Art Kaleidoscope

Pavlovo Posad artist Valeria Fadeyeva
Well-known in Russia and abroad, Pavlovsky Posad Shawl Manufacture turns 220 this year. Passing from the hands of a mature artist, young people learn from the older generation, and also contribute to the treasury of traditional design new techniques. They create their own specific stylization of flowers, leaves and grass, composite filling a square, technology, printing and coloring. Indeed, by studying the techniques of the traditional approach to drawing a shawl, each author brings something new: his attitude, unique signature and style. Noteworthy, this takes many years of painstaking work. And one of the best representatives of the traditional Russian art is a local artist Valeria Fadeyeva.
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Rainy cityscapes by Ching-Che Lin
Born in 1987 in Taipei, the capital of the island of Taiwan, Ching-Che Lin is a young and talented Chinese artist. Ching-Che Lin has created a series of street water color paintings depicting rainy cityscapes. And of course, people walking under their umbrellas, and driving their cars through the misty streets. According to Lin Ching-Che rainy days inspire him with their breathing contrasts of pleasant melancholy and sadness, bright colors and incredible tranquility.
Talented 27-year-old artist Ching-Che Lin has received recognition as watercolorist worldwide, participating in solo exhibitions in his native country and abroad.
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Hyperrealistic Rainscapes by Elizabeth Patterson

American artist Patterson received specialized education in the late seventies of the last century. She was a graduate of the College of Art and Design in her native Minneapolis. For a long time, Elizabeth worked as an illustrator, hoping to completely switch to painting. According to the artist, the idea could not turn into reality for a long time. However, since 2001, the year of her hyper realistic paintings found approval with the public and critics. The appearance of a series of paintings entitled «Rainscapes» finally opened to the world the true master of fine arts.
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Fisherman painter Mark Susinno
Born in 1957 in Washington D.C., Mark Susinno is a talented American artist. Since childhood he has lived in Brooklyn (New York), and in 1979 Mark graduated with honors from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Meanwhile, prior to 1985, he worked in the areas not related to art. In particular, he worked as a a torch-cutter, a truck driver, and at plant manufacturing bulletproof doors, etc. However, in 1986, he took part in the Competition Maryland Trout Stamp contest and won it. Since Mark is a true fisherman, he devoted his life to professional painting, specializing in fish and scenes from the life of fishermen. Mark has created numerous fishing stamps, including the 1991 First-of-State Pennsylvania Trout/Salmon Stamp and the 2005 First-of-State Texas Freshwater Stamp.
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Silk paintings by Natasha Foucault
Born in Russia, Natasha Foucault is a young and beautiful artist. According to Natasha, she spent all her youth in Moscow, where she graduated from the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts. First, she worked with such etching and ceramics, and then started painting with dyes on silk. And now she is the author of silk paintings, still lifes, landscapes and fantastic figures.
In 1995 she had a solo exhibition of her silk painting and wearable art at the Silk Museum in Holland. She received second prize at the First International Silk Painting Congress in 1998 for Excellence in Silk Painting and The Best of the Show Award both at 2004 and 2006 Silk-In-Santa Fe Festivals. Natasha’s works on silk – exhibited and sold in both museums and commercial galleries throughout the world. In addition, Natasha’s silk paintings are in private collections in Europe, Canada, and the United States.
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African painting Tingatinga
Born in Africa in 60s of the twentieth century, Tingatinga got its name from its founder, Eduardo Saidi Tingatinga. Born in 1932, he grew up in a poor peasant family in a village Nakapanya, in southern Tanzania. By the way, according to some sources, the year of his birth is 1937. We can only guess what exactly made Eduardo draw – memories of village life or fairy tales and myths, which he had heard from his grandparents. Or, perhaps, European colorful posters or images of Hindu deities, he had seen in the shops and houses where he worked, or simply need to make money.
The fact is, before he painted his first pictures on cardboard, he had drawn on the walls of houses.
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