Metamorphosis of color on the female figure

Today we introduce you to the artist Ksenia Dosang, who will tell about herself.
I painted the first picture in 2012. I just bought paints, sat down and in 4 hours redrawed the photo in oil. It was a naked female figure leaning toward the viewer. I realized that the method that had opened up for me was absolute freedom of expression of myself.
In my youth I wanted to paint, but I stopped, thinking that I needed to paint landscapes and still lifes. And it seemed to me difficult. Based on such a chain of thoughts, I once chose a photo.
Honestly, it is still an important tool for me in creating the reality of my paintings. For 13 years of my immersion in a photo, I have gone from an analog classic (I still know how to exercise and print films) to newly acquired instant photo cards. I am one hundred percent visual, if we talk about the channels of perception. So the role of the sketchbook I now have a camera. And ideas for paintings that I found everywhere are stored in albums, in albums in a smartphone, or I collect some processed images in a notebook.

For me, this is a continuous process - inspiration, as people call it. I do not feel something fleeting and elusive. On the contrary - every moment and my presence in it are interwoven into a dense canvas of meanings and symbols. Each of which has its own meaning. And I can take it out of reality and transfer it to the canvas.

I have an interesting relationship with the text about this. Sometimes at the time of reading one of the lines is knocked out of the total thickness of the letters. I imagine it as an illustration in the volume books for children. And in the inner space of imagination a future picture is layered in layers.

The most important thing for me at this moment is to slow down and just let the image appear. This is comparable to the fact that instead of redrawing and erasing a sketch with an eraser, find such your own personal Zen and slowly and gradually make precise movements on the canvas. Approach the picture, thinking about each next movement.
I am extremely happy in each of these moments. Anticipation of a huge amount of work seems to me to climb the mountain. And here I stand at the foot and look, contemplating the summit.

But the most interesting thing is that from the top a completely different view opens up. Every time, completing a new picture, I want to scream. From delight, from pride, from happiness, from tears in the throat, from relief, from pleasure. From a full chest, from exhalation. At this point, complete loss of air and pause in the chest. Then to take a breath - to a new happiness, to a new pleasure, to a new delight, to the next new picture.

Now I paint with acrylic. I was introduced to him last year in an intuitive drawing course. And I found it most effective both for myself as an artist, and for buyers of my paintings. I can create any effects from pastozo, as if applying oil directly to the canvas, to watery watercolor sketches. And acrylic dries quickly enough. The buyer gets his picture varnished and ready to baguette, without having to wait up to six months. As, for example, in the case of oil painting.

Now I am most interested in working with how the light falls on the color, how it changes it. And the main motive of my paintings is the metamorphosis of color on the female figure. Speaking more broadly, I am extremely interested in how each person breaks reality. In the literal and figurative sense. For me, the final images are fantastically curious. Narrowing meaning - images on canvases. And the thought that now makes me happy is that at the end of 2019 I open my own gallery. I want to put in one place the thoughts of intellectual artists expressed through paintings.