N.G.Shilder, Motherhood

[Ivan Petrov]

Incidentally Nosov also described in detail the work ostromodnye Nikas >

The day started with the fact that
Tube painted a portrait of a snowflake. He spent on the case for nearly two hours, but
but the portrait was as alive. The resemblance was striking. Although many
said that the portrait Snowflake turned out even better than in real life, but
this is not true. Snowflake does not need to embellish the artist
it. If the tube was able to set off the beauty of the portrait of her features and show them brighter
and expressive, then this is required of this art, which
is painting.

At this time the tube Sineglazka finished portrait. Everyone crowded around and
vied with each other to express their appreciation:
     - Wonderful! Charming! Fascinating!
     - Darling, you can not draw me in the blue dress? -
Samotsvetik turned to the tube.
     ~ How in the blue, when you're in the green? - He asked, wondering Tube.
     - Well, my dear, you are in fact all the same. Green dress, and you draw
blue. I would put on a blue dress, if I had known that so well Sineglazka
get in blue.

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- Well, - has agreed to a tube.
     - And my eyes, please do blue.
     - Do you have brown eyes because - said tube.
     - Well, my dear, that you should! If you can instead of a green dress
to blue, then why instead of brown eyes can not make blue?
     - There is a difference, - said tube. - If you want, you can
wear a blue dress, but her eyes you at all desire not insert themselves blue.
     - Oh, yes! Well, then, please, do brown eyes, but they draw
more.
     - You are already very large eyes.
     - Well, a little bit! I would like to have even more. And make eyelashes
longer.
     - Okay.
     - And do the golden hair. I see almost golden hair!
- Pleading voice asked Samotsvetik.
     - It is possible, - agreed Tube.
     He started drawing a poetess, and she kept jumping up, ran up
to the portrait and shouted:
     - Eyes a little more! More, more, more! Eyelashes add! Mouth
a little less ... More, more!
     The upshot was that the eyes in the portrait turned out great, and what not
happens, the mouth - a pinhead, hair - like pure gold, and
whole portrait was very vague resemblance. But the poet he is
like, and she said that she and a better portrait gift is not necessary.

Gently holding his portrait, Samotsvetik went down, and her
immediately surrounded the baby. Everyone said that her picture on beauty
better portraits Snowflakes and Sineglazka, but it is much similarity
worse.
     - Silly - said they Samotsvetik. - For you, what is more important -
beauty or similarities?
     - Of course, the beauty! - All answered.

These days, only one tube was sitting at home and painted portraits. Each baby
wanted to have a portrait, and they absolutely have tortured him with her demands.
Everyone always wanted to be the most beautiful. In vain Tube argued
that everyone is beautiful in their own way, and that even small eyes may be too
beautiful. No! All baby demanded that necessarily had big eyes,
long eyelashes, eyebrows arch, a small mouth. Eventually Tube stopped
argue and painted as required of him. It was much more convenient
because it does not cause any unnecessary wrangling and also Tube noticed
that can lead to the rationalization of the portrait is.
     Since everyone wanted the same thing, so decided to make a tube
called a stencil. Taking a piece of stiff paper, he cut through it a couple of
large eyes, long, arched eyebrows, straight, very elegant nose,
small sponge chin with a dimple on the sides of a couple of small,
neat ears. Fluffy hair cut from the top, bottom - a thin neck and two
pens with long fingers. Having made such a cliche, he proceeded to
blank templates.
     What is a template, it will be clear to everyone now. With a stencil to a piece
paper tube smeared with red paint is where in the stencil was cut
lips. On paper, one is immediately drawing lips. After that, he stained
body paint nose, ears, hands, then light or dark hair, brown or
blue eyes. Thus we get the templates.
     Those patterns tube done a few. If the baby had blue
eyes and blond hair, he took a template with blue eyes and blond
hair, add a little bit of similarity, and the portrait was ready. If y
baby had hair and dark eyes, then the tube and in this case there was
pattern.
     Such stereotyped portraits painted tube set. It
improve greatly accelerates performance. Besides Tube realized that
template made by hand of an experienced master, one can punch
procure templates, and involved in this business a string bag. String bag with success
paint over a stencil templates desired colors and patterns were produced nothing
no worse than those which were made by hand of the tube. Such a separation
labor between the tubes and string bags further accelerating the work that had
great meaning, as the number wishing to commission a portrait is not reduced,
and increasing day by day.
     Avoska very proud of his new post. Of tubes and to himself he
said with pride: "We - the artists." But the tube was not satisfied with his
work and called her a reason potboiler. He said that of all the portraits,
which he painted in the green city, works of art
can be considered only portraits Snowflakes and Sineglazka, other suitable
only to have to cover their pots and pans.
     This opinion is not shared, however, owners of portraits. All
like the fact that they turned out beautifully, and the similarities, they said - it
armistice. You can look at all the different ways.