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An artist has created a quirky canvas for her
fairytale-like paintings - the palm of her hand.
Svetlana Kolosova creates intricate and colourful scenes on her left
hand featuring whimsical characters from her imagination.
But they can only last one day before she has to clean them off.
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The 30-year-old from Moscow can spend between one and three hours
painstakingly applying the paint to her hand, depending on the
complexity of the picture.
She explains: 'I never had a goal to find an unusual canvas for
drawings.
'I have a lot of paintings on canvas and paper, but the drawings on the
palms of the hands I invented myself about five years ago.
Poet and songwriter Svetlana started by drawing Autumn scenes on maple
leaves but was inspired to use her hand by her own poems.
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'I wanted to draw Autumn scenes on leaves and in my poems leaves are
often compared with the palms so I thought why not use my hand as a
canvas?'
Svetlana first outlines her plans for the picture with a gel pen and
then uses watercolours to complete the painting.
Her scenes are inspired by authors such as Hans Christian Andersen and
Antoine de Saint Exupery, whose Little Prince makes an appearance in one
of the paintings.
Svetlana believes that another advantage of drawing on the body is that
the pictures are not static.
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'These pictures can move. If you compress or decompress your hand a
little or bend the fingers, then the painted angel tilts its head or
spreads its wings.
'But I do not call this body art. I draw only on the palms. And only in
order to create a living picture, in which the heart beats.'
Svetlana admits she feels sad when she has to cleanse her hand of the
image.
'Such pictures can only live one day, then they have to be washed a...' |
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