[Mikhail]

This was not the first custom portrait, and the fourth, and every artist I saw on your not so what I represented myself, "handsome with scorchingly black hair."
With Natto on June 1999, I was familiar and a half months when a friend learned that I will have drawn Natta, all asking the same question: - "Are not you afraid?"
 "... And something to fear, I see myself every day in the bathroom mirror," ", the point I am at this stupid smile.
In mid-June, after the birth Natta zapasshis Canvas: "import", dressed as vividly as possible, Aware, muted tones on Nattkinyh paintings, went to the studio in Nattke Yauza Gate in Serebryanicheskaya lane. Canvas took longer (610h457 mm), to please the artist.
- Ooh! Cardboard is imported - said Nattka. - Well, let's sit down, and it will be dark,
 Rasshtorila approached the window, dramatically throwing back the curtains, and those two dark wings fell revealing a window sill.
- Vooo I'm here, this is a stuffed swan bought. Expensive to give.
So sit down here, so ... take off your sweater, so it Naquin, here ... hug a swan vooo ...
For Natta necessarily long pose, she talks to you and draws, as you seem to not looking at the canvas, then do not look at you like and forget about you, painted on canvas in places where only she knows ... and here a long time she looks at me and the team ...
Hands-take away ...
-Where do I'll take them?
"Well, hide it somewhere ... Up Your Sleeves in sweaters. And then my fingers you still draw ...
I obediently complied with the team.
Hod is needed, is too small ... "talantik", here he Vic - the talent, you had had to draw a portrait.
(Later I did it, he wrote, Viktor Krotov on the recommendation of natto.)
Now I understand that Natta says about the move, when the course is found and the most like what it has done ...
And so the portrait seemed to be finished and I Swan neck, arm in arm, Nattka hangs it on the wall for the sunbed.
Must-dry, all right, then zaberesh ...
Nutt, what are you to me rolled her eyes, like a repentant Mary Magdalene ...
-So what. Titian could afford, and that I can not ....
After these words, I do not know what to say. What do you say Natta law, "all versed in the art and may indicate the artist (remember Efimov, from the film" Promised Heaven) "
Nutt, as long as I have you for a portrait,
- Then, let dry, and I was taking the job ...
We had to pick up no matter what.
 because then resulted in a different way: the swan, white with a long neck, was plotted, wound at this point sweater and pririsovana backrest in the form of standing dogs, long haired dachshund Dusi. It was a new course in the portrait, and inserted into the picture, for the joy his eyes, his master. In his hand through the sweater I had carved spoon firebird with a tail in the form of an oak leaf. For a back seat to the left side of the Archangel Michael slaying a reptile, and the right collage filled up the coins in a glass box ...
From the "custom" it was the best portrait of me.