24.08.13 09:14 PM

Elena Zhuravskaya, the artist - a lover of Kiev, uses fish bones and even their eyes in order to collect the amazing paintings on velvet canvases. Now her work is almost unknown outside of her country, but in the future it will disperse the talent around the world.

Elena's Zhuravskaya architect of Kiev, a very interesting hobby: it uses the remains of fish to create detailed pictures, like pictures of ivory.

But unlike ivory, which is mined illegally heartless poachers, fish bone - a very common resource.

Helena - a self-taught artist. Inspired by such a hobby, she began looking for a more optimal method of treatment of the bones, so to them it was easier to work with.

The artist says that working with such subtle elements - a very laborious process, but the result is impressive. The work of Helen Zhuravskaya repeatedly appeared before the judges of Ukrainian art in the galleries.

The family of Ukrainian artist Elena Zhuravskaya to the table every day and serves fish: bream, carp, silver carp, herring, pike ... And it's not that the fish are preferred to other products. Elena Zhuravskaya - author of unique paintings, which consist of fish bones, scales and even fish eyes, carefully crafted, polished and coated with pearlescent paint. She taught this art alone, and now every day improved in his unusual hobby, and exhibitions of her paintings are extremely popular and always crowded. No joke, this beauty, but only fish bones.

Unusual destinations fish bones found Kiev artist Elena Zhuravskaya. It creates an elegant picture of them. In the course are not only bone, but also fish eyes, and scales.

It's hard to believe that these graceful tracery-work made of such banal material. One must possess a distinctive flair to make the bones of fish brush ash, chrysanthemum, sailfish, rooster or a landscape.

Elena works uncomplicated tools: nail file, toothpick, scissors, a brush. Bone is a good boil, then pearlescent paint colors for nails and sticks to the velvet.

She catch fish, eat it myself, and even create a picture of the bones. Carp, pike, catfish - each raised fish bones - unique. One - as a rose petal, another - a feather from a rooster tail.

The impetus for creativity occurred seven years ago. We rested on the sea and met girls from Kiev Sophia Grigorevnoj Frankfurt. She is interested in floristry and other techniques, including she had had several jobs lined with fish bones. I have seen and caught fire.

Now I am myself from time to time I spend master classes. And then no one taught me, so - do not mess up, just before she reached. Boil, sorting, looking for unusual lines. Today there are a lot of their secrets.

I am often asked about it: "How can you bend them?". And I said, "Look, a fish because almost no flat bones." I especially appreciate the warped. Once I caught carp with the broken and wrong Conjoined ridge, elegant item is received.

But for some reason no one asks me how I align bones. In the works "Vudubickiy" and "Scottish castle" It took me a lot of it is flat parts. I'm an architect by profession and demands for precision threshold was raised here.

Look at this here on peas. Pea is a fish-eye lenses. When their long digested, they rogoveyut. And with a flourish long time to experiment. They are too thin bones of the fish. Spent a lot of material until the desired result achieved .

The main thing to have enough material. And to know the secret of how to show the texture by painting white on black.

To make this picturesque scene to move, or, as I say - play - seeds must be of the same species but of different sizes. Then we can make the prospect. All you need for this work - bone, PVA glue, nail polish and desire.