Sketch, sketch, composition

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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.