Painting by Nikolai Shurygin

Nikolai Shurygin was born in Kimry, Russia 1957th In 1979 he graduated from the Moscow Academy of Applied Arts (Style). For ten years the painter has multilayered painting studied, lost the secrets at the beginning of the XIX. This exclusive technologies was created by Flemish painter and Russian painter so Kiprensky, Levitsky, Borovikovsky and several other individuals. The uniqueness of the strategy is in the point that each and every color layer is visible by way of the layer above. With this method, the artist, the extraordinary realism of the depicted subject accomplished if a human face or a texture - silver, gold, brocade, fur, glass, and so on.