Red Poppies handpainted necklace

Beautiful poppies painted by hand on mother of pearl pendant.Hand made and painted by hand in my Italy based studio.
Unique wearable fine art.

 You can find it in my Etsy shop, HERE

Nature inspired jewelry: Little Bird and Flower handpainted ring

This lovely handmade ring is from my "Nature Inspired Jewelry" collection.

Ring feature beautiful little bird painted by hand on mother of pearl. Antique silver ring base with floral motives perfectly compliments mother of pearl cabochon. Adjustable ring base. 

You can find this ring on sell in my Etsy shop, HERE

Autumn Jewelry: new necklace "Green leaves"

This necklace is from my new collection Fall/Winter 2013: "Green leaves".

 

Green Leaves

Hand made and hand painted in my Italy based studio.
High quality mother of pearl and 16K gold plated brass pendant.Perfectly fits for everyday wearing, wedding or any other occasion.Sweet and luminous!

Mother of pearl diameter: 20mm.

The total length of the necklace is 16 inch.

Usa TV shows my jewelry!

 This is emai I recived today from
JEWELRYMAKING TV in USA :

Helllo Evelina,

Just a quick note to let you know the segment about you and your gorgeous art is now posted on our site and I have received some nice emails about your work.

Thank you for being part of our show.

One last comment, your husband is a very lucky man!!!


You can see video here:

MINIATURE PAINTING ON MOTHER OF PEARL

The art of painting in miniature has developed into many different techniques(for example, tempera or oil on papier-mache, watercolor on ivory ,oil on mother-of-pearl),the last of these is my favorit technique.

Miniature painting on mother-of-pearl calls for exceptionally sharp eyes and dextrous hands.To complete a single miniature,the painter spends an average of 40 hours,peering attentively througt the magnifier.

After a first visual appreciation of the colours needed for her task, the painter composes her palette, preparing paint mixes, which will be maintained and modified as the need arises.She then reshapes her brushes. Its bristles made from hair of a marten, as none available on the market are fine enough for this art. She will get through at least 10 and as many as 20 such brushes before the painting is finished.Given that miniature painting needs total concentration and sometimes up to 70 hours of meticulous work under the magnifying glass, the painter’s rule is to start with the most difficult details. In a portrait, the eyes and the facial features are dealt with before anything else.
The search for the right shade is a constant challenge; the artist has to identify the dominant colour of each detail of the subject. The base colour for each element is painted on uniformly to prevent the mother-of-pearl showing through.
The base shade is applied and the other colours are progressively blended in to achieve the desired gradation and nuances. Many extremely fine additional layers are then applied, yet the completed painting is hardly five hundredths of a millimetre thick.
The miniature has to pass through the kiln several times to dry each layer of paint, so that a new layer of colour can be painted on. Repeated drying also minimises the wet paint’s exposure to dust, which can ruin the work. The paint takes between 30 and 60 minutes to dry — depending on its thickness — in a 100° C kiln. Particularly complex subjects need up to 60 passages in the kiln. The completed painting is finally baked for five hours to prepare it for finishing.
A transparent lacquer is now delicately applied over the whole dial surface. Five layers are needed to apply 0.15mm of lacquer. The miniature is then dried in the kiln for 24 hours, before being smoothed on disks to reach its final thickness. After cleaning, the lacquer is polished to its full brilliance. Finally, the miniature can be mounted on fine textures manufactured with gold and precious stones of coloured transparency that emphasize and give glow to the painting.

ABOUT MINIATURE PAINTING

                                                                 

The miniature holds a distinctive place amongst the visual arts, with its own unique characteristics .It involves several different genres: In miniature paintings we may find depictions of urban and pastoral landscapes, battles scenes, etc., but the most important subjects is the portrait. During the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe, portraits in miniature were placed on writing desks, hung on the walls of studies and boudoirs, fix into boxes, snuffboxes, the handles of walking sticks, medals rings, brooches and bracelets, all of which allowed the owner to always have an image of his loved ones at hand. Portraits of emperors and empresses, mounted in gold, silver and precious stones, were used as honors and decorations. Usually a portrait was commissioned in more than one copy; these copies were then presented to relatives and friends, although only the first copy was signed by the artist. The portrait had therefore the same role that later on was given to photography.