How did you
come to watercolors?
Six years
of study in Republican specialized music and art boarding school, specialty
graphic artist, six years of study in Tashkent Ostrovsky `s State Theatre and
Art Institute on poster department, at both Alma Mater the subject of the
painting at the department of graphic was taught only in watercolor. So this is
how I came, but first not to the watercolors, but via watercolor to oil. At the
end of training I shifted to easel painting. I returned to watercolors 5 years
ago.
Andrey Esionov
How do you
select a subject?
The plot is
built according to requirements of a classical composition, ie, I select a
theme and I work through searches, sketches, sometimes trial washes. The work
includes preliminary sketches without fail, if we talk about watercolors based
on complex composition.
Andrey Esionov
Which
colors in the palette are necessary for you?
Currently, no more than 12 colors: cadmium red,
kraplak, ocher, iron oxide, Naples
Andrey Esionov
Is there a
preference in the choice of paper, paints, brushes?
Paper by any
manufacturer of 600 g .
rough. Paints "White Nights" (Russia
How do your
individual features are manifested in your watercolors?
If you do
not copy off from other artists' works, and stay yourself, your personality
manifests as your personal painting style.
Do you
think that the easy "incompleteness" only benefit watercolor work?
I do not like the word "incompleteness".
If you mean, conscious use of paper white, untouched by paint, why not? If - it
does not interfere with the integrity of the picture, or the composition
solution, or just intuitively "delicious." If we go on the
impressionistic style of writing, so watercolor in my opinion is very thereto.
Andrey Esionov
Full version of the interview read in my new book in series "Masters Of Watercolor" - "On Both Sides of the Great Wall".
