BLOUDER Art
VLAD YASHIN
Vlad Yashin is an artist from Moscow, Russia. He started drawing realistic portraits of people in 2016. He is selftaught, learned all techniques on his own. Until this year, the objects of his drawings were bloggers or his favorite celebrities, who often notice and support his work. This list includes A-list celebrities such as Kylie Jenner, Cardi B, Kim Kardashian, Finn Wolfhard and so on. He usually draws his pieces with 48 BLOUDER
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colored pencils and soft pastel but recently he fell in love with oils. “The process of working with oil is long from 1.5 to 3 months,” he mentioned. “I can say it’s like a long communication with a person for many hours.” He is very interested in painting technically complex elements, such as eyes, hair, beard, pores. He said, “This is such a moment of testing yourself: can
I picture them as I planned?” He also adores adding surrealistic elements to the picture that make it deeper and more interesting. He added, “Now I’m working on my first ever oil series: I’m painting actors covered in Gzhel (Russian style of ceramics). By these details I wanted to show the essence of some people - artificially painted on the outside and completely empty inside, like vases painted in Gzhel.”
