Sketch, sketch, composition
 

The Birth of the picture.
Is not it the appearance of images on the canvas like a miracle! By the will of the artist's ordinary piece of coarse gray cloth is transformed into a picture - vivid images of life!
How to have a picture? How many artists, so many different ways. And yet - there is something in common.
First, something prompts an artist to create paintings - vivid impression, a strong sense of giving impetus to creativity.
However, the artist did not immediately begin writing the picture. Idea first emerged, he passes in the outline of the original sketches, numerous sketches. From conception to the embodiment of the picture are hours, or even years of hard work.
How is born idea, and how it is embodied in a work of art?

«Bible sketches Alexander Ivanov».
     Biblical sketches - the final chord of creative biography of Alexander Ivanov. The wizard worked on them the last decade of his life - in late 1840-1850-ies. Biblical songs were to become a public building murals, a kind of temple of wisdom, which he represented himself as "the result of all faiths who are placed on the analysis of the last nation on Earth.

NK Roerich

Elders (first sketch).
.. Elders (second sketch
Fraying elders "(1898, oil on canvas, 155 x 280)

Sometimes he pulls on the sketch itself the role of paintings, sketches and sometimes never translated into the final plan!

Appearance of Christ to the people. Initial sketch
Appearance of Christ to the people. "Stroganoff" sketch

Baptism of Christ
The Baptism of Christ
1473-1475
Oil and tempera on panel.
180 x 152 cm (70 1 /4 x 59 1 /4 inches)
Gallery Ufitsi, Florence, Italy

Sketches of the war.

Interesting links Boyarynya Morozova "
 

Leonardo da Vinci.
 

St. Anne with Mary and baby
and John the Baptist, who was on the sketch, but not migrated into the picture. :)

Sketches, sketches Henry Semiradsky.

"Eternal Rest"
 

Very much I love this picture!

Expressive turned out sketches for the painting "Above the Eternal Peace" in 1893. At the same time a sense of loneliness and helplessness in the picture Levitan is not overwhelming. Together with its imagery of living and other experiences of the artist, giving a great sheet, compared with a sketch, more philosophical calm and courageous emotional-metaphorical sense. Dovovlno strict and very clear composition canvases. Majestic sky in the painting, which elevates the head of a chapel with a sparkle teplyaschimsya in the window, bringing into the picture along with a sense of solitude and peace of the graves "heartfelt thoughts" of the artist on "light that darkness does not embrace, the eternal thirst for warmth, faith, hope, flame which again and again, century after century, "like a candle from a candle" lit people.

The work on the painting Levitan began in the village Garusova under Vishny Volochek Udomelskogo on the shore of the lake, is probably the only one of its "composed" landscape that is not based entirely on full-scale experiences, as well as to "assembled piece by piece, assembled from different designs. Already contemporaries Levitan argued, what place he portrayed in his painting, expressing different assumptions. Exact answer is no, and now, and so does this matter? It is not a specific kind of wondering if Levitan, and the embodiment of the transience of human life and the eternal life of nature. "Eternity is, terrible eternity, which drowned generation and sink more ... What a horror, the fear! "- Such are the thoughts of the artist pursued at the time of writing, painting.