OLEG KRYLOV
Unique painting on porcelain · Water-colours · Oil on canvas

 Saint-Petersburg, Russia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The peculiarities of painting on porcelain

The painting on porcelain is realized by ceramic paints which are fixed by baking in muffle kiln under the temperature 750° - 850° C.

The porcelain layer needs to be baked 10-12 times to create portrait and figure painting. The process of heating and cooling the kiln takes 10 hours, so only baking in the kiln takes about 120 hours.

Paints are put by the smallest strokes and every layer is scrupulously worked through again and again for every 10-12 bakings. It gradually intensifies light and colours. Therefore, increasing of layer dimensions needs considerably more effort.

Paints change their colours in the fire and especially colouring of flesh colours. Thus, the sensible picture of human body is the most complicated task of the porcelain painting.

The mistake fixed by baking is practically impossible to be corrected. Talking about colouring you can't see anything while you are creating and when it has baked and seen you can realize that nothing can be changed.

It is said, 'You can't see while creating and you are not allowed to make a mistake'.

Because of these problems the artists of the last centuries simplified there tasks and reproduced compositions of other authors in the miniature or on the porcelain layers of big dimensions.

So, the author's figure painting on porcelain layers which basically differs in dimensions from miniature is the further step in the development of this kind of art. And for the first time it has been realized by the artist from St Petersburg Oleg Krylov.

It is expressed in the referents of the State Hermitage Museum, signed by Academician B.B. Piotrovsky.