"PANCIES FLOWER" Drawing

Olesya Rapotkina is an artist. She calls herself a traditional artist with a modern touch. As an artist Olesya prefers to work in oil, oil pastels, watercolours, coloured pencils. Sometimes she makes collages. The main genres in which Olesya works are portrait, landscape, still life, animalistic. Olesya is inspired by life around, nature, flowers, animals, architecture and many other things. She loves to observe nature. Flowers are one of her favourite subjects. Every flower, fruit, tree, animal, person, etc. has its own character. And she likes to convey this character of characters in her works. Olesya’s artworks are colourful and emotional. She uses pastose stroke in oil, dynamic stroke in pastel, transparency and purity of colour in watercolour. Olesya explores different styles and does not like to stick strictly to one style. Adherence to one style, in her opinion, limits creative endeavours. Olesya uses high-quality canvases made of long-fibre linen and light-resistant pigments for oil painting. For watercolour she uses watercolour paper and watercolour canvases.