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How are such fine patterns painted? Seems like it needs to be painted with a single hair..
It takes a long time. It's a very detail oriented work
What is your name?
Me? Aleksander
Aleksander Albertovich Kornilov, And I am Denis Aleksandrovich
Anna Aleksandrovna
- And what is your name? - I am Tatiana Ivanovna Kornilova - Nice to meet you
Your family has been artisans for how many generations?
This is already third generation
Denis already has a little one
- He has just turned 7 months. - And he'll also be an artist?
Or it's not clear yet?
His wife is also an artist. They went to school together
- Does every family in Palekh is artists? - More than half of people in Palekh are artists.
Many are now out of town making wall paintings in churches, all over the country...
Magadan, Vladivostok, Samara is been painted, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhny Novgorod...
Here I started working on this
You make here these type of scratches... a sketch...
Then you paint over the scatch with a brush and white paint... brushes are very fine
I see
We bind these brushes by ourselves
- Oh really? - Yes
After that you work over the whole piece, cover it with lacquer and paint with gold. Laborous work.
Painting jewelry boxes differs from paiting icons. With the box the gold is put on the lacquer layer.
With the icon gold is put directly on paint
What kind of paint do you use?
Paint? Our paint... tempera. On egg emulsion.
Powder paint - we blem it with egg emulsion. Our traditional technique.
- Which means that the paint is natural? - Yes. The pigment is natural.
Of course there is synthetic pigment, but it becomes obvious - it comes out very soon... especially the red colour, sienna
After the painting is done, all the details are worked through, the item is covered by lacquer and drained in a furnace.
After our item is drained, we polish it with pumice so that lacquer doesn't shine. We wipe it off.
Then we paint it with gold. After it's finished, we polish with wolf's tooth or agate.
That way the gold gets shine and looks good.
The whole item should be polished like this.
- It this a real wolf's tooth? - Yes. - Such a big ***!
There were hunting... Put it on the table... We had somewhere the whole jaw.
Yes, it out punched out of wolf on purpose
Jewelry boxes, are they gone into past?
I don't paint jewelry boxes as for now. I only paint icons and murals in churches.
Why gone? On the contrary, it is coming back now.
Still the demand for jewelry boxes is not too big. Mural paintings and icons are in demand now. Icons are behind murals, though.