" Russian Vityaz " 120 mm

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It is one their last masterpieces from " Russian Vityaz ".
On a site it is specified in section of novelties of 2008 as " the Big miniature ":
http: // ruvit.ru/ru/pages/399/? % 3E
The size of 120 mm.

The full name of a miniature:
" Smart departure of the Chinese commander the elephant. XIV century. "

Authors:
The sculptor: Michael Polsky - crew (you could see separately)
Victor Grachev - the elephant
The artist: Yulia Moshura
 

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GEEEEEEZZZZ! That is nice. The pearlecent paint on the parisol, the paterning that continues into the sleeve on the parisol holder, the sheer scale of this thing........stunner! Fun piece and of course a joy to the eye as far as paintwork goes. Well done!

Jay H.
OKC
 
Quite stunning piece. Simply wonderful work. The work on the Mahouts tunic does it for me.

Bluesking Its not their special eyes, I am sure it the special paint brushes as my brushes dont seem to work as well as theirs do.
Don
 
The thing that amazes me about every one of the figures or vignettes that I see come out of this group is the contrast of quality between the patterned fabrics and then the figures themselves.

Perhaps they minimize the effort on the flesh and animal to bring more attention to the detail work.

The fabrics, patterns, and all those things absolutely blow me away. I don't think 1000 years of practice would help me achieve that level of quality and detail. But then I look at the elephant and know without a doubt that I could paint it much more realistically. It almost looks like they just base coated it and then drybrushed the high spots. Very simplistic. I think it would add much more to the scene if the elephant had the level of realism as the rest.

Anyone feel the same way, or am I all wet?

Cheers!

John
 
Welcome to the dark side of figure painting.
They where on the crossroads and sold there soul to the devill.
Amazing work.
It is gonna be time that they tell us how they do it.

Sergey: The link doesn't work.

Marc
 
I sold my soul to the Devil, Art. All I got was a fifty cent brush from K-Mart.....
Since the Russians are silent about their technique I guess we're going to have to kidnap
one and make him/her watch Dr. Phil until they reveal how they do it....
 
john17 said:
The thing that amazes me about every one of the figures or vignettes that I see come out of this group is the contrast of quality between the patterned fabrics and then the figures themselves.

Perhaps they minimize the effort on the flesh and animal to bring more attention to the detail work.

The fabrics, patterns, and all those things absolutely blow me away. I don't think 1000 years of practice would help me achieve that level of quality and detail. But then I look at the elephant and know without a doubt that I could paint it much more realistically. It almost looks like they just base coated it and then drybrushed the high spots. Very simplistic. I think it would add much more to the scene if the elephant had the level of realism as the rest.

Anyone feel the same way, or am I all wet?

Cheers!

John
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John,

I'm with you on this. I've noticed the same thing for several years now and it kind of turns me off to these figures. It seems like many of them are painted by pattern specialists who can paint mind-blowing patterns but then the fundamentals of figure painting, like a good face for example, are lacking. The detail work is amazing though . . .

Jason
 
Agreed, Jason, et al. I usually think these Russian releases must come from a different origin than what we in this hobby think of as historical miniatures. The emphasis is on dazzling patterns and they do that extremly well. However, the figures themselves, as some have mentioned, are usually quite stiff and usually suffer some on the realism of the skin tones and overall feel. I think these figures have root in the tin soldier arena because I'm always reminded of that stiff style when I see these figures.

They are beautiful to see, but they're quite different than our usual thing aren't they?
 
Great painting, but to honest, if that elephant was moving in such a manner, those guys up top would be hanging on for dear life, Beautifully painted just too unrealistic.

Dave
 

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