze the audience with their freshness, liveliness and realism.
The piggy bank of achievements of the artist Elena Bazanova is full. She received her first award at the 1st International Biennale in 1999, becoming the laureate of the 1st degree.
2008 Elena's illustration won the Grand Prix at the 4th International Graphic Biennale BIN-2008.
In 2014, Bazanova with her watercolor entered the final of the 1st world watercolor competition "The World Watercolor Exhibition", held in France.
Love for painting
Sowords of the artist, she loved watercolor from birth. “I feel it,” Elena says in an interview. The still life master claims that she grew and matured along with watercolor. Learning new techniques and mastering the techniques of working with this difficult material, she felt her own strength and fell more and more in love with painting.
Artistic techniques
The professional development of the artist Elena Bazanova, according to her, was influenced by the works of such masters of painting as Karl Bryullov, Fyodor Tolstoy, Andrew Wyeth.
Studying the work of masters of art, she, nevertheless, did not create idols for herself.
Elena works with her own technique. It seems that she paints pictures not with a brush, but with her soul and heart. The artist's canvases are so sincere and lively.
Most of her work Elena performs in wet technique. Very often in the process of drawing techniques are mixed. "I use the canvas as I need - wet, wet or dry," says the master.
Besides watercolor, Elena owns many other painting techniques that she studied while studying at the Academy.
During illustrations, for example, she often uses ink, pen and colored pencils.
Illustration
While still a student, Elena began to make illustrations for children's books commissioned by St. Petersburg publications. To date, her experience in this area is quite large.
The master approaches each work individually. Her illustrations are not the same. Execution techniquedrawings and materials are selected by Bazanova in accordance with the text and style of writing the book.
Her graduation project titled "Don't listen - don't listen" was an illustration of Stepan Pisakhov's fairy tale "Frozen Wolves".
2008 Elena Bazanova and her large-scale project - an illustration of L. Carroll's book "Alice in Wonderland" - won the Grand Prix of the International Biennale. This work is filled with experiments and a stream of creative inspiration. Making illustrations for the fairy tale, the artist Elena Bazanova skillfully combined ink, pen, watercolor and colored pencils in a harmonious ensemble, thanks to which the craftswoman managed to achieve visually additional volume and realism of the paintings.
Elena admits that she dreams of illustrating the book "The Chronicles of Narnia", but so far she does not have enough free time for this large-scale work.
Teaching activities
Once Elena was offered to participate in a seminar on watercolor technique, which was held in Germany. Seeing the keen interest of the audience in her work, the still life master decided to share her experience with colleagues and art lovers at her master classes. Artist Elena Bazanova is also writing a book on watercolor painting techniques and has published a scientific article "The Elements of Water and Paint" in the collection "Technologies of Fine Arts", which is recommended by the Ministry as a textbook for art academies.
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